[Rev. Jim Osborne]

Re: Tragedy in Haiti: quake kills US citizen!

This is probably the second greatest thing to come out of Haiti since the AIDS! If anything, this has made Haiti economically stronger. Allow me to elaborate. Haiti has a large gap between the rich and the poor. Think back to the halcyon days of Papa Doc Duvalier. Now in this earthquake (or any other natural disaster) the vast majority of casualties will be the poorest of people.

By killing off many poor people, it slightly raises the average wage and GDP because the bottom end is no more. Their society is not as burdened as it was by a bunch of beggars and lazy people who don't want to work, because all those leeches are now rotting under the rubble. That's a lot of dead weight, pardon the pun.

[Marshall]

Re: Tragedy in Haiti: quake kills US citizen!

Amen to that. Maybe now that island can be used for something besides a satanic AIDS petri dish. Bananas and zombie dust isn't enough to support a nations economy. There needs to be something else and now that the trash is being removed by Jesus perhaps coffee plantations or something can be planted. Starbucks might be interested in opening a corporate office there. Surrounded by a fence of course. I wonder if tobacco would grow there.

[I'm just a naughty boy]

Re: Tragedy in Haiti: quake kills US citizen!

This is probably the second greatest thing to come out of Haiti since the AIDS! If anything, this has made Haiti economically stronger. Allow me to elaborate. Haiti has a large gap between the rich and the poor. Think back to the halcyon days of Papa Doc Duvalier. Now in this earthquake (or any other natural disaster) the vast majority of casualties will be the poorest of people.

By killing off many poor people, it slightly raises the average wage and GDP because the bottom end is no more. Their society is not as burdened as it was by a bunch of beggars and lazy people who don't want to work, because all those leeches are now rotting under the rubble. That's a lot of dead weight, pardon the pun.

I waas starting to agree with you until I read the second paragraph, which sickened me almost as much as Marshall does.

[Marshall]

Re: Tragedy in Haiti: quake kills US citizen!

If all the worthless leeches are killed off in a great big smiting while the contributing members are not, how can that NOT be a positive and uplifting event?
I have seen the pictures and it seems that only the lowest of the low are being killed which seems fair since they don't do anything to make the island better.
They weren't doing anything before the quake, now they have something to do. Too bad it isn't a job.

[Oakland "Reb" Griner]

Re: Tragedy in Haiti: quake kills US citizen!

Haitian Tragedy Compounded !!

6 Americans now confirmed dead!!



Let's take a moment of silence as we contemplate the tragic sacrifice of these 6 Americans in the cesspool that was (and is) Haiti.