[yharmon6614]

Nals, I am at a loss to understand your figures...how you got the figures or even what they mean..

As can be clearly seen further up in the thread, Mariot started to mention government budget and how the DR should get rid of the debt and use the extra money to spend in Haití. So, what better way to knock down his idiotic idea by presenting how much money each government receives from their population on a per capita basis. Then one would have to deduct all the other expenses such as payment on the debt, public education, public health, etc. But, for the sake of simplicity, those expenses were ignored to get the highest figure possible, for which the DR resulted in roughly US$700. If the Dominican budget was to be shared with Haiti, per capita it would result US$355.

Now, deduct all the fixed expenses and obligations, on a per capita basis, from that figure (ie. debt, public works, etc - assuming only the current Dominican expenses, obvious the figures would be considerably lower if the Haitian necessities were also included) and then we can see how much money will be available, per person, to spend on Haiti.

My message is that, not only is Mariot's proposition completely impossible to do since it will result in negligible enhancements in Haiti and considerable degradations in the DR; but that he's simply debating for the sake of debating. He doesn't want to accept that there is nothing the DR can do to fix Haiti's problems. Those problems will only be fixed once Haiti and the international community together decide to develop Haiti.

If the DR is left with this issue, the effect of Dominican help will be no different from what happened immediately after the earthquake. Millions spent and in the end, whatever few changes have been seen in Haiti are certainly not due to the Dominican help.

Most of the sick and injured remained in Haiti. Most of the people that moved into tents in 2010 are still living in tents. Haitian reality is has hardly changed, the massive Dominican help notwithstanding.

Now, if what he wants is for some other country to help Haiti and for that help to actually have a visible and positive effect, then why not go after other countries that had much to do with Haiti in the not so distant past. There are countries that collect much more revenue on a per capita basis than does the DR and Haiti combined, and, in theory, would be able to spend much more money on Haití while not causing havoc at home. Not so with the DR or any other country in the Caribbean.

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