Posted on 01/26/2010 10:51:53 AM PST by Kartographer
The Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers used pepper spray to control a frenzied crowd of thousands of Haitians seeking food at a makeshift camp on the grounds of the palace.
"They're not violent, just desperate. They just want to eat," Brazilian Army Colonel Fernando Soares said. "The problem is, there is not enough food for everyone."
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How can there be any problems with Haiti aid? Zero is in charge and he’s not going to sit around and let people suffer is he like that mean Bush did in New Orleans?
I do feel sorry for those poor souls. However, at lunch today I had a BFI (brilliant flash of insight).
Why don’t we take all of the cocaine we seize and air drop it on Haiti. That way it would curb hunger and get the country re-built really fast! /s
That's fixed now.
“Pardon my ignorance, but how can there be NO FOOD in a tropical environment which is able to produce food year round. are there no farms?”
Read this and you will know how:
http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=10729
“I do feel sorry for those poor souls. However, at lunch today I had a BFI (brilliant flash of insight).
Why don’t we take all of the cocaine we seize and air drop it on Haiti. That way it would curb hunger and get the country re-built really fast! /s”
I think that leads to Zombieism. What a problem we would have if the undead were unfed.
Maybe they should be handing out fish hooks and nets and poles to some...there’s gotta’ be fish, mussels, crabs, etc. they should be able to get???
“The American-led eradication of the indigenous Creole pig to preempt an outbreak of African swine fever in the early 1980s had disastrous social and economic consequences on the livelihoods of people in rural Haiti.”
Send them some feral pigs for #&!* sakes. Texas is over run with them. That will keep the muzzies away too! Then Haiti might become the BBQ capital of the Caribbean.
Maybe they should be handing out fish hooks and nets and poles to some...there’s gotta’ be fish, mussels, crabs, etc. they should be able to get???
They do not store food because of rats and such. Everyday, they seek food just for that day.
Well, given the choice of waiting for Obama and eating a feces loaded dirt “cookie”, I’d just have to take my chances in the ocean with some fish. HEY!! Speaking of which... doesn’t the name of the city itself have PORT in it?
Why is anyone starving pre-earthquake when you are SURROUNDED BY OCEAN????
Ok, I have to admit to being snookered into sympathy, and believe me, I am sympathetic to the earthquake situation. But to be on an ISLAND and claim to be STARVING... I don’t know, it just seems weird to me.
In the Caribbean, you can row out a hundred feet from shore and pick conches off the sea floor. No one needs to starve there.
Zombieism schombieism....think how fast they could rebuild their houses!
the adult population looks generally very well fed...maybe over fed...the children are the ones to suffer though...
The children always suffer....it is amazing that any of us are alive.
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