Its discusting!
We all know this happens, that is the worst thing.
This has happened for hundereds of years and its still happening in our advanced modern culture. Makes you sick it really does!

Makes you wonder if the French are going to stick Haiti with the bill for any relief aid that they provide.

Slavery works a lot better for the OWNER, if you don't have to guard your property. The French even came up with Amortization tables to see how their "assets depreciated over time." Roughly translated; when do they work themselves to death?

Isn't it appropriate to just pay for this whole cleanup with taxes on Corn Syrup companies like AMD -- or how about the new slave holders paying for their investment -- aw heck, I forgot, we keep focusing on the value of "charity" because we don't want people who work for things to feel "entitled" to a living wage or anything. Haitians have been getting a survival wage.

You have to wonder if some of the News Crews flocking to the country for their disaster porn aren't spending more watts on blow dryers for reporters wearing $200 Kaki vests to make their hair that perfect balance of salon beauty and "Wolf Blitzer" shock and awe -- it's all about the Zazz folks!

I wonder if the Haitian's will have to work for $.26 an hour to repay all our kindness vs. the $.27 an hour they make.

The earthquake they experienced was inevitable --but their horrible building codes, lack of infrastructure, and poverty would not.

It made me pretty sick to hear Limbaugh say; "we already donate to Haiti -- it's called US taxes." Were those the "taxes" you paid vacationing in the Dominican Republic with a bottle of Viagra, Rush? I mean, what's there for his vacation beyond little people you can adopt for $50? Maybe he needed to save money at his resort -- must be tough on his salary to go to Cabo.

I think that, the Haitians and a lot of other people could forego all of US charity combined if we KEPT 99.9% of our tax dollars on the military that insures places like Haiti and Honduras never, ever get control of their own lives.

Since we don't get irony in this country; around $35 Billion in INCREASED military spending was approved for the military operation in Afghanistan -- because it was really important to find and torture a few cab drivers.

More than that is going to bonuses on Wall Street -- the same people who make money on money and not doing anything.

When Bush and Clinton showed up to beg for charity -- it brought a tear to my eye. I mean, Bush ousted Aristeed, and Clinton helped shut down their internal police in exchange for ruining their Sugar industry. Had to make US corn syrup economically competitive because we can't have our children eating sugar!
The ousting of Aristeed a couple times by both Bush president's probably didn't help.

The absolute ignorance in this country of what we do and are still doing is amazing. And the news media didn't pick up on the Oil Infrastructure Improvements starting up in Iraq (it wasn't for oil people) 7 years after we invaded because Saddam was an undemocratic bad man (and Aristeed was too Democratically elected?) The media didn't cover 20 million people protesting "no blood for oil."

Why do Haitians get shipped back to their country when people from Cuba get amnesty? Now, Cuba is sending medical help and aide to Haiti. If you are going to be desperate and poor -- make sure you are escaping a Communist Dictatorship and not merely trying to get out of paying off a permanent debt at $.27 an hour.

Why isn't it a paradise there -- when it has the LEAST corporate regulations of any country on earth?

Oh, nothing new. Some countries are forced to take loans, some are just gladly doing it (US) - but the end result is the same - a new form of global taxation . How much % of your income goes on paying interest? individuals, companies, cities and countries are ALL in debt at the same time. Someone must be rich out-there, dont you think?
It would be an interesting thread to actually study who owes money to who , a "follow the money" thread!

[edit on 19-1-2010 by Romanian]

the untied states is actually infamous for doing this to smaller countries.

they send in "economic hit men" and then that country is in debt to the U.S. forever.

nothing new.

If you really think about it, this happens everywhere in the world. We are constantly hit by debts so that we may never reach the elite. Debt is a system of control which is forced down most people's throats. The only difference with them is that their nation is too small to pay such big debts.

Personally, I think the whole money systems needs a big revision. This system was designed so that few people take hold of most of the riches while others get squeezed for their last pennies.

Very interesting indeed. Add in corruption by Haiti's leadership and it's no wonder that Haiti is at the bottom of the world. Haiti has been robbed and kept down. Kept from ever becoming independent and an equal member of humanity. As long as the inhabitants were black, those that controlled the wealth of nations raped and pillaged everything that Haiti had to offer. Then they blamed the results on the blacks to imply that all the poverty and lack of civilization was to be blamed on ignorant black people.

Lastly I would add that someone should explain in terms the general public could understand just how the Mayans had a civilization for over 500 yrs without a currency. That small point of history would have been something I wanted to pursue when I was in college, but alas, those days are far behind me.

I just feel that in today's terms of learning from the past, we should learn how The Mayan civilization of such huge size could exist and function without a currency. Anyway, its just a thought that I always felt we could learn from and benefit from.

the Haiti situation makes a lot more sense now. The World Bank and/or IMF + weather control machines e.g. Nikolas Tesla = man made disasters in territories that can't pay the $$ back or won't change their policies.

Originally posted by MaxBlack
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Lastly I would add that someone should explain in terms the general public could understand just how the Mayans had a civilization for over 500 yrs without a currency. That small point of history would have been something I wanted to pursue when I was in college, but alas, those days are far behind me.

I just feel that in today's terms of learning from the past, we should learn how The Mayan civilization of such huge size could exist and function without a currency. Anyway, its just a thought that I always felt we could learn from and benefit from.

Cant say as I agree.
from what I understand the pagan Mayans had jade, gold, slaves and must have traded substantially
Money [ currency] is not evil- but like the Bible says:
Love of it is!