The drastic problems with the Bahamas(a quick overview)

                                        
Granted every country has its own problems, but we can actually do something about it. Majority of the third world countries are in the state they are in for just a few reasons that we aren't affected by. First they are in a state of civil distress, Second a totalitarian government where only the "Higher-ups" reap all the benefits, Third they are a war torn country either from suffering from a recent war and has never recovered or the country is in distress from different militia factions trying to take over. We don't have any of those problems so whats the big deal? are we just unlucky? Are we incompetent? or is it because the majority of the Bahamian people only look out for themselves with this "imma get mine an you get yours" attitude, But how did we end up like this? Certainly we couldn't be born that way it doesn't work like that. The problem is pretty simple and straight forward. We are trying to be something we are not, but what do I mean exactly? are we pretending to be Bahamians? We TRY to act as if we are a solely independent country ever since we seceded from Britain. What exactly do we call our own? Tourism right? it must be tourism its our biggest industry and no one in the Atlantic comes close.Right? NONE of our hotels or main attractions are NOT Bahamian but we act like it right? Atlantis for example we may have some say over what Atlantis does or doesn't do but that's only a courtesy that Kerzner provided to us, We don't own Atlantis nor can we force them to hire Bahamian workers. We seem to cling onto our roots a little too strongly as pirates and when we want something we just take it. We are so dependent on Great Britain and United States its shocking really. Great Britain has its claws around our government and the US has its imperial power over our imports and exports. We STILL have a Governor General who reports to the Queen. Why do we need such a person, and why do we need to report to the privy council for our own internal matters?!? Great Britain who we have became independent from refuses us to carry out capital punishment, but why should we listen to them? Are we not our own entity? or are we just pretending to be? The USA has us in a constant choke hold, we rely on them for almost everything from the food we eat to the money in our treasury. We try to keep up with the USD but its only digging ourselves into a deeper hole, we refuse to admit we are in a state of crisis, and we try to put up a facade that we are so wealthy and rich that we are at the top of our game. The reason why we use the USD isn't as simple as people think, people think its to give tourist an easier time and spend more money right? WRONG, its to curb inflation which could be a real danger to us and send us into extreme poverty. We know that the USD is pretty much accepted anywhere with no hassle although it isn't the strongest dollar in the world. We know that if we can have the USD into circulation we don't have to print more money, and thus curbing inflation with another country's money. Its a scary thing really just imagine the US economy goes down the crapper (which it did and will happen again and again) and the USD drops drastically where it can't even sustain us, what do we do then? We don't have the export power to sustain us, at least not for very long, our main exports such as salt, and pineapples have been taken over by foreign companies, but wait why would we do that? because we don't want to do it ourselves so they come do it for us take most of the profits and slide a little to the government as a thanks for letting us abuse you. Our biggest projects recently aren't even paid for by us, its all borrowed money. If Bahamar goes under then the Chinese will own all of cable beach as collateral, but why would we do that? that's just crazy land is most important resource in the world no land means no production, because we want to pretend we are so rich and further cement ourselves as a tourist destination which is a service industry which solely relies on the spending power of others. We don't even have proper schooling our national average is a D, and lack of education is the base of all problems with society. Crimes, easily fooled, ignorance, lack of ambition, no innovation, and poverty just to name a few. all because of this thing called education, which we don't fully accommodate. College of the Bahamas doesn't offer a wide variety of fields large enough to create a big enough work force in a specific field, medicine for example you have to travel abroad to get an education these days, and what happens all the successful people stay where they studied because why not? more opportunities, they are already settled, and cheaper cost of living per se'. So what we have happening is a large number of unskilled workers all trying to find jobs which aren't enough to go around. The people who do come back sometimes can't even find a job because foreign workers have already taken that spot or they are "over qualified" which I find ironic. We can't blame government because we put them there, the people hold all the power don't like something take a stand for it, don't sit idly by because "I'm gettin' mines"