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To: TigerClaws
"The Red Cross long has been known for providing emergency disaster relief — food, blankets and shelter to people in need. And after the earthquake, it did that work in Haiti, too. But the Red Cross has very little experience in the difficult work of rebuilding in a developing country."

Let's cut the crap. Haiti is a "developing country" like one of the Walking Dead is "getting better." Poor Haiti has been and probably will always be a doomed pest hole like most of the Third World.

39 posted on 05/06/2016 9:00:37 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: pabianice
Haiti is a "developing country" like one of the Walking Dead is "getting better." Poor Haiti has been and probably will always be a doomed pest hole like most of the Third World.

I was down there ca 1952, courtesy of the USN. We were on maneuvers and pulled into Port-au-Prince for a day. I had mess cook duty then and part of my job was to unload our garbage to the bumboats alongside.

I was on a sub, so we were pretty close to the guys in the boats. Our "garbage" was actually fresh dish scrapings from a recent mess, no more than an hour old.

I remember that we had fried chicken, with desert being those slabs of multi-colored ice cream is a little waxed paper wrapper. I had just retrieved a bin that I had lowered into the boat and was lowering it below deck when a shipmate said, "Geez, will you look at that."

I glanced down and saw one guy pawing through the chicken bones, selecting one that had a scrap of meat on it and began chowing down. The other guy was busy licking those ice cream wrappers. As an 18-year-old brought up in NYC, I thought I had seen poor people, but this was a watershed for me.

Later on, when we were trading with the locals at the dock for hand-made cigar/cigarette boxes, I saw our electricians trading their ragged denims for some goods. Having their denims eaten up with battery acid, they always got a quarterly free allotment, and they were trading stuff off that looked like the only thing remaining was the waistband, inseams and cuffs - and getting trades for them. It was one Helluva education, which made this teen really appreciate what America had to offer.

47 posted on 05/06/2016 1:22:25 PM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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