Wrong question! The right one is: What difference does a culture make?
POST-WWII GERMANY: With most German men dead or POWs,
women clear and salvage rubble and then begin the rebuilding. 
What happened to all of the money?
Yeah, and compare that with how quickly the people of Japan cleaned up after an earthquake AND resultant tsunami.
take a socialist country....give the people no self respect...then and earthquake....
and vuala...permanent slum....
happening in europe now and soon coming to a country near you..
It’s simple to understand why the place is still a mess. They are waiting for someone else to come and clean it up.
Maybe we should send down the Mexican crews who cleaned up New Orleans.
Where’s all the fn money?
How about getting Clinton/Bush and all the others (Moochelle, Dr. Jill) to pack their sleeping bags and get their hands dirty...
it’s called walkin’ the walk, instead of spouting the platitudes.
Where’s all the fn money?
Like New Orleans, but unlike Mississippi and Alabama, they’ll sit back and wait for someone to come in and take care of them.
All of the food we’ve sent down there, and all of the doctors we’ve sent there have: put Haitian farmers and put Haitian doctors out of work....it destroyed what little self-sustaining infrastructure they had. There was a time not so long ago when Haitians were actually quite self-sufficient, not rich, by any standards, but it wasn’t always the basket case that it is now....and all of the aid will only perpetuate it being a basket case.
But Bill Clinton went down and fixed everything. /sarcasm
Look, folks, I have worked with Haitian folks that reside in Miami. The overwhelming majority of these folks are hard working, decent people who want the best for their families and loved ones!!! And...they, as a group, contribute positive economic power to the South Florida locale.
The country of Haiti is another story, being full of crooks, dictators, and power hungry leaders and politicians, that have only their own interest at heart. With Obama as POTUS in the USA, one would think he would be proactive in leading the effort to rebuild and develop Haiti, starting with cleaning out the Haitian corrupt leadership. But....that is not on the Obama agenda!!!
Actually, Obama has an established mantra that bypasses Christian Blacks, in Haiti, in the USA and around the world. For goodness sake the Obama bloodline comes from Muslim slave traders in Kenya!!! It is really amazing, that Haitians, American Blacks, African Black Christians in Libya and Nigeria continue to give this anti-Black Christian hater, Obama the right time of day!!! Sad, because the plight of Haiti, etc. will only get worse for those
Blacks that continue to support Barack Hussein Obama. Yes, the truth hurts, but....the truth is the truth!!!
Haiti was a shattered wreck before the earthquake.
Wrong question! The right one is: What difference does a culture make?
POST-WWII GERMANY: With most German men dead or POWs,
women clear and salvage rubble and then begin the rebuilding.
I kinda agree, but these are primitive people used to being ruled and who always end up being ruled by ruthless dictators who live high on the hog and heartlessly deny their people.
All the money good-hearted people gave to help Haitans ended up in the hands of these dictators.
I don’t want to sound ‘heartless,’ but there’s really nothing much other people and countries can do for these people.
In a SWAG on another thread this week I guesstimated Haiti can support about 3 million people. There’s 10 million.
That having been said, a buddy of mine said that Haiti and New Orleans have a lot in common. He went to NO to help during Katrina. He and his crew were really working up a sweat, unloading water and supplies while a few dozen (male, able bodied locals) sat in the shade and watched.
Buddy wandered over to them and asked for a hand. They all laughed at him. Buddy said "No, really, all this stuff is for you guys. Give us a hand." They told him to do something that was anatomically impossible.
Buddy finished out the day, packed up himself and his crew, and moved east to Mississippi (where specifically, I don't know). He said that the damage there was exponentially worse, and the people were exponentially more helpful.
ML/NJ