Tears are not enough

[allhatnocattle]

"When I was in Haiti, a 19-year-old American in military fatigues showed up with boxes of latex gloves. His heart was in the right place, but he didn’t really know what he was doing and had a nervous breakdown after picking up an amputated leg when he was asked to clean a hospital’s waste-strewn yard. He went home the next day

Comments

[eracerhead]

Haiti is a complete mess. Any resources applied to rebuilding need to be spent wisely (Any yes that means paying people to figure out how to spend it). In addition since the Haitian infrastructure is gone, it is probably wise to keep the funding in a stable banking system like Canada's, and issue funding over time as needed.