Haiti -- nay, there is hardly a poorer nation in all the Americas. And, if we are to help them, we must do more than take in their immigrants. We must do more than send them a dash of foreign aide.
And, we can help them.
They suffer from lack of skilled employees. They suffer from lack of electricity. They suffer from lack of medical facilities.
Could we not provide scholarships, or help their universities supply the workforce that comes with upper education? Could we not go in and help them create an adequate electric system? Could we not open medical facilities in the places where they are lacking?
Haiti has a free-market economy, yet greater than 90 percent of its government's budget comes from Petrocaribe, which is a Venezuela-directed oil alliance. Let us not begrudge this too much, for we should want all countries to thrive -- including Venezuela. Still, we should be concerned that they are so reliant on a communist nation to pay their government bills. Tying them closer to us, in revenue sources, would be worthy. Perhaps, in becoming a supplier of electricity, we could help make that a tie to us.
When we see a nation in need, we should look for the needs, and step in and help.
(Index -- Climate change info)
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