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Letter from Bermuda: Gov’t shows expats who the man is [And he ain’t foreign or white!]

There is a sense among those who make laws that any problem can be solved by passing a law. There is also a sense among Bermudians that, if something is wrong, it’s the fault of expatriate workers. The traditional solution is to punish the expatriate community, although they rarely have anything to do with the problem. The traditional outcome is that matters get worse for Bermudians, while expatriates do better than they did before.