Port au Prince and surrounding area needs to be evacuated, cleaned up and rebuilt to much higher std

[ddeclue]

Trying to help these refugees in-place in Haiti seems to be a hopeless task. It seems to me that it would be much better and easier to evacuate them to places that actually have infrastructure: Miami, Havana, the Dominican Republic, Caracas and New York City area - having to deal with them in a place with no infrastructure just seems hopeless - when they bring a planeload of supplies in, they should be flying a planeload of survivors out.

The best thing that could be done would be to start evacuating refugees from Port au Prince to Guantanamo, Havana, Caracas, the Dominican Republic, Miami and New York and evacuate the city as was basically done with New Orleans until the engineers and disaster recovery folks can un-rubble the place, bury the bodies and restore (or in many cases ESTABLISH) basic services (water, electricity, telephone, sewer, hospitals, police, and fire) so that people can safely return.

Longer term the country needs electrification with free electricity, water and sewer services for its citizens, paved roads brought up to U.S. standards and most of the structures in Port au Prince need to be razed for safety reasons and re-built to a much higher structural code that meets the earthquake standards in California and the hurricane standards in Florida.

Electrification is the first step in stopping the terrible deforestation that has been going on for decades in Haiti for cooking fuel. The next step would be to replant some fast growing trees like hybridized lob lolly pines (which could then be grown commercially and harvested for paper pulp) or some other type of tree that would grow quickly and put down roots to stop all the devastating mud slides they get there in heavy rains and tropical storms/hurricanes.

[Gold Metal Flake]

1. Haiti needs to be liberated from neo-liberal colonialism.

They need a shot of new Deal and then a whole lotta protectionist tarrifs and a re-establishment of their rice and sugar cultivation. They need a shitload of keeping the CIA out.

[lib2DaBone]

2. We should re-build Haiti...

Just take a few billion from nation-building in Afghanistan... and use it closer to home.

I wonder how much it costs to shoot one copy of a Drone Missile?

[ddeclue]

3. If you mean a hellfire missile, you can figure around $1M US.

[Gold Metal Flake]

7. We? Which we? Because if you mean the USA then you mean the IMF.

No, the US Government should get the hell out. Haiti is a US protectorate. Nothing major happens there without the US Government and it's military and intelligence agencies being in the know and allowing it.

This disaster will be used to further enslave this nation. The corporations are already on the ground finding profit.

[Thothmes]

11. Why. Are we the only country on this entire planet that

can do it. How about those Europeans with their marvelous social safety nets. Let them help rebuild Haiti. How about Cuba. they have such wonderful social services, surely they can afford a few billion to help desolate Haiti. How about Venezuela, President Chavez is not supporting wars all over the world, maybe he can help.

[ddeclue]

14. Apparently you didn't read. I said Havana anc Caracas if you bothered to read.

[Thothmes]

15. California earthquak standards, Florida Hurricane Standards

We are the only ones that impose this strict standards of construction. Sounds like an American Show to me.

[ddeclue]

16. Actually not true - it is practiced in Japan and Austrailia also.

and it is obviously necessary in Haiti's case.

[Thothmes]

17. Then why are the Japanes and the Australians

included in those that can save Haiti from itself. Why is it only us.

[malaise]

4. Havana?

Hahahahahaha.
The urban rural migration has been devastating to the entire Haiti.
Thank the Washington Consensus for their great IMF policies.

[WeDidIt]

5. The cost would be in the trillions

Won't happen.

[ddeclue]

12. No it wouldn't Haiti is the size of Maryland.

It would be around $100B over five years.

[WeDidIt]

20. To move everybody out of Haiti, rebuild, and move everybody back?

You are completely unrealistic in an estimate of $100 billion.

[Barack_America]

6. Do the people of Haiti get a voice in your plans for them?

:eyes:

[vadawg]

19. probuably not, might just be easier to give them all a house in the US

probuably cheaper, may as well force them to come here as force them to accept whatever they are told...

[dysfunctional press]

8. we'll put it on our 'to-do list'...

right after new orleans and 'ground zero'...

good luck.

[stray cat]

9. However, it is an independent country so we can't go in and take charge

thats an occupation even if it is for the good of the citizens

[ddeclue]

13. we already have and I don't think you'd hear a lot of complaints.

[SoCalDem]

10. Too many people.. too "unwelcome" of an atmosphere

they are captive, and will have to do what they have always done.. just barely survive:(

[XemaSab]

18. What materials do you think we should use for rebuilding?

:shrug: