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01-18-2010, 02:41 PM #1
Haiti: Humanitarian Aid to Repay an Odious Debt?
Haiti: Humanitarian Aid to Repay an Odious Debt?
by Eric Toussaint and Sophie Perchellet
CADTM (le Comité pour l’Annulation de la Dette du Tiers Monde)
January 18, 2010
There is a great risk that one of the largest relief operations in history will be similar in nature to the tsunami relief efforts in 2004, unless a radically different approach to a reconstruction model is adopted. Haiti was partially destroyed by an earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale. We have all shed tears and the media, as they bombard us with apocalyptic images, report on financial pledges generous States have made. We know that Haiti needs to be rebuilt, this country hard-hit by poverty and “its curseâ€
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01-18-2010, 02:54 PM #2
Someone has a bone to pick with the US all the time.
We are NOT a nation of immigrants!
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01-18-2010, 06:12 PM #3Originally Posted by IndianaJones
When prisoners from Europe were exiled to what now is Australia....those prisoners succeeded in making a decent country of the place. And it was just dirt when they were sent there.
Same thing with the American pioneer. The country was basically just dirt and they made a decent country. It was not easy, but they did it. And they had to fight off the English first....but they did it.
So why is it that countries like Haiti and others like it have not done this? So what if they were slaves, that was then and this is now. There is no excuse for them to be in the shape they are in. But oh....its not their fault...its whitie's fault.
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