Matt Bors for August 08, 2011
August 05, 2011
August 10, 2011
Transcript:
I spent the month of July working on a comics journalism project in Haiti.... ahhh! Where 600,000 people still live in tent camps. If Haitians can't find work, they have to depend on charity. Matt Bors: Does the government provide any services here? Man: What government? A cell phone company built the street signs... Digicel Rue Gregoire (In the better neighborhoods) And you can build away without bureaucrats meddling in your affairs. Yet a ton of people line up at the U.S. Embassy every morning to get out. Matt Bors: So in the States we have this thing called the TEA PARTY. You'll love this...
stoic567 over 12 years ago
Haiti is the inevitable result of community organizing.
grayhares01 over 12 years ago
Only an idiot would think that the left in this country is right of center. Seriously, how brain dead can you be?
grayhares01 over 12 years ago
So left them learn from the mess they made and stop propping them up. Nature has a great system of balance. Only a libtard thinks he can fool with it and everything will be better…
charliekane over 12 years ago
So greyhares is a Lathe of Heaven kinda guy/gal?
I am often appalled by the ignornace on display here. A little kowledge of history can often be curative.
Why is Haiti so messed up?
It was a French colony, for starters, and kinda went downhill from there.
Banish ignorance! Read a bit. On the net, information is literally at your fingertips.
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/misctopic/leftover/whypoor.htm
feverjr Premium Member over 12 years ago
At one time, Haiti was considered one of the richest places on earth. It supplied most of the sugar and coffee to France and through them to the rest of Europe. Haiti was controlled by the French who brought in slaves to work the suger cane and ship it back to France. Slavery in Haiti was brutal, when they revolted and defeated the French, Napoleon gave up on conquests in the west and sold the Louisiana Purchase.
I spent two years stationed in Haiti, during the time of Jean Claude Duvalier. It was a beautiful country, with proud, lovely people. Yes, it had voodoo, it had a “President for Life” … a dictator; it had the Tonton Macoutes, a private secret police that was controlled by Simone, Jean Claude’s mother, who was set against her son getting married to Michelle. (even had “royal” gossip)
At least it was a functioning country until we forced the Duvaliers to leave.
In 1984 Ernest Preeg, U.S. ambassador to Haiti (1981–1983), wrote a monograph on Haiti’s part in the Reagan Caribbean Basin Initiative. One paragraph stated …“It can honestly be said that the Jean-Claude Duvalier presidency is the longest period of violence-free stability in the nation’s history.”
In January 1986, the Reagan administration began to pressure Duvalier to renounce his rule and to leave Haiti.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Duvalier
We couldn’t leave it alone. We decided that no government was better than a functioning dictatorship. This is what no government looks like.
yohannbiimu over 12 years ago
You’re a Biblical illiterate…