Posted on 01/14/2010 5:25:53 AM PST by EnjoyingLife
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I know what you mean, and that's the way I used to think, too. When I moved to FL and worked w/ island people I couldn't believe how slowly they went about their kitchen duties, in a busy restaurant to boot. I told my friend in NY, who runs a HoJos, and he told me that he had a bus of islanders one day and it took them forever to get in the damn door, they poked along so.
However, since I moved to FL I've found that I have started moving a bit slower myself! I think it's all relative to where you live. Their lack of motivation is their way of life.
Not that there's not anything wrong with that: they just don't know anything different.
Holy socks!
And with the absolute glut of them just sitting in shipyards and in the graveyard of cargo ships no longer in use they have tons of them already built with no place to go. It could be a win win for everyone, but that makes too much sense so it will not be done....
It would probably cost a lot less than what it cost for Obama and his ‘posse’ in Hawaii last month.
A lot of the concrete was way thinned out with sand. Junk. Fake.
So, no or low rebar, sanded out concrete, poor craftsmanship. You know the site prep and foundations are junk.
No one, not even the locals would build a proper building because it is a bust out country. There’s no point in building for the long term, as things, values, economy, politics are not going to improve. You just do enough to extract what you can. Think of profitable slum lording an entire country. Or think of any long term Democrat city, or presently in the early stages, Michigan, California, New York....
Too expensive for Haitians though. Even uninsulated ones, (uninhabitable in hot tropical weather) cost from $1000 (used) to $3000 (new). No windows or doors either. Kitting one out so that it is habitable would be several times as expensive as typical Haitian construction methods. That is why they don't use them.
I would imagine that shipping containers would be very hot inside, especially in Haiti heat.
“But is there some way to build private enterprise or capitalism in some of the recovery efforts so Haitians have a stake in their recovery?”
Thanks. This is the point that I was trying to make. Sometimes, just like in the Soviet Union, people lose their motivation because they think the situation is hopeless for them. The people of Haiti deserve the opportunity to map their own destiny and to live in a county in which they can aspire to a much better life by virtue of self-determination and their own hard work.
Those in the US (i.e. the hard left), and elsewhere in the world who prop up socialist governments in small impoverished countries only perpetuate the poverty and hopelessness. That has to stop. Now is the time to ‘teach a man (or woman as the case may be) to fish, so that they can fish for themselves and never have to go hungry again.’
Many of the Haitians who made it to Miami, have actually become successful entrepreneurs, these are precisely the people we need to rebuild Haiti.
Shipping container homes are a good idea.
Actually, they are quite cool and have many options for ventilation. Most shipping container homes are more popular in the south.
Hence the terms highway robbery and highway men. How are these people different from the outlaws who held up stagecoaches and the highway men robbers of the Regency period in England?
How many’ll be comin’ at barry’s invite?
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