We are one emergency away from bankruptcy!
Political commentator and clergyman, Pastor Claude Skelton Cline has argued that persons in the BVI are living one paycheque and one emergency away from bankruptcy.
Appearing on his Honestly Speaking radio show recently, Skelton Cline said the government should institute a ‘social blanket’ to protect persons from this eventuality.
“We need to create a meaningful social blanket in this country. You have had people out all of 2021 — some 2020, use up all of their vacation days to cover this COVID-19 stuff, all of their sick days, and then they run out of days where you have to pay them and then they have to be out, they are out without pay,” Skelton Cline said.
Skelton Cline called on Labour Minister, Vincent Wheatley, to look into the issue and said systems need to be put in place for the social welfare of the BVI.
“When we are living one paycheque away from bankruptcy, one emergency away from bankruptcy. We can’t keep living like this. The stress is going to kill us,” he stated.
The clergyman further said those in leadership need to publicly explain the costs and rewards of a measure such as a social blanket and ensure that it is implemented.
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You didn’t know that when you were getting your big consultancy contracts for doing nothing. All of you all arenjust a bad set of people. You got nearly 300k for 18 months of doing nothing.
Has he been extradited to Detroit to go back home to his American gangster life?
The story is that half the people in the wealthy USA are in a similar position claude: most Americans don’t even have $500 cash in the bank
Why this MOFO don’t shut up? He done get all the Consulting Contracts he will be allowed to get now he biting the ✋ that fed him. Typical selfish, greedy, gluttonous individual. Ain’t nobody wants to hear you CSC unless it is about your Consulting Work Progress.
Building your country with a majority population of imported poverty,illiteracy and crimanilty for personal gain (votes) is the precursor to collapse with or without a pandemic.
No light ahead for the VI. Education is dismal.
The difference is,the US prints its own money. Qualified Citizens with miniscule can avail themselves of food assistance,mortgage assistance,medical asssistance,workmen comp, Soc Security,Grants,scholarships just to name a few…The employed pay Federal tax,Local tax,social security,tax on purchases including food in addition to other taxes unique to their residential location and circumstances.
The man making sense and all you people do is criticize. Boy we are so ignorant.
Let’s make BVI a welfare state. Just like Detroit. Need a Target to open up so we can loot that weekly too.
This pastor needs to be put out to pasture.
Looks like he is just looking for an angle to get more money out of Social Security for them to mismanage.
When you alone getting thousands in contract for producing nothing … of course we are one pay check away from poverty . Wasting taxpayers money which should have been in the reserved
Didn’t you & I do that in Detroit ?
is not now people living on paycheck to paycheck that is long time so you late you just finding out
my friend you could not FO choose a better name / now Mary some Krazy glue on your lips