Happy St Maarten's Day, Is St Maarten Heading In The Right Direction?

Today is November 11th 2009, St Maarten's Day, It's also the 50 year anniversary of St Maarten's Day.
Is St Maarten headed in the right direction? After 50 years, it seems St Maarten has become so dependant on the tourism industry, that people including the government is afraid to try anything else. Tourists are a vital neccesity, but shouldn't we be allowed options?
In the age of the internet, St Maarten supposedly has fiber optics buried and ready for use. How many foreigners have wanted to invest in St Maarten, but after experiencing GEBE and the poor internet quality, have given up on invested their money somewhere else?
We're not supposed to critique our island, but could Dutch St Maarten be a little bit passive? Submisive? Why is St Maarten allowed to flounder in mediocrity?
When people like Oral Gibbs, or Lloyd Richardson try to talk about it, they get dissed.
Why is someone as incompetent as Brooks allowed to control a sector of St Maarten that is so vitally important, when he clearly has no clue.
If someone was hired to flip burgers at Mcdonald's, and did such a terrible job, for such a prolonged period, they would have been fired a long time ago.
Has Brooks ever explained why he refuses to assist St Maarten into the 21st century by allowing us to use the latest in technology? St Maarten has First World potential, but many of our leaders have Third World mentalities. Where else other than a refugee camp, are people allowed to endure so many power outages. Where else can a company wantonly destroy millions in equipment, televisions, refrigerators, computers and not be obligated to pay for the damages?
How many times did GEBE power on and off Monday morning? Three times? Five times? Really, do they have some special deal with the people who sell us appliances? I'm not serious when I say that, but who profits from GEBE's incompetence? GEBE higher ups, certain politicos and appliance and generator dealers.
How about this for a St Maarten's Day resolution......how about we resolve not to tolerate GEBE's incompetence any longer. How about we resolve to evolve into a country that is not solely dependant on one source for income. People in government have Facebook accounts too, send them a friend invite to let them know, that they will not get your vote, until they actually do something that benefits St Maarten.
That's my St Maarten's day post, hopefully if the weather gets brighter we'll get some pictures and videos of todays events and activities.
Don't criticize my posts, if you are one of the people enabling the incompetence of our government. I am far from perfect, but I would like to be part of the solution.
My next blog is going to be about the filling of the pond across from where The John Larmonie Center used to be.