September 3, 2012Dear Sir,I was amazed to return to the Island and read Premier Paula Cox’s summation of the country’s economic recovery! Does she think we have forgotten that on her watch, The Peoples Purse, melted away to someone else’s purse? It is an affront to our intelligence, when Mr and Mrs Bermuda have lost their jobs, moved in with grandma, the landlord is knocking on the door, and the school fees are due. She talks about the future but the truth is that it need never have happened and the man in the street is suffering now, not yesterday or in the future, but sure enough he will and his children for a very long time. Now is the vital time that help must be available.We hear from people who have a roof over their heads and, surely have three meals a day and plenty of clothes for themselves and their family, and can pay their children’s school fees, but listening to the rhetoric one wonders where is the compassion and the identification to their misery? Now is the operative word, now is the time that the Government must make reparations and reimburse money to the people that are suffering. Bills should be quickly passed, whereby all the monies that was wasted from The People’s Purse returned to where it originally came from. There would be enough to impact and relieve the immediate hardships that exist in our community today. In the words of a great man and a great orator, how long?DIANA WILLIAMSPembroke