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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 1426446" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>If you've never been to Haiti, then you don't know how truly bad it is. They're not all moochers (I'd say we've got plenty more here than they do).</p><p></p><p>I've got a couple of friends over there from a mission/humanitarian trip a while back and Haiti's biggest problem is that the richest 5% take all of the money and give nothing to the people (the richest 5% are not self-made businessmen/women, but rather corrupt government officials, drug cartels, and the like who are basically stealing money from the people).</p><p></p><p>It creates a sort of hustler atmosphere where everyone on the island is willing to screw everyone else because no one has ever given them a helping hand (and everyone else is trying to screw them). I saw it time and time again when over there - if a group of folks did a job, you didn't pay one of them because they wouldn't share the money with the others - but to be fair, their family was starving just like the others and its dog-eat-dog everywhere over there. </p><p></p><p>We got shaken down by local authorities on more than one occassion. They are nearly all corrupt from the lowliest port-authority worker to nearly every cop I met. You have no rights on that island.</p><p></p><p>If you've never lost all hope because you don't have access to (anywhere on the island that you live) clean drinking water, medicine, food, a job, education, clothing, decent shelter, a sewer system, electricity, etc... you really can't judge.</p><p></p><p>Their political system turns on them no matter who ends up in charge and the rest of the world fails to step in and get the evil dictators out of office (because they have nothing of value to the rest of the world). They've had leaders on-par with Sadaam in the recent past and no one helped free them.</p><p></p><p>Mix in one of the largest AIDS outbreaks on the planet per capita and a dis-armed population with government-armed thugs and a drug-cartel who is allowed to operate freely anywhere they wish, and you've got a very bad environment full of folks who actually have a reason to give up on life.</p><p></p><p>I've seen worse attitudes in the US, but never worse conditions than Haiti. When I left that place, I had a very good friend who took care of me while I was there and showed me around the local population - I gave him nearly all my clothes, medicine, food, and cash I could spare before I left and still felt like I was leaving him in hell.</p><p></p><p>I was playing basketball on one of my few down-afternoons there and the entire game stopped when a fruit fell from a tree hanging over the dirt-court - those guys literally fought over it and when I asked my friend why all the commotion, he said that most of those guys had no ability to go to school, and no one would hire them to work, so they just went without food for days at a time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 1426446, member: 229"] If you've never been to Haiti, then you don't know how truly bad it is. They're not all moochers (I'd say we've got plenty more here than they do). I've got a couple of friends over there from a mission/humanitarian trip a while back and Haiti's biggest problem is that the richest 5% take all of the money and give nothing to the people (the richest 5% are not self-made businessmen/women, but rather corrupt government officials, drug cartels, and the like who are basically stealing money from the people). It creates a sort of hustler atmosphere where everyone on the island is willing to screw everyone else because no one has ever given them a helping hand (and everyone else is trying to screw them). I saw it time and time again when over there - if a group of folks did a job, you didn't pay one of them because they wouldn't share the money with the others - but to be fair, their family was starving just like the others and its dog-eat-dog everywhere over there. We got shaken down by local authorities on more than one occassion. They are nearly all corrupt from the lowliest port-authority worker to nearly every cop I met. You have no rights on that island. If you've never lost all hope because you don't have access to (anywhere on the island that you live) clean drinking water, medicine, food, a job, education, clothing, decent shelter, a sewer system, electricity, etc... you really can't judge. Their political system turns on them no matter who ends up in charge and the rest of the world fails to step in and get the evil dictators out of office (because they have nothing of value to the rest of the world). They've had leaders on-par with Sadaam in the recent past and no one helped free them. Mix in one of the largest AIDS outbreaks on the planet per capita and a dis-armed population with government-armed thugs and a drug-cartel who is allowed to operate freely anywhere they wish, and you've got a very bad environment full of folks who actually have a reason to give up on life. I've seen worse attitudes in the US, but never worse conditions than Haiti. When I left that place, I had a very good friend who took care of me while I was there and showed me around the local population - I gave him nearly all my clothes, medicine, food, and cash I could spare before I left and still felt like I was leaving him in hell. I was playing basketball on one of my few down-afternoons there and the entire game stopped when a fruit fell from a tree hanging over the dirt-court - those guys literally fought over it and when I asked my friend why all the commotion, he said that most of those guys had no ability to go to school, and no one would hire them to work, so they just went without food for days at a time. [/QUOTE]
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