St. Maarten Private Eye

To Local Hero and others involved in the environmental movement:

The food on your plate, the credit card you use and the house you live in came from those same developers you are scolding. Obviously you are not making any money on having a business exporting products or by farming. A true St. Maartenaar does not work hard, does not produce, does not innovate and does not add value. It only recieves.

All those things just mentioned comes from.......................foreigners.

You guys praise the French side for its many rules and high taxes. You obviously do not live on the French side and pay those taxes. You obviously do not live in a tree hut but in an actual house in which the environment had to make way when it was constructed. So why is it ok for your house to be constructed and not that of your neighbor? You obviously drive in an SUV as you do not like walking.

Yes the French side is more regulated, it is greener and there is more building code enforcement. On the other hand, all the poor French are working illegaly on the Dutch Side while recieving French welfare) and the rich French are hiding their money en masse on the Dutch in such amounts that Sarkozy is making its personal agenda to get those guys. The French Side economy is virtually dead, and if it wasn't for the French Cash Flow emanating from Paris we would face a Haitian uprising.

So in other words: Developments are a blessing: Without developments SXM would be just another drug trafficking state. And an alternative for the current economy model? Don;t expect any ideas from the true locals nor from the green movement..