Posted on 01/16/2010 7:02:31 AM PST by myknowledge
By the end of the first day when the amount of destruction became obvious, my husband said the folks in the city should be taken (forced if necessary) to the coast and housed in tent cities, otherwise really "bad" things (disease, etc.) are going to take place. I have seen no effort to move the Haitians out of or away from the rubble, decay, and death zone. Who knows how many bodies are buried in those collapsed buildings? It's going to get very ugly, very fast, and yet no one seems to be "in charge."
Yep, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” sucks as a foreign policy.
“My suggestion would be for all the Caribbean countries and other countries in tropical regions to accept multitude airlifts for these people.”
You’re nuts!!! But I will give you a lot of slack since I realize you are not informed in these areas.
Don’t shove this problem on to Caribbean countries and Central America. No one wants these feral animals around. They will always be a danger to the citizens and a drain on the economy in everyway to include having to hire extra police and build more jails.
You are free to invite them to share an extra room in your house, though...if you can stand the stench...and I mean that!!!
I was leaving for the States one day, and I was behind some Haitians. The stench of fecal matter emanating from them took me by surprise. IT WAS AWFUL!!!!
Luckily they were headed back to Haiti. I was headed for Miami; therefore, we were not on the same aircraft.
If you are so concerned, better they be airlifted to the U.S.
Thats my point, I wouldn’t want them here either.Let them go to other third world countries where they would feel more at home.
I’m not sure what you are implying, but roughly 55 cents a week in aid doesn’t make a Haitian rich.
“Thats my point, I wouldn’t want them here either.Let them go to other third world countries where they would feel more at home.”
My God you are ignorant!!!!
You have a head of lead.
Because a country might be poor they are also stupid and will welcome these feral animals?
My God you are ignorant!!!
Well then bygod lets just carpet bomb the country and be done with it then/sarc
Prayers for your family and hope all turns out well.
The family members in the DR are retired doctors who fled Haiti in the sixties, moved to Montreal and NYC then retired. The DR reminds them of the Haiti they knew fifty years ago.
Airlift them all to Guantanamo, then tell them they can’t stay there, shove them off onto Castro.
I just found out the other night that the Mayor Pro-Tem of Dallas, TX is one of those (former) Haitian refugee kids. Came here with his parents when he was very young.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We don’t want them here. Miami already has enough and yes, they are nasty. I personally know ONE Haitian that did well. He built up a construction business, doing plaster, and he did very well. He was a jerk. Arrogant, argumentative and was arrested about once a year for hitting his wife. Keep them out of the damn U.S. No thanks.
We better hope that Panama doesn’t cross the Marxist Kenya’s mind. :)
No one's stopping the people of Port-au-Prince from leaving all on their own. In fact, I saw just that on the news a couple of nights back.
Just as in New Orleans, most folks have the plain horse sense to get the hell out, without having to be "moved" by the authorities.
Let France handle it. Why do we always get stuck with the dirty work?
Totally agree...but by airlifting food to those who are in the city, in a way, relief organizations are encouraging them to stay where they are. That’s why somebody has to be in charge, and tell them the relief will start to be delivered outside the city. Otherwise, the survival instinct (i.e. this is where food and water will be) will keep them in the city.
You are a first class idiot, and a bigot to boot.
There is good and bad in every population. Yes, Haiti has more than it's share of uneducated, backward, and useless unworthies, but they also have a good number of honest people who deserve our help.
Same as any country.
And therein lies the heart of the problem. No one's really in charge, and no one will assume the requisite authority to take command over what's going on there.
By all rights, it ought to be the UN, but there's no real leadership or executive presence there. That body failed in it's fundamental mandate long ago, and is now little more than a front for the Socialist global elite.
Despite the scorn and hatred that is routinely heaped upon us, the US is the de facto First Responder to world-class tragedies of this magnitude. Unfortunately, we don't have a CIC that is capable of taking charge of this situation effectively.
Thousands upon thousands of Haitians are going to die as a result of Zero's ineptitude and inability to lead.
“We better hope that Panama doesn’t cross the Marxist Kenya’s mind. :)”
You have no idea. We finally have a president of which the ENTIRE “free world” would be envious if they only knew. President Martinelli is wonderful.
Everyone who stole from the government are/will be doing jail time no matter party affiliations. A past crooked president, Ernesto Pérez Valladares, was just convicted and will soon be doing slammer time for money laundering and many other things just to mention one. But there are many more to come.
By the way, the infamous Greg Craig, a mango tree lawyer, was this Ernesto Pérez Valladares’ lawyer at one point. He hired Craig when his U.S. visa was lifted for smuggling Chinese into the U.S. Craig’s fee was around $2,000,000. I was so afraid when Craig become chummy with Obama, he would ask Obama to restore his visa to the U.S.
Anyway, Martinelli should be the envy of the fee world.
Since citizenship doesn’t count anymore, he could be our next U.S. president. He would be more than wonderful and great.
Oh, did I tell you? He donates his entire presidential salary to three charities.
Also, there used to be two VPs. No more.
Legislatures had substitutes for which the tax payers would pay extra. If an elected legislature didn’t want to appear ever, the substitute would be there and get paid too. No more substitutes.
Today, if a Legislator misses a day at work, no pay for that day.
Etc., etc., etc.
Martinelli has this country in a roll. The country is doing very well.
And NO HAITIANS EVER.
To become a resident if one is not a retiree, one has to plop down $200,000 which will be return to the person after five years.
Retirees are welcomed in Panama as are the flowers in May. No downpayment is required from retierees.
Sorry for the delay in getting this to you, but it took me a little time to write this.
“where did the billions we already gave go—and why did that money do no good?”
Even though Haiti is in the Western Hemisphere where all countries except Cuba are well-functioning democracies, Haiti is not one of them.
“Although it proudly lays claim as the second oldest republic in the Hemisphere, Haiti is, and has been, among the worst governed and most undemocratic states. As of 2004, Haiti ranked in the bottom one percent of all countries on corruption and government effectiveness. The World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment
program rated Haiti in the bottom fifth of all developing countries equating it with Angola,
Central African Republic, Congo, Sudan,Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe.Transparency
International (TI) ranked Haiti, along with Bangladesh, as the most corrupt in the world.” WHY FOREIGN AID TO HAITI FAILED http://www.napawash.org/haiti_final.pdf
...or Haiti at the end of the revolution it has a couple of times every decade.
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