While waiting for the food trucks they can’t raise a garden without eating the seed? They can’t raise a chicken without eating it before it lays an egg? They can’t wait for a tree to bear fruit before chopping it down?
These people seem incredibly stupid.
Why is it, when a big rain washes a wall of their mud hut away, they can't seen to gather up all that mud and straw around them, make new sun dried bricks and fix it?
Why is it when their grass roof is full of holes, they can't get some more grass and patch it? it's growing all around them.
Why is it that they can weave mats to sell at the market for a few handfuls of grain, they can't weave some grass to fix their weaved grass roof? Window coverings to keep the mosquitoes out at night? Floor coverings so they don't sleep on dirt? Why walk ten miles for water to haul back to a grass shack in the middle of nowhere? Why not build another grass shack near the water? Why not kill a wild animal for some food when they come for water at the old watering hole? Surely they can catch at least one of those ten thousand wildebeest...
My brother and a number of others from local churches spent almost 10 years (my brother was there for 1 year) helping the Hatians build up a herd of cows, hogs, chickens, and a whole bunch of other agricultural enterprises in the late 1950’s.
My father, as well as other families donated, and paid to fly down lot’s of seed stock animals. The Hatians were trained over that 10 year period on the husbandry skills to continue the project and turn it into a living for thousands.
WIthin a year of the sucessful enterprises being turned over to the Hatians to continue, everything was killed and eaten by the Hatians. Years and years of effort for naught.
Let’m starve to death. They’ve earned it.