‘We are too addicted to money’ – Doug Wheatley
On the 3D Show aired on a local radio station on April 19, 2013 Wheatley said, “Because of our addiction to money, we suffer from vanity.”
He felt that persons in the community were always endeavouring to have the ‘latest’ of any item that is made. “If we were to use our money to help ourselves with our basic needs and to take that money and to help those who are not that well off… I think we would do a better job in our community.”
Wheatley said this would help to lift everyone in society, “everybody just wants to get as much as they can for themselves,” he added.
The host also suggested that more attention should be paid to white collar crime occurring within the Territory as was being done in the US Virgin Islands.
“In a lot of other Territories… you don’t see that same aggressive approach to those things,” he said.
Wheatley felt that somehow or the other, we have been bred on a particular system where we feel that we have to get as much money as we possibly can.
According to Wheatley, “a lot of what is going on in the white collar area, you’re not hearing anything about that… a lot of those people are getting away scot free.”
One caller on the programme felt a message needed to be sent to white collar criminals, not only in the VI but also the world at large.
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