[WaicurtaitfuT]

Originally posted by Lancer
but for some in the country's most desperate quarters, where thousands buckle under rising food prices and rampant unemployment This is more relevant than

Originally posted by Lancer
When will people learn to stop having kids?

[invest7manager]

Originally posted by Heresson


heterosexual sex should be outlawed

[9V42h1eT]

I'd phrase the question differently:

When will developed countries provide poorer ones with contraception?

[TeksPaisimi]

Originally posted by Heraclitus
I'd phrase the question differently:

When will developed countries provide poorer ones with contraception? I'm pretty sure that the problem isn't too many brown people. More like too much oppression.

[Rellshare]

This is pretty typical but Haiti's food supply is artificially limited by a corrupt government of greedy kleptocrats as in most Third World shitholes.

They're eating dirt cookies because their government won't allow them access to anything else.

Not that sending them food/money will help anyway because the same shitheads in power will just keep it for themselves. So really, there's nothing to do but thank baby Jesus on your hands and knees that you weren't born in some horrible nightmare country like Haiti or Zimbabwe.

[ValintinoV]

Originally posted by Lancer
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Haiti-...08haitidirtmud;_ylt=AnNEuA1oOgGg_MOhMymzZugBxg8F

"A woman prepare cookies made of dirt, water, salt and butter on the the roof of Fort Dimanche, once a prison where is said the late dictator Francois Duvalier tortured his enemies, in Port-au-Prince, Thursday Nov. 29 2007. Pregnant women and children have long prized the dirt as a rich source of calcium and an effective antacid, but for some in the country's most desperate quarters, where thousands buckle under rising food prices and rampant unemployment, mud has become a daily staple."

Yikes, can people survive on mud?


When will people learn to stop having kids? Some parasites create a desire to eat dirt for some strange reason. leading to more parasites.

[Qualarrizab]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
This is pretty typical but Haiti's food supply is artificially limited by a corrupt government of greedy kleptocrats as in most Third World shitholes.

They're eating dirt cookies because their government won't allow them access to anything else.

Not that sending them food/money will help anyway because the same shitheads in power will just keep it for themselves. So really, there's nothing to do but thank baby Jesus on your hands and knees that you weren't born in some horrible nightmare country like Haiti or Zimbabwe.
Haiti is more like fifth world

[nvideoe]

Originally posted by Omni Rex Draconis
... Haiti was once a rich and verdant island, which could easily support their current density. Back in the days when sugar was King. Nowadays, sugar is cheap, and so any nation which relies upon it is dirt poor.

Like most Caribbean islands, they could do well with tourism... ...right. When I think of tropical paradises, Haiti pops to mind.

... and those who wish to invest "offshore". ...in the U.S., we call these people tax evaders.

[PHOTOSHOPoem]

Originally posted by Heresson
With such wise parasites, why are human Haitians failing so miserably to create a well-functioning society? I sometimes think about that too. It's actually a case of people being worse off left to their own devices than if they were conquered by a foreign power. There are other such places, mostly in Africa. I wonder what are the implications for the principle of soveregnitiy of countries.

Ironically, Haiti was the first decolonized country in the region.

[zithromaxlinks]

I wonder why cant Haiti be at least as wealthy as Dominican Republic.
DR is also a third world country, but the difference between Dominican Republic and Haiti is abysmal, it is hard to believe they are on the same island.

[Anykeylo]

Haiti has been raped and plundered by previous dictatorial regimes. Tropical wood was once it's primary source of income, but past regimes gave exporters carte blanche to take as much wood as they desired. Consequently Haiti has been nearly completely deforested, leading to not only a loss of income but also to a catastrophic loss of topsoil, depriving the country of its ability to grow even subsistence crops.

It wasn't the peasents' fault, it was the fault of Duvalier regimes. The reason why the DR is better off is that their dictators cared at least enough to conserve their natural resources.

[minowz]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
It's pretty sad to think that the brief US occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934 was arguably that nation's golden era. No, that was when all of today's problems were set in motion. It is continuous U.S. meddling in Haiti's affairs that is killing that country.

[intifatry]

that article is almost as good as the one on geophagia, but not quite.

[euylvaygdq]

If the USA even just reads about something, ownership of responsibility is passed to the USA.
That's the rules, didn't you know that?

[CaseyFan]

No, we'll likely either default on that or try to print our way out of it.