Comments on: Update III: Olby Sweats Haiti (Robertson Vs. The Devil)

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:59:40 +0000

We should provide the Haitians with as much food, water and medical help as we can. This is only right. We should not take Haiti on as a project. We’ve poured billions of dollars down that corrupt rat hole to no avail. (Sounds like American cities, but I digress.) Haiti, like Africa, is a feel good project for American leftists. However, in years to come, We’ll feel good about our generosity, at least the stupid ones among us, but the poor, barely out of the stone age Haitians will still be languishing in grinding poverty, and voodoo.

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:44:31 +0000

“Chocolate City” isn’t something I made up. It was said by Mayor Ray Nagin of NO, a black man, while giving a speech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_City_speech

[Then next time provide a link.–IM]

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:50:13 +0000

Someone at work recently asked me if I planned on making a donation to the Haiti relief effort. I replied that I paid my taxes last year, so my donation has already been made for me.

Just like New Orleans, Haiti is black-ruled. The blacks rule their island with no interference from whites (unless you count all that foreign aid), everything is black-owned, etc. It is essentially everything American blacks say they want. Yet, for some reason, it doesn’t seem to be working out very well.

Curious, that.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:36:23 +0000

Kristoff needs to study history a bit more before spouting off. Haiti had a large garment industry at one time, until Aristide and his “liberation theology” came along. Mixing it with a healthy dose of Marxism, he demonized the foreign owners of the sweatshops and made life so difficult (and dangerous) for the expatriate management that they simply closed up shop.

Aristide of course was later kicked out and was briefly a man without a country until his communist buddies in the ANC rescued him. He now lives in comfort in South Africa sustained by the few remaining taxpayers there.

By: Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:10:15 +0000

Please! The minute The Gap or any clothing firm sets up shop in Haiti, the NY Times will be whining about "slave wages" and "sweat shops."

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:45:49 +0000

David Drake’s short story, “The noble Savages”, from his book ‘All the way to the gallows’ pg 98. (Black humor) contains the line, “Poor guy, Focused on Truth in a society dominated by Fairness.” Today, Obly appears focused on fairness in a country dominated by truth. That’s alright though because Alice will meet the Mad Hatter in chapter three and it is because I said it was.

By: George Pal

George Pal — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:38:18 +0000

Leave it to a Rhodes scholar to lose himself in a spreadsheet and a haversack full of hackneyed solutions. Mr. Kristof should look to the one tried and true means of dealing with obdurate, maladjusted, maladaptive, degenerate societies – full-scale, unmitigated, unapologetic… colonialism.

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:08:15 +0000

Kristof is a buffoon.

Uncle Sam has squandered tens of billions of dollars on Puerto Rico, yet Puerto Rico is still a Third World island.

Ilana is correct when she says,”…utilized most efficiently.”