Breaking News: 7.0 Earthquake in Haiti

[Caliga]

As hard as it might be to say this disaster may be a good thing for Haiti in the long term.  IIRC one of Haiti's problems is that it's seriously overcrowded.  So those that manage to survive the earthquake's aftermath could be looking at a bit of a higher standard of living.

[Neil]

As hard as it might be to say this disaster may be a good thing for Haiti in the long term.  IIRC one of Haiti's problems is that it's seriously overcrowded.  So those that manage to survive the earthquake's aftermath could be looking at a bit of a higher standard of living.

I rather doubt it.  There's no incentive to build a civilization in Haiti.  All those who are ambitious go to better places, which is pretty much anywhere.

[Slargos]

As hard as it might be to say this disaster may be a good thing for Haiti in the long term.  IIRC one of Haiti's problems is that it's seriously overcrowded.  So those that manage to survive the earthquake's aftermath could be looking at a bit of a higher standard of living.

How long does it take to reproduce enough to replace the lost? A few years at most?

[CountDeMoney]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm all Haitianed out.

[Neil]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm all Haitianed out.

I've avoided the media for the last week.  Unfortunately, today and tomorrow are football days, which means all sorts of asides and commercials relating to that shitty country.

[Josephus]

See....didn't even take a week, and we're moving on already. Told you so.

[Slargos]

See....didn't even take a week, and we're moving on already. Told you so.

Racist. 

[katmai]

Slargy we already know that about you, no need to come in thread and remind us.

[Slargos]

Slargy we already know that about you, no need to come in thread and remind us.

I know you are, but what am I?

[Grallon]

I rather doubt it.  There's no incentive to build a civilization in Haiti.  All those who are ambitious go to better places, which is pretty much anywhere.

The papers this morning were mentioning that Canada is considering loosening its immigratio restrictions to facilitate the reunification of 'families' (aka tribes) on humanitarian grounds...  Now it's not only the 'middle-class' professionals and intellectuals we'll be taking in - it's the dirt poor whose habits will be carried over as well.  I expect more sectors of Montreal to be morphed into shantytowns. 



G.

[Josephus]

I rather doubt it.  There's no incentive to build a civilization in Haiti.  All those who are ambitious go to better places, which is pretty much anywhere.

The papers this morning were mentioning that Canada is considering loosening its immigratio restrictions to facilitate the reunification of 'families' (aka tribes) on humanitarian grounds...  Now it's not only the 'middle-class' professionals and intellectuals we'll be taking in - it's the dirt poor whose habits will be carried over as well.  I expect more sectors of Montreal to be morphed into shantytowns. 



G.

Wonder if we'd be doing this if it was any other 3rd world country other than Haiti, given our ties to it?

[DGuller]

I was also Haiti'd out after seeing the report on CNN on how the UN truck giving out the biscuits was mobbed, and the biscuits were stomped on, because a couple of idiots mistakenly thought they were expired.  The truck had to make a quick getaway without unloading most of its stuff.  That place is like the Somalia of the Americas.

[Grallon]

Wonder if we'd be doing this if it was any other 3rd world country other than Haiti, given our ties to it?

The Head of State is from Haiti (one of the aforementioned Diaspora of intellectuals and professionals), the haitian communities are large in Ontario and Quebec and I suspect Harper is playing a humanitarian card to have us all forget his usual indifference in such matters as well as to deviate attention from his contemptuous prorogation of Parliement.



G.

[DisturbedPervert]

the biscuits were stomped on, because a couple of idiots mistakenly thought they were expired. 

What?  They were destroying food because they thought it was expired?  Would they rather go back to eating dirt cookies?

[alfred russel]

As hard as it might be to say this disaster may be a good thing for Haiti in the long term.  IIRC one of Haiti's problems is that it's seriously overcrowded.  So those that manage to survive the earthquake's aftermath could be looking at a bit of a higher standard of living.

In a country with around 10 million people, the loss of a hundred thousand or so won't do much to relieve overcrowding. Probably the loss of so many structures is only going to increase it.