Posted on 02/24/2016 9:03:43 PM PST by Mr Apple
This is very sad!
Those people can’t catch a break.
Send snowflakes to build an irrigation system. That will solve several problems.
Yes, we're all thinking this too. And Trump is the type of person who might donate money to help get some immediate food shipments to the Haitians. But, with those folks in the latter stages of hunger, thousands could die every day waiting for relief.
And like Swede Girl says, think of all that food that is wasted on those cruise ships in the area and the food that is wasted in the resorts with the huge smorgasbords. Just very a very, very sad situation. :(
The only country who abused their colonies worse was Belgium.
They never allowed anyone "home grown" to run anything so they never learned how anything worked.
Even today if you are in a french colony and you want to send a letter to the colony next door your letter is bundled up and shipped to Paris where it is sorted and sent on it's way.
The Spanish were no angels but they kept a much looser rein on their people and while the guys at the very top would be from the motherland the guys lower down the chain were home grown.
As I see it, Haiti has about one solution to it’s problems.
Attack the U. S., get conquered, and let the U. S. administrate the island for the rest of history.
It is a mess.
The farmers were crushed years ago by the importation of US free food... before the earthquake and the drought.
This has been going on for a long time...
In Vietnam the US politicians pandered to the US agri-lobby by pumping in free rice in the effort to out-socialize the socialists. It turned many of the local farmers against us.
Very good quality post, thank you. I haven’t thought about the big picture in all this.
It's hard to laugh while pondering this sad situation, but that is funny dice, lol.
Ah yes, the old mouse that roared trick. Guaranteed to work every time it is tried.
I hate to say it, but I think you could throw a trillion dollars into Haiti and in 10 years it would be right back where it was.
“:^)
The problem is that Haiti has many more people than the island can sustain, by several millions.
Uh.......... calling Clinton and bush clinton and bush, pick up the phone in the hall way
I've worked with Haitians and they for the most part are some of the hardest working Caribbean people in this country...
They actually do help their families back home by sending their money back home......
To send them back home would not help them....nothing on that Island functions...
It would just add to the misery..
In the Haitian revolution in the 18th Century, they massacred the whites. Men, women, children.
They have been damned ever since.
The Dutch were probably worse than the French as colonizers; the Spanish were relatively benign (in comparison to Belgium or Holland), losing their colonies not to native independence movements but like the US with England, their own transplants or wars. The Latin American independence movements were led by Spaniards, and they lost the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War.
I don’t believe there are independence movements in France’s remaining colonies; like Puerto Ricans, they can look around them and see the potential dangers (and responsibilities) of independence. Haiti was the second country in the Western hemisphere to gain their independence (in 1804, after us); they can’t blame France any more. I saw a photo (looked like it was from a helicopter) of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic; the DR side was lush green, and a perfectly straight line separated it from what looked like a desert. Haitians had cut everything down for firewood, and never replanted any of the trees (and this was before the earthquake). If you think US blacks should be better off 150 years after slavery was ended (and 50 years after the freebies of the Great Society), what should we expect of Haiti’s blacks who have had independence for 210 years? No segregation, Jim Crow laws, etc.; a great growing climate, relative security (in terms of military defense)...and this is the result.
You mean that after they got the gold mines the Clinton “Foundation” (a great book series) has kicked the dust of Haiti off of their feet?
Paging the Clintons
Didn’t the Bushes put you in charge of Haiti relief?
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