[cajonnmu]

yea bob.. start out a slave revolution in a sea of slave countries with a completely uneducated population on a pile of mountains one third of a little desert island where all the plantation heads have been lobbed off and the lands cut up into ittty bitty farms and handed out to the army for their pay.... and of course you have NO consensus on where the hell you are going.. since the French have barely had a revolution and the US is only 15 years old.....


and you struggle along for 100 years


and then have a couple of US occupations and embargos and a really awful dictator....

but by 1979 you have more tourists that the DR and good law and order and you are supporting your population in food.. not progress but not so bad

then you lose all your pigs to the swine flu... under orders from the US to slaughter them to reduce the risk of the spread.. then the US introduces the IOWA pig which eats more than 13 Haitians

Then the US introduces cheap US rice.... heavily subsidized... after forcing you to reduce your protective tarriffs in return for aid

and then a lefist priest with the support of the international left and all my well meaning friends//// talked about nationalizing the banks and stoked a class war so the US withheld funding and the factories withdrew and folks started burning the remaining middle class homes and everyone who could leave.. and who had not left because of Duvalier, left then

and do not forget the cocaine cartels who are running 15 percent of the US coke through there


lest we forget

the hurricanes
the floods

the earthquakes
the

complete lack of infrastructure

AND

WOW

you wonder that it is a not a DEMOCRACY?

and just WHO is to blame?

Shall we just agree that

Mistakes were made

and

we start from where we are

(besides, I think the jury is still out on this democracy stuff.. I am not so keen on how the US is turning out and that is the oldest one that we have.. .. ok.. a republic.. and perhaps it may turn out to be one yet/