Why Haiti keeps getting hammered by disasters

Associated Press ^ | Thursday, January 24, 2010 | SETH BORENSTEIN

[Berlin_Freeper]

Terra not firma.

[SMARTY]

BTW, Haiti must be the AIDS capital of the W hemisphere.

[Frantzie]

“The remaining population may want to consider moving. Shut the country down and find somewhere else to live.”

Don’t say that. We already pay for tons of them in Florida.

Peggy Joseph best known for saying “Obama is gonna pay my mortgage and put gas in my car” was a Haitian-American.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Try changing the name to Lovee.

[mlizzy]

Could it be that Christ is sounding a wake-up alarm to not just the good people of Haiti, but to the world as well? Because if you can't feel poorly for the poor of Haiti, what's left of your soul you should nourish. And no matter how wonderfully they build their future buildings (if they would be able to do that anyway), there's nothing that's going to take a hit very well from a "delivered" powerful earthquake (in Haiti, California, or even Illinois).

Pray for the good people of Haiti, and for yourself and your family as well.

[maica]

I am convinced that many people who write for a living are numbers-challenged. One sounds so much like another, don’cha know! Part of the reason why “trillion” does not have the teeth-jarring, neck-snapping effect that any “N-word” seems to have, for instance.

From the Yahoo article:
“former top FEMA official Mark Merritt, president of the disaster consulting firm James Lee Witt Associates, says, “It’s an economic issue. It’s one of those things that feeds on each other.”

For the record, because we all know that the relief efforts will be compared to Bush/Katrina responses:

James Lee Witt was the Clinton FEMA head who advised Louisiana Gov. Blanco not to ask that the Katrina response be federalized; thus delaying for at least 24 hours the presence of many military rescue teams and efforts. He sabotaged the Administration initial response in the interest of democrat politics. But he stays a multi-millionaire authority on disaster response, instead of having a name as disparaged as “Brownie’s”.

[TADSLOS]

LOL! Yeah, forgot about that one...

[wendy1946]

It isn’t because of Voodoo. We have a state religion (secular humanism/evolutionism) which is stupider than Voodoo and we don’t seem to suffer from repetitive disasters...

[dfwgator]

Not to mention the Islamic countries.

[wolfman23601]

We ought to just conquer Haiti. It is a beautiful landscape and a lot of money could be made. They have proven unable to handle their own sovereignty and nobody would or could stop us. An added bonus would be the ease of keeping tabs on Castro.

[oh8eleven]

The remaining population may want to consider moving. Shut the country down and find somewhere else to live.
Sam Kinison said the same thing 20+ years ago ...

"You want to stop world hunger? Stop sending these people food. Don’t send these people another bite, folks. You want to send them something, you want to help? Send them U-Hauls.
Send them U-Hauls, some luggage, send them a guy out there who says, ‘Hey, we been driving out here every day with your food, for, like, the last thirty or forty years,
and we were driving out here today across the desert, and it occurred to us that there wouldn’t BE world hunger, if you people would LIVE WHERE THE FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!"

[Huck]

My brother used to have a really funny tee shirt that said:

STOP PLATE TECTONICS

I wonder when the left will start crafting tectonics legislation. They should get a few scientists on it.

[reagan_fanatic]

Boooo....

[Obadiah]

That is an excellent and top-notch analysis. There was an article linked to Drudge that mentioned about aid begining to go to Hati followed by the first couple of ensuing comments, no doubt by liberals, that stated that we should not help Hatians because America has already mettled in too many countries affairs and we should not do so here.

What an outrage, yet it clearly demonstrates the Obama liberal's mentality that roundly denies the "uniqueness" of America. That is what I find so repelling about Obama and his Marxists followers. They view America as an invading, conquering country. We, on the other hand, view America for it's greateness, for our eager willingness to send national aid, personal treasure, and to sacrifce blood to help other downtrodden people around the world. Does this aways turn out well? No, but the heart and values of Americans cannot be in doubt.

No other comment summarized for me the two stark views there are currently in America. The one held by Obamaites, and those who love this country and the principles she was founded on.

[Godzilla]

"There's a whole bunch of things working against Haiti. One is the hurricane track. The second is tectonics. Then you have the environmental degradation and the poverty," he said.

This clown has the factors all bassackwards. There are a lot of placed in tectonically active and hurricane prone areas that are not the cesspools Haiti is.

The primary cause is a hyper corrupt and incompetent gov't more willing to take payoffs than to cut and past building code standards well established in the rest of the civilized world. They don't give a rats rear end about the people, only their desires.

[maica]

Shut the country down and find somewhere else to live.

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Other groups of man have had to do the same thing after they destroyed their own environment. Apparently the Sahara desert is growing because of lack of water, because of continuing denuding of any forestation/vegetation. Some Pacific islands thrive, and some become barren rocks. Much depends on rule of law, and respect for the land, and respect for personal property rights.

[OregonRancher]

You didn’t look very hard, re-bar in a lot of photos.

[dfwgator]

Exactly. The fact is, a 7.0 earthquake in most of the world, doesn’t do that much damage, because of building codes.

[Hot Tabasco]

I find it odd that there’s no mention of Bush in this article......

[Uri’el-2012]

Isn't Haiti still officially a Roman Catholic country ?

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach