Posted on 01/13/2018 9:20:53 AM PST by PBRCat
Port-au-Prince is about the size of Chicago. But it doesn't have a sewer system. It's one of the largest cities in the world without one.
That's a big problem, but never more so than during a time of cholera... the disease is endemic — more than a half-million people have gotten sick and at least 7,050 have died.
The cumulative sewage of 3 million people flows through open ditches. It mixes with ubiquitous piles of garbage. Each night, an all-but-invisible army of workers called bayakou descend into man-sized holes with buckets to remove human waste from septic pits and latrines, then dump it into the canals that cut through the city.
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According to liberals, one of the main reasons we should allow more immigrants is that they are fleeing war, civil war, political oppression, disease, poverty, tyranny, and drug cartels? Isn’t that kind of like fleeing s***holes?
A lot of that money was eaten up with administrative costs. Haiti does have a sewage system. It is called Haiti. We need compassionaate people like Sean Penn who are sick of the repressive U.S. to move there and improve the situation. No need to bend a knee during the Haitan national anthem. You knee might just land on something that doesn’t smell too good. Shithole is Newyorkese for a place that lacks luxuries like tiolot paper.
President Ulysses S. Grant mentioned in his memoirs that he wanted the US Congress to purchase the island of Santo Domingo (the same island where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are now) for the purpose of resettling freed slaves. His proposal was not acted upon.
Haiti was a French slave colony, but the rulers were greatly outnumbered by slaves and were overthrown in a revolution (1791-1804). Forty years later, the Spanish occupants rebelled and established their own government in the Dominican Republic.
t should be remembered that two nations are based on the same island (separated by a mountain rande): Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
The middle man handling the money is getting wealthy.
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Are these places geographically prohibited from installing such a utility? If not, they are indeed shitholes. What other description could be used that would be more accurate? Is the language a bit course? Yes, but so what? It simply continues to allow the left to expose its hypocrisy and hate.
“This is for the boys, this is for the teacher, and this is for the girls,” Elma says. “This is the first time they are using a toilet that smells so good.”
Oh oh.
Nothing for trannies or the 37 other varieties of “gender”?
They are going to be in trouble with the SJWs!/S
Anyone who thinks genes don't matter, need only look to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican Republic has a vibrant economy attributable to beautiful resorts, and an industrious populace, all anchored with a solid manufacturing base, particularly in clothing and textiles. GDP growth rate is the highest in the Western Hemisphere, and has been averaging about 7% per year, truly phenomenal.
Comparing the Dominican Republic to Haiti is comparing Rodeo Drive to the slums of Detroit. Interestingly there is no "refugee" problem with the Dominican Republic. And the Dominican Republic is hard core in securing its border with Haiti. Needless to say, any Haitian sauntering over across that border is dealt with severely.
Same island, same climate. Different outcomes. — a perfect controlled experiment. One country is the gem of the Caribbean, the other is a third world shi+hole.
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#1 - Girl on the right is butt-ugly
#2 - Chelsea has never looked go good
There are millions of illegals in America that are great wealth creators and workers. Haiti is poor and needs it infra structure built up. Is anyone else thinking what I am thinking?
That’s true. The Spanish rebelled after forty years of corrupt mismanagement by the Creoles, who had overthrown the French, and founded their own nation on the opposite side of the island which is not as nearly depressed and backwards. The Dominican Republican is hardly a paradise, but it much better than the hell that is Haiti.
With all the millions/billions given to Haiti over the years, it should be a tropical paradise by now. The church I attend, as well as, many other churches, send people, medical help, supplies and money to Haiti many times a year — year after year, after year, and it never gets better.
On the left is the Haiti I remember. Hasn’t changed. It makes Calcutta (or Kolkata if preferred) look like Palm Springs. On the right, ouch! Better use a spinner lure.
Farmers and Doctors can’t compete with free food and free medical care.
The Foreign Aid creates a permanent Cycle of Dependency.
Frankly, the only solution would be to colonize Haiti for a period of twenty years, build the infrastructure and then turn it over to the Haitians. Yes, it would be expensive, but at least the money we’re throwing at them would actually improve the quality of life. But of course it will never happen.
The middle man handling the money is getting wealthy.
This is one of those times when I wish Trump wasn’t right, at least in the literal sense. Haiti is literally a sh*thole.
Whaaaaaat? Chelsea’s not wearing her upside-down cross in that pic?
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