It might make sense for developers to buy up the prime waterfront at bargain prices, build resorts, employ thousands of Haitians at salaries Haitians can only dream of and bring some prosperity to the blighted island.
I was telling DH last night that the Haitian peoples' lives could be so much better if they would rise up and start taking control of their situation. They have such a beautiful country that could, as you say, be a tourist destination and employ most of the country. A Hilton and a Sandals resort or two would do wonders. There is only one hotel that meets "internation standards" in the whole country.
The pictures simply break your heart, if you have a heart. There are babies and toddlers' little dead bodies laying everywhere and folks that have been injured lying in lines outside of meager little medical clinics, waiting for treatment. One lady's foot had been cut off and she had been waiting in line for 30 hours with no antibiotics or pain relievers. Another had a mangled leg, broken in many places. They are in shock and young thugs are starting to loot and take advantage of what little personal property that may have survived the quake.
To all of the members of this forum that are snearing at offering aid to these people ... grow a heart or stop making kneejerk, snarky remarks. This is a human tragedy, not a bunch of folks with their hands out. You should be ashamed. Is it darn time that, under normal circumstances, Haiti should heal itself? Yes. But this is not a normal situation. The US has foreign aid that is budgeted and is going to be spent ... that is a fact that is not going to change today. Send it to the broken and suffering people of Port Au Prince and make sure that it gets to the folks who need it.
This is not a political issue, nor is it the time to exhibit how hateful you "conservatives" can act.
Exactly, give them a way to make a living. Give them self-respect.