Father`s Day Bermuda Vacation
Today we'll be leaving on vacation for Bermuda, a country with a population just 10% larger than the city I live in, Bayonne, New Jersey. Despite those low numbers, Bermuda is the third most densely populated place on earth.
Interestingly, Bermudians follow my Mind-Your-Own-Business Rule as outlined in my article For God`s Sake Stop Helping the Poor; that is, they are the least generous in benefits and services to their senior citizens and the disabled of any developed country, which is one of the reasons Bermudians enjoy the third highest per capita income in the world (more than 50% higher than that of the US) (1).
If not for the world economic crisis, Bermuda would have been number one in per capita income in the world. By not squandering as much of their their money on entitlements as we do, Bermuda encourages their poor to go out and work, which results in fewer percentage poor than we have in the US and a middle class which is 35% larger. Since it does not have a futile, wasteful, self-defeating War on Poverty as we do, a surprising number of non-white Bermudians are millionaires (2). God knows how many poor blacks there will be in the US when Obama gets through with his policies.
We, and by we I mean my wife, my two sons, my two daughters-in-law, my two grand-daughters and I will be going on a 7 day cruise. I booked this cruise over a year ago when the Island had fewer Muslims. As I have written many times before, if there is more than one Muslim in a country then there is a danger that Islamic extremists will be able to hide among them. At least with the recent arrival of the four Uyghur Muslims there is no need to hide what they are.
Hopefully they will interpret being on an Island with thousands of beautiful, scantily clad houris, wine, song, and surrounded with beautiful waters as having already arrived in Paradise and therefore will not need to maim or murder an infidel in order to satisfy Jihad.
Caption for photo:
NY Times, Freed From Guantánamo
AN OCEAN IDYLL
Salahidin Abdulahat, left, and Khaleel Mamut, Uighur Muslims recently freed from Guantánamo Bay, swam in Bermuda on Sunday. Mr. Abdulahat said his first-ever ocean swim was "the happiest day of my life."
The men were among a larger group of Uighurs who had fled what they called Chinese persecution of Muslims in western China and spent part of 2001 in a Uighur camp in Afghanistan. They fled, apparently unarmed, when the Americans bombed the camp and were later turned in to the authorities by Pakistani villagers in return for an American bounty.
ENDNOTES
(1):
Cia World Factbook, Bermuda: Economy
Bermuda enjoys the third highest per capita income in the world more than 50% higher than that of the US. Its economy is primarily based on providing financial services for international business and luxury facilities for tourists. A number of reinsurance companies relocated to the island following the 11 September 2001 attacks and again after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 contributing to the expansion of an already robust international business sector. Bermuda's tourism industry - which derives over 80% of its visitors from the US - continues to struggle but remains the island's number two industry. Most capital equipment and food must be imported. Bermuda's industrial sector is small, although construction continues to be important; the average cost of a house in June 2003 had risen to $976,000. Agriculture is limited with only 20% of the land being arable.
(2):
Bermuda Online, Majority
Poor Bermuda 19 percent United States 24 percent Nearly poor Bermuda 11 percent United States 8 percent Middle income Bermuda 46 percent United States 34 percent Affluent Bermuda 24 percent United States 34 percent
