Haiti

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Surprised nobody has started a thread on this.

are these people of everyoness radar?

 

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/three-million-suffer-in-haiti-earthquake/story-e6frg6so-1225819029913

[BelgianBoy]

a total catastrophy for a country that already has nothing left !

last year hurricanes, now a quake ..... sad.

 

BB

[Steve]

Doesn't Haiti have the unenviable distinction of being the poorest country in the western hemisphere?

 

If there ever is a country that didn't need this and a country that would be my rare exception to be invaded, taken over and part of the American doctrine of 'nation building' its Haiti.

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I may be wrong but isn't Haiti a source of manufacturing for the US and due to some obscure arrangement they can legally identify items as Made In USA

 

Or is that Honduras?

[chuckwoww]

It's very sad. Last thing they needed. I see Pat Robertson wasted no time in calling it a punishment.

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/sns-dc-robertson-haiti,0,1175550.story

[Flashermac]

It's because Haitians are Roman Catholics (... plus Voodoo). If they were Muslims, Allah would protect them - just like Indonesia.

 

 

p.s. Somebody really needs to throw a net over Pat Robertson. That idiot is a certifiable lunatic!

 

 

 

[chuckwoww]

Didn't he say the same thing about Hurricane Katrina?

[Hugh_Hoy]

Khun Bust...the import tax preference is a bit of trivia few probably know about. There are some provisons in U.S. law which allow the import of some articles assembled in Haiti which incorporate U.S.-made components. Also, some textiles/apparel are allowed into the U.S. tax free.

 

Man, I look at the devastation on TV and on the net and I can't think of anything worse happening to those folks. They barely had a pot to piss in and then something took even that away.

 

IMO, Haiti will always be poor. It is in the bottom five countries in the world in terms of per capita income (about $400/year).

 

HH

[Bangkoktraveler]

It's very sad. Last thing they needed. I see Pat Robertson wasted no time in calling it a punishment.

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/sns-dc-robertson-haiti,0,1175550.story

 

 

 

Pat Robertson is a jerk! Hard to believe such self righteous jackasses still exist.

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Khun Bust...the import tax preference is a bit of trivia few probably know about. There are some provisons in U.S. law which allow the import of some articles assembled in Haiti which incorporate U.S.-made components. Also, some textiles/apparel are allowed into the U.S. tax free.

 

Man, I look at the devastation on TV and on the net and I can't think of anything worse happening to those folks. They barely had a pot to piss in and then something took even that away.

 

IMO, Haiti will always be poor. It is in the bottom five countries in the world in terms of per capita income (about $400/year).

 

HH

Thanks for clarifying that and yes you are right it is an obscure thing but stuff like that sticks in my mind.

 

Funny though how the poorest are usually the most resilient. In ecology, the term resilience is used to mean the ability of populations to rebound after a shock to the system. Some physcologists think that populations exposed to minor shocks are better equipped to handle the once-in-a-lifetime, catastrophic shocks. It’s the scientific form of the adage “What doesn’t kill you makes you betterâ€Â, I suppose.