Mark J. Pettingill

—and I think . . . and I do not know what I am talking about. B ermuda House of Assembly Here is the point. The Opposition Leader i nterpolates that I do not know what I am talking about. Guess what? His plan is a dare with regard to how that can work . So, do y ou know …

I do not know what I am talking about, but it is certainly in relation to their Reply, “to create a local sovereign- wealth fund called the ‘Bermuda Fund’” on page 22! [ Inaudible interjections]

I did not make that up! It is right here. I will lend it to the Learned Member if he does not know what his Budget Reply says, that his Honourable Member . . . and by the way, with regard to what is going on now in the Opposition he probably does not know. But at page 22, when …

The one platform where that Learned Member and I are ad idem ? Look, I am a li bertarian. I am all for legalising marijuana. I am all for doing it right. But let me tell you, this is what it says. And maybe I am getting excited, maybe that is what it means, “Tourism is about experiences, tourism is …

Tell me. I’m guessing! I did not write it. The Opposition wrote it. It is on page 23. I do not know what it is about. I am taking a jump in saying . . . and I am excited because we are going to have coffee shops and stuff. But the point is this, the “Get Serious about Tourism” …

Well, I would like to go and find that plan anywhere. Every vacation I go on, Madam Deputy Speaker, I am looking for that. I go to Warwick, I want to find that when I go home. What is that plan for economic making money, like how is that? This is your plan of “Get Serious about Tourism” in five …

The plan for the education sy stem is “invest” (I love that, invest with what? The money you spent) “in technology to ensure our st udents are sufficiently prepared for postgraduate education and/or employment in a future where technological ignorance is a barrier to success.” Hallelujah! What are you doing? Great idea. Great line. What is your plan? Talk me …

One man’s opinion. The Wall Street Journal, right?— who does not publish nonsense, who does not publish spin, who does not sell Burt’s Bliss, says “Will most likely end in tears.”

You have to try. Do you hear that? I heard the interpolation, You have to try . But you know, when you do a bus iness plan, Madam Deputy Speaker, you have to have some sensibility to it. We are dealing in international business, not like selling ice cones on the corner somewhere (which is an easy business model). We …

I will grow i t all. I do my granny’s low -pot chutney. I am not ashamed, and I do all that stuff. But let me give you a fact —and have anybody on the other side disagree with me. For one person to feed a person for a year you need one acre of farmland. One acre to feed …

Look it up. You can disagree with me. Actually, it is more than that. It is like 1.2 to 1.4 acres of farmland to feed a person —one person. I was astounded to see that. We need like 65,000 acres to start to feed the country. I am all down with communal farming. Take the space, grow some crops, it …

—and you can do really well with it.

So there are these things. Let me just say in closing, Madam Deputy Speaker, do not buy the Burt’s Bliss. Do not buy the Burt’s Bliss.

I am always in a funny mood.