Haiti And Foreign Aid — Let’s Keep It Foreign

By James Fulford

01/05/2011

In Slate, Maura R. O'Connor asks if foreign aid isn’t doing Haiti more harm than good.
One year after the earthquake, Haitians wonder whether international aid is keeping their country poor. (1) — By Maura R. O'Connor — Slate Magazine

The Most Dependent Independent Nation in the World, Posted Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, at 7:04 AM ET

The answer is probably yes. See Let them work out their own problems.” — Economist Peter Bauer’s work on developing areas, By Peter Brimelow, Forbes, February 22, 1988

It the same thing that makes welfare bad for you. But Haiti, like most welfare recipients, would have problems even if it weren’t for foreign aid.

Haiti has been independent and troubled since 1804, when, after a historic voodoo ceremony, they killed or drove out all the white people on the island.

If help is to be provided to Haitians, it should be provided in Haiti, instead of trying to bring the Haitians and their problems in Haiti to the United States to be fixed.

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