I've changed since Haiti's Earthquake...
About a month ago I went to a farming community, met with about 130 Haitian farmers and asked them what they needed. Not one of them said seeds. So, why does Monsanto feel they have to dump their seeds into the Haitian market? A couple weeks later I went back to the same farming community and this time about 170 farmers showed up. Even one of the local assistant mayors showed up. We were all talking about needs, approaches and solutions... We did not even spend 5 seconds talking about a need for seeds. Has anyone noticed that there are no Haitian farmers on HuffingtonPost...? Do Haitian farmers have internet? Do they have secondary schools? Do they have roads? Do they have medical clinics? Is there a brain drain? If someone leaves the farm for a secondary school education in the city, will they go back to the farm? Dear Bill Clinton, were Haitian farmers asked what they thought about importing cheap rice to Haiti? Hasco (Haitian American Sugar Co) closed it's doors, stopped producing sugar, and now has gas/oil tanks in the yard. Have the former sugar planters participated in this new economy? Who financed this new economy, who profited and who lost? Now that Dominican President Fernandez is being asked questions about how to spend Haiti's aid reconstruction money, can we freely ask him about the historical treatment of Haitians and Haitian farmers in the Dominican Republic? What changes is he proposing to the treatment of Haitians in the DR? Since Bill Clinton feels the Dominican President should be involved in decisions on Haitian matters, can Haitians now have an input in budgetary spending in the Dominican Republic? So many things to do here in Post Quake Haiti... Last year we had two fraudulent elections in Haiti run by President Preval, the Provisional Electoral Council and supervised by the United Nations. How can we expect anything but fraud from these people if we have Presidential elections in Haiti this year? So many billions of dollars at stake... How come last year's fraud has never been publicly addressed by any international organization?
Who's running this country? Isn't it time for a change? Isn't it time for Haiti to move forward?
The best way to help Quake ravaged Port au Prince is to invest in the people and the infrastructure in the Haitian countryside. This investment shouldn't be funneled through Haiti's Economic Elite Families who have brought Haiti to it's current economic status. This is precisely what Bill Clinton is trying to do and he should be stopped immediately! These families have proven that their economic plans only benefit a few and lead to poverty and squalor for the rest. The lobbying efforts of the families and their ties to Washington have been a detriment to the Haitian people.
Yes, it is time for a change.
Haiti for Haitians and for those who have Haiti's best interests in mind!!