Same to you, of course, I have no animosity toward you as an individual. And you are free to believe anything you wish. But to ask me -- or the nation -- to form a "symbiotic relationship" with Haiti or any third world country is ultimately doomed to failure, wasted resources, and disappointment for both parties.
We cannot lift up Haiti any more than we can lift up people out of poverty and ignorance here at home. We've tried... Lord, have we tried. For decades of the "Great Society" (thank you LBJ) and the so-called "War on Poverty" we have nothing to show for it. In the "war on poverty" it turns out the Poverty won.
America is a prime example of a people pulling themselves up by our own bootstraps, creating a nation out of the raw wilderness, building cities and a culture that spreads from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and with no help from anyone else. There existed in us a divine spark of creativity and purpose to create what had never been created before.... a prosperous society with individual freedoms, living as a nation of laws, and under a Constitution.
The sad reality is, we cannot export that to other countries. We've tried. And we've failed.
So, other than wishing the Haitians (and the third world) well, let me get back to my original statement. I don't care. And no amount of rhetoric can ever MAKE me care. It's up to the Haitians to lift themselves up, and they've been failing at that since the 1700s in a predictable arc of failures, corruption, political murder, and more dysfunctions than can be cataloged here.
Same to you, of course, I have no animosity toward you as an individual. And you are free to believe anything you wish. But to ask me -- or the nation -- to form a "symbiotic relationship" with Haiti or any third world country is ultimately doomed to failure, wasted resources, and disappointment for both parties.
We cannot lift up Haiti any more than we can lift up people out of poverty and ignorance here at home. We've tried... Lord, have we tried. For decades of the "Great Society" (thank you LBJ) and the so-called "War on Poverty" we have nothing to show for it. In the "war on poverty" it turns out the Poverty won.
America is a prime example of a people pulling themselves up by our own bootstraps, creating a nation out of the raw wilderness, building cities and a culture that spreads from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and with no help from anyone else. There existed in us a divine spark of creativity and purpose to create what had never been created before.... a prosperous society with individual freedoms, living as a nation of laws, and under a Constitution.
The sad reality is, we cannot export that to other countries. We've tried. And we've failed.
So, other than wishing the Haitians (and the third world) well, let me get back to my original statement. I don't care. And no amount of rhetoric can ever MAKE me care. It's up to the Haitians to lift themselves up, and they've been failing at that since the 1700s in a predictable arc of failures, corruption, political murder, and more dysfunctions than can be cataloged here.