"A crisis is a terrible thing to waste," Georges Sassine, president of Haiti’s manufacturers association, told the Washington Post.
"This is what the earthquake is today—an opportunity, a huge opportunity," added Reginald Boulos, described by the Post Monday as the owner of a "small empire" of supermarkets, a hotel and a car dealership. "I think we need to give the message that we are open for business. This is really a land of opportunities."
Meanwhile, "US firms have begun jockeying for a bonanza of cleanup work," the Miami Herald reported last week, adding that "At least two politically connected US firms have enlisted powerful local allies in Haiti to help compete for the high-stakes business".'
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You have an extremely biased view of the situation. What do you think they mean by opportunity? I hate when people do this. People condemn the rich as if they are continuously doing something bad. How is employing people something bad? Do Haitian just want the rich people to leave? I mean, I don't understand what people are saying. Should people not want to make money? If every one of those haitians who are criticizing had money in their pockets, I am willing to bet they'd turn their backs on this country and leave, and go to florida.
ReplyDeleteThe "opportunity" is because Haiti has been sitting on its ass the past oh...I dunno 200 years. Haiti has not moved forward, but moved backward. The opportunity only implies that : "hey, we had a problem. This earthquake showed us this problem. Now let's fix it."
Instead of always looking to criticize, how about Haitians find a way to construct together...maybe that will help you get out of this mess.