Posted on 06/03/2017 3:55:09 PM PDT by Rockitz
That’s true. Mexico had a campaign a while back trying to get Mexicans to stay in their country because it suddenly dawned on them that the most energetic and enterprising, hence the ones that Mexico needed most, were leaving. Unfortunately, Mexico did nothing to improve opportunity for these people, and remained the dysfunctional, socialist kleptocracy that it has always been - so Mexicans with smarts and determination kept on leaving.
And Haiti makes Mexico look like paradise...lots of luck convincing Haitians to stay there! Thank you, Bill Clinton, btw...
How can Haiti be such a mess when there are no evil white people running the show?
There SHOULD be.
But the locals cut down most of the trees to make charcoal for cooking. With the loss of so many trees, much of the topsoil eroded. So they can’t grow a surplus of food to sell. They have a hard enough time growing enough to eat. The soil runoff also killed or ran off the fish close inshore so fishing is not particularly successful, either.
The local culture is not amenable to a tourist industry. What resorts exist there are fenced off, practically fortified, and staffed by outsiders.
I have been known to say that the UN should be moved to Haiti, so they would at least have a service industry servicing the UN.
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