In Defense of Pat Robertson
Posted on 01/22/2010 6:25:32 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
3.8 to 4 babies per woman. No economy.
Mark Steyn talked about some American students there setting up a goat farm. He said it was pathetic that the Haitians were incapable of setting up a goat farm.
They want someone else to do everything for them.
Destroying and bankrupting Florida.
Poverty is not a problem - it is a symptom of a larger problem.
......3.8 to 4 babies per woman. ......
The survival rate is too high
No, it is not poverty, its the poverty mindset and culture. You have to change those first in order to get to prosperity. Not likely to happen in Haiti.
socialism doesn’t work, never has.
Because they have no free-market system because they are run by dictators.
Karl Denninger, writing about this, turns around and criticizes Royal Caribbean for having a resort there surrounded by razor wire.
Hey, Karl. What would be better, for RC to pull up their stakes and not stop there, thus cutting off any and all funds they pay to the country.
Or should they stay and continue to protect their interests, which keeps their customers coming back, which keeps money flowing to Haiti, and which, perhaps, may inspire some of the inhabitants to emulate the free-market system and try to make things better for their country?
The guy is such a dolt sometimes.
On our news this evening they were having coverage of Vikings fans in New Orleans and they were showing the 9th ward and there was an older black lady who said she sure wished obama would give some attention to them.
I for one think we should stop all foreign aid and consider this we have to borrow money and pay interest on it to send it abroad. It’s insane robbing us to pay for the world. Haiti is unsustainable they have too many people in too small an area and they have rendered the land useless. Senegal offered them land they should think about taking it.
30% of all children under five do not survive.
Clinton brought back the corrupt dictator and is now on CNN asking for money, what a complete piece of garbage this man is!
As for aid, I just read that aid feeds one million people a month! The country does need to learn to stand on its own two feet, but I doubt this crisis will change anything.
Or, Pat Robertson is right.
Too many people, too few resources.
It is a symptom of a corrupt government and a people who have no morals. Haiti is incapable of governing itself effectively because you cannot find enough honest people to run the place. ALL of the African countries were better off economically under colonial rule.
Haiti’s real problems are cultural, moral, and religious. That is it in a nut shell. Poverty is a result of cultural, moral, and religious failure not its cause.
Yes. Look at Singapore, wealthy and well-ordered because it was designed by an Englishman, embraces free-market capitalism and doesn't tolerate social disorder. How much natural resources does Singapore possess? Probably less than Haiti.
What I foresee happening is a complete US takeover of Haiti, because they have no funcional government, no strong social institutions, and no clue. This seems likely to turn into a gigantic disaster for the US, and 0bama, as he gets involved in the impossible task of nation-building. God help the Haitian people!
Bingo! Until we look in the mirror and admit that, our war on poverty in the U.S. and around the world will continue to fail.
Thanks for the link. It disappoints me so that Freepers carry on the attacks initiated by the media on Christians without regard to basic facts.
The result: we can’t talk about the problem in Haiti or with Islam.
Look!
Someone’s got to be poor, and better that it’s them than us.
Haiti’s real crisis is socialism, and the misery it brings.
Not only that, but it is actually destructive. How can a farmer compete with free food from the US, for example. Hence local agriculture destroyed.
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