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.
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.
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.
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.
For obvious reasons Haiti is a lost cause, but America will pick up the pieces (nobody else will), and be blamed soundly.
Poverty has virtually nothing to do with Haiti’s problems. A corrupt government with no rule of law, no respect for property rights, and no will on the part of the people to ever do it better— now THAT is the problem that Haiti has.
Haiti will be fixed when the people have had enough of what they’ve got. So far, that hasn’t happened.
Inquiring Minds Want to Know....How many reporters are there? Every city in the US has one/two sometimes three. Europe has to have half that many. What the hell are they doing to help?
Progress’s love central government, why don’t they have a central news outlet!
No, it's not - it's corruption and greed, which causes poverty.
Perhaps the libs can explain the difference in the standards of living (pre-quake) in Haiti and DR. It’s clearly a perfect example of liberty vs tyranny.