Well, here we are with yet another natural disaster, this time in The Jewel of the Caribbean, Haiti. Haiti, if none of you is aware, shares the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles with The Dominican Republic. What a stark difference in countries, while half of the island (the Dominican half) is relatively prosperous. Haiti, on the other hand (you have 4 fingers and a thumb) is dirt poor and boasts a literacy rate of only about 50% (if that). The average tin shack dwelling denizens of Haiti live quite extravagantly on about $2.00 a day. The Dominican Republic, on the other hand, has the second largest economy in the Central Americas.
Between 1995 and 1999 the USA has given roughly $900,000 in foreign aid to Haiti. Eeney Meenie Miney Mo, where the hell did all that money go? It must have all gone to a new invisible high tech infrastructure. Well, if it was there before, it isn’t now; it’s covered with rubble and dead buried bodies.
I’m thinking that their sanitation system is pretty well tasked by now. Since the location of this island is in the Caribbean, all those bodies buried in the rubble have got to be getting pretty ripe by now.
Anyway, I digress.
It seems our illustrious President (and I use the term loosely) has pledged $100,000,000 in aide to this country, with another $100,000,000 on its heels. One has to wonder, since Barack and his left wing, socialist comrades in Washington are well on their way to bankrupting this country, where is that money coming from? A lot of the very wealthy Middle Eastern countries have not ponyed up a single dollar, Dinar or whatever. Only Israel is lending a helping hand with labor and desalinization equipment. You would think that since there is a holy war going on between the Christian- Judea peoples and the Muslims, they would want to promote good will towards the Muslim religion with Haiti’s people and turn them against us.
Can’t seem to stop rambling.
There seems to be an idea afloat that the USA should rebuild Haiti. I can’t imagine why since it was nothing to start with. Maybe what we should do is send arms to the Dominicans and let them take over the whole island, everyone would certainly be better off except maybe the crooks running the country.
Wait a minute, which crooks are running which country? I keep forgetting. Oh yeah, that’s right, they’re all crooks and it doesn’t matter what country it is…mad cow you know.
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As I mentioned to friends of mine I had a picture in my head of Haiti. It is of a 100,000 little shacks with cardboard walls and concreate ceilings. I imagine that all the Haitans were inside these shacks at the time of the quake and FWOP- the walls gave and elimated a lot of mouths to feed all at once. That is great design work on the part of the shack builders union. I feel bad for the suffering but they could do just like the cubans, put together a cardboard raft and float on over to Miami. I think the real loser in all this is cardboard. What a bad rap.
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