Cluck Cluck

Anyone reading this who has ever tried to cook a yard-fowl must know the pain and headaches it gives to make it palatable. The use of pressure cookers and a bevy of other culinary tricks have been utilized to add taste to this breed of bird. Sadly, most times, no matter what tricks have been used and how much heat used you can tell a yard-fowl from a proper bird. Yard-fowls now seem to be taking over the general society at large which means that for us all we will have to make do with a hard meal which is less than palatable at times.

Cost of living was an issue for years and one that we were promised would be controlled and lowered. In the last few years we’ve seen what is required to lower cost of living. Take money out of the treasury to fund an elaborate show for our 1^st Grammy winner; raise every conceivable tax(twice in some cases), lower NHC annual revenue by giving away the houses that we get income from and add taxation to credit unions and allowances  so now we have even less money to spend as everything goes up.

Yard-fowls are also a noisy bunch of birds. Clucking and crowing at the highest decibels at any time of the day for no reason at all. Roosters, hens and the cocks of the middle ground serve to be a nuisance at anytime. Trying to bring order to a group of yard fowls is a lost because once riled up they simply cluck and crow louder and louder. Worse yet is if it’s a fowl from St. John or St. Lucy but that’s a story for another day.

Nowhere in my small understanding of economics and business does it make sense to me to lower something by raising all the factors that contribute to it. To me that sound like in an effort to lose weight I should eat more and exercise less. This is what troubles me about the cost of living situation in Barbados. Raising everything that contributes to the cost of living and lowering the amount of money we have to spend cannot make it easier to live.

I’ve however realized that there may be some merit to being a yard-fowl as opposed to a proper bird. Commonly it’s the yard-fowls that get overlooked when the time for cutting of heads come. So many proper birds are slaughtered by the farmer whilst his yard-fowls live on and seem to prosper. Makes me wonder what the benefits of being proper and sensible are.  Let’s all just run around clucking pointlessly with no real direction since it seems to be the way to go.

At some point we have to look deep and realize that saying it was the last administrations fault is not an excuse for everything. Neither is saying we only had 2/3 years they had 14.