John H wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:48:58 -0700, Canuck57
wrote:

On 17/01/2010 6:28 PM, lil abner wrote:
bpuharic wrote:
Illegal immigrants from Haiti have no reason to fear deportation, but
if they are deported, Haiti is in great need of relief workers, and
many of them could be a big help to their fellow Haitians," -
Congressman Steve King (R-IA).
It is probably better to spend money rescuing Haiti than to bring them
here longterm or permanent residents.
The problem I see is finding Haitians to develop the Haitian economy.
They have a lot of resources but they have not moved beyond a third
world economy.
I believe it is because there are too many Haitians for their easily
utilized resource.
They have not had any effective leadership.
It seems from any report over the decades that small gangs etc run the
country.
I don't see how we can show these folks how to take care, of themselves.
It is going to take outside Leadership and economic enterprise.
It's a lot closer to Haiti than to China.
This is a humanitarian disaster that started decades ago. This we agree.

Assuming 1/2 the land is suitable for human habitation which may be
wildly optimistic, as you can't park your home on the waters edge
litterally, the population density is about 700 per sq. kilometer. Or
about 1100 people per square mile. The land is stripped for what is
useable and food is imported as there is no where to grow what they need
for self sufficiency.

With that level of over population, not really much one can do for the
economy either. Building earth quake resistant structures takes space,
100 square feet per family isn't going to do. And who pays? Will they
work or are they a herd of squaters?

Not sure there is any other choice. But persents a problem as most of
the population, 80% have below average skills in basic reading, have
never known a life without gang rule, servatude and bound to be a
problem in the NA society.

But forced birth control is in order here, it is insane to let them
breed children into desperation, starvation, disease, illiteracy...not
humane at all and absolutely irresponsible. They need a heavy handed
benevolant dictator that will have to do some nasty stuff to bring this
part of the world into the 21st century. Trouble is there are not that
many good dictators.

Nasty problem.

About 80% of the Haitian population are Roman Catholics. Until the RC
church changes it's position on artificial birth control,
overpopulation will be a huge problem. Haiti is one example of the
extreme problems caused by the Chuch's position on birth control.
--
John H


Aren't you RC? What are you doing to get your church to change its
policy on this issue?

I'll bet...nothing.