August 30, 2012Dear Sir,Your editorial today, August 30, entitled “Creating employment” gave endorsement to the recently announced immigration policy contained in the “Job Makers Act”. Surely you missed the real story. This act allegedly makes immigration easier and more flexible. However, it is exactly the opposite of how immigration has been handled for the past 14 years. Government claims credit for a new policy which directly indicts its previous policy, and it does so without any apology for its prior stupidity, and the damage done to the economy of Bermuda. The well known Greek aphorism “those whom the gods will destroy, they first make mad” has never been more apt. People are deported for serving drinks at a local golf club, when they should only be serving French fries, others are deported because they have been in Bermuda more than six years, and others probably get the boot because the Progressive Labour Party Government does not like them or because they complain.If the previous policies failed to work, surely the government should openly admit that and apologise to those Bermudians whose jobs have disappeared. Admission of failure will never happen, because government always relies on the excuse that it was somebody’s else’s fault. This act exists only because the previous policies were a total failure as many unemployed Bermudians can attest to. Of course, the mastermind behind the failed immigration policies, Lt Col David Burch, is now an approved candidate for a House of Assembly seat. Surely, consideration should be given for a promotion to major-general, along the lines of the soldier in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta ‘Pirates of Penzance’. Immigration has been a disaster because it is founded on a huge fallacy. That fallacy is that non-Bermudians steal the jobs of Bermudians. This fallacy is still at the centre of government policy, as are the fools who support it, and it continues to lurk in the shadows of the Job Makers Act.ROBERT STEWARTSmith’s