Rft, said to Tiba regarding how dirty Haiti is: "what you need...

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Rft, said to Tiba regarding how dirty Haiti is: "what you need to do is stop begging a president and start digging into your own history then you will...you will gain a better holistic understanding of how Haiti has gotten the way she has gotten."

Statements like these have always been at the root of my disagreements with Rft. If Tiba were to look into Haitian history, he would not see anything to do with the filth that is covering Haiti today.

The opposite is true. He would see a country where even the poorest people kept themselves clean and all the streets were kept clean because the governments in the past mandated that their citizens and their streets be clean.

As I stated a long time ago, there was a time that Haiti even mandated that hygiene be thought in school.

There was a time that the government collected and burnt trash in Haiti regularly.

There was a time that state employees swept the streets regularly, not just when Clinton is coming.

None of that is done today.

Today, Haitians cannot--and should not--burn their trash, because the majority of what's on the streets are plastic and cellophane and will cause cancer if burnt within the small island space.

Today the only time the government cleans the street is when a dignitary from another country is coming; than all the streets are cleaned up. This means that the government has the capacity to do what is necessary, but just doesn't.

I find it funny whenever Rft decides to blame the victim for the crime committed by the Preval cronies, but I will try to follow his logic and see where it leads us.

Now let's see his first point:
RFT. Individual private citizen are responsible for getting rid of the trash on Haiti's streets.

Answer: Well let's say that the people did sweep in front of their houses and pick up their trash.

Now what is the next step. Well, I guess they could stock pile all that trash behind their house and thow huge parties with their neighbors so that they could compare whose stack is taller.

Or, maybe each household could burn all that private trash that is fill with plastic and all sorts of other Western made cancer causing material.

Than instead of parties they could throw many wakes to discuss how so and so suffered with their various cancers before they died. I guess that would be a quick way to reduce the Haitian population.

There are of course other options.

Private citizens could start their own trash wars, and start hurling the trash they collected into other neighborhoods that are a distance from them.

I don't know Rft; maybe you have a logical solution for dispensing of the trash collected by individual citizens.

If so please feel free to clearly detail it here on the site. If not, please stop blaming the victim and stop protecting this incompetent dishonorable, unethical government, who has not done anything that governments are required to do.

Oh! In case you didn't notice, so far, in every civilized country it is the government that collects and destroys public trash.

I am tired now, but will respond to another one of your comments tomorrow.

Worst for you, you are probably looking at Haiti only from a Port-au-Prince point of view.

We are working on a plan so that the next time you head home you do not have to go to Port-au-Prince.

So long

Linda, March 9 2009, 10:35 PM

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