Posted on 01/12/2015 6:56:27 AM PST by C19fan
Five years ago this week a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Port-Au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, all-but obliterating the city in the process. The tremor, the strongest to hit the island since 1770, killed 300,000, left 1.5million homeless and destroyed 60 per cent of the country's government buildings - including the National Palace. But despite £8.6billion being handed over in donations and foreign aid since the crisis began, much of the country still lies in ruins or is waiting to be rebuilt.
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And Chile had an 8.2 about a year ago. Heard they were almost back to normal.
Much, if not most, of the infrastructure was rebuilt through state and local money. It seemed like most of the Federal money went to scammers and vote buying.
It was a beehive of activity clearing rubble, rebuilding where they could and putting up temporary structures where they could not.
The place was literally transformed before his eyes from the time he arrived in September 1945 until the time is was rotated back to Hawaii in January 1946-- four short months.
We lived in Kobe during the massive earthquake of exactly 20 years ago this month and experienced the same thing. I sent my wife and three small children to live in Nagano with a brother and used the spare bedroom thus created to host relief volunteers from the same city. There were similar exchanges all throughout our area.
http://facts.randomhistory.com/haiti-facts.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_Massacre
History of this vile island....is depressing.
How about they get off their @$$e$$ and rebuild it themselves?
Just like Detroit.
Ever notice in ghetto neighborhoods there is trash all over the place? Some people have no self respect and choose to live in squalor. It doesn’t cost a nickel to clean up.
Perhaps they should invite the French to colonize them again? Minus the chattel slavery, of course.
I guess we need to send a couple hundred white people in to rebuild
I thought former Pres Clinton was in charge of the funds...
...that should be the ‘most bang for the construction buck’ dollar in the western hemisphere. What’s going on?
That reminds me of the scene in the Band of Brothers where the Germans citizens are cleaning up their town after allied bombing.
One of the 101st soldiers states “the Kroutes sure do clean up well”·
I also remember visiting Munich in 1990. The cathedral that was originally built by king Ludwig had been severely damaged from bombing in WWII, practically destroyed. They had pictures of what it looked like in 1944. They had rebuilt it in a few years. We all know what happened to Dresden, Frankfort, Berlin, etc.
To some extent you see the difference in people around here in NH every time we have an ice storm or heavy wet snow storm that breaks trees. Some people go out and clean up the mess. Others will leave trees and limbs laying around until spring or until somebody else cleans them up. I realize that many folks do not own a chainsaw or are too old to do it themselves. However, that’s where neighbors help neighbors. When I lived next door to an elderly couple, me and another guy went over and cleaned up their property after we were done with our own. Some people are just lazy. I guess the whole country of Haiti must be.
Not so many natural born 0bama voters in Japan
Lazy bastards. Anyone con start by merely bending over and picking something up.
Sure seems like it. Do you remember those iconic photos of Hiroshima 1945 and Hiroshima today vs. Detroit 1945 and Detroit today? They could probably do the same with Dresden, Nuremburg, etc. substituted for Hiroshima.
Note: They will not rebuild themselves.
Quintessential gimme culture.
> How much money has other countries (taxpayers) as well as donations from around the world been given to Africa and other countries to solve poverty and hunger....
Go ask the fat overlords who received the money for “their people” and live in castles in plenty
You got that right! The infamous 9th ward still has do-gooder white folk working to ‘rebuild’ it while the natives sit and watch. There are houses in Eastern N.O. that have been UNTOUCHED since the storm, everything in them rotting!Nearly 10 years after Katrina what was a decrepit ghetto is now a festering, destroyed ghetto-and the whining goes on daily about how no one cares and how terrible it is that it isn’t rebuilt to a pristine paradise. It’s about CLASS and mentality-Haiti and New Orleans are the same.
> Just like Detroit.
Why do you think Africa still has tribes and lives in cow dung huts? What I finally figured out is that Obama was talking to his own bretheren when he said “you didn’t build that! He meant whiteys and Mexicans did...
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