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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 1426867" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>All I'm saying is that <u>all</u> of the people aren't moochers - a lot of folks in Puert Au Prince are but that's like any big city here (picture New York, etc... lots of folks figure out quickly that begging is actually better money than working for themselves) but there are a lot of folks working for literally nothing in PaP and there are some who can't get a job because no one will hire them.</p><p></p><p>And when you get away from the big cities, the attitude gets better - there are a lot of good folks willing to do just about anything to make a dollar, but there is no money to be had, so they fish for their dinner (there is almost no wild animals over there or usable soil), or starve.</p><p></p><p>They don't have a lot of the basic infrastructure over there that we have to provide jobs (i.e. no trash service, no sewer service, no electric service, etc...). </p><p></p><p>I don't believe we should be paying their government anything, but if we had spent even a fraction of the resources helping them start over from scratch that we did Iraq, they'd be better off for it.</p><p></p><p>The people are disarmed, beaten down, and starving - to say they need to stand on their own feet and fight for what they want is to misunderstand what its like to live in a place with no rights/weapons/food while the government can do what ever they want to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 1426867, member: 229"] All I'm saying is that [U]all[/U] of the people aren't moochers - a lot of folks in Puert Au Prince are but that's like any big city here (picture New York, etc... lots of folks figure out quickly that begging is actually better money than working for themselves) but there are a lot of folks working for literally nothing in PaP and there are some who can't get a job because no one will hire them. And when you get away from the big cities, the attitude gets better - there are a lot of good folks willing to do just about anything to make a dollar, but there is no money to be had, so they fish for their dinner (there is almost no wild animals over there or usable soil), or starve. They don't have a lot of the basic infrastructure over there that we have to provide jobs (i.e. no trash service, no sewer service, no electric service, etc...). I don't believe we should be paying their government anything, but if we had spent even a fraction of the resources helping them start over from scratch that we did Iraq, they'd be better off for it. The people are disarmed, beaten down, and starving - to say they need to stand on their own feet and fight for what they want is to misunderstand what its like to live in a place with no rights/weapons/food while the government can do what ever they want to you. [/QUOTE]
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