the tax-break has gone to the same industrial sector who had previously received undeserved reparations for the december attempted coup d'etat and its social aftermath, which many intellectually dishonest individuals denied to have occurred against irrefutable evidences of dead patrolmen in front of the national palace.
one more fact, the wife of labanye was given a visa by apaid which she confirmed in florida in an interview with a grassroot journalist.
apaid and boulos have suggested to the actual government that they close the ports of miragoane and saint marc as a pretext to protect local economy.
i have witnessed apaid giving an interview to an american tv station in which he claimed to have willingly raised the average wages in his chain of textile factories which in fact is the exact opposite of what really happened and what he did following the forced departure of mr aristid.
i rather have social disturbances and crisis that may eventually lead to fundamental and substantial change to the very structure of our society than maintaining stability and status quo in a vicious cycle where the next generation just replaces this one in the eternal hell of sweat-shops.
i am not anti-elitist; on the contrary, i am a privileged individual and have associated myself with very influential individuals in the realms of economics and intellectualism.
i went to school with the american intellectual elite at duke university where i have earned a degree in analytical philosophy.
i would like for us to have elites, but we do not yet have them.
haiti may be the only country in the americas in which the affluent sector is unusually uneducated considering the extent of its wealth.
education is an economic commodity, and when the more economically affluent individuals are bypassing education, it strains integrally on the objective development of our country.
when i was in the army, i have the opportunity to travel to switzerland, and curiously inquired about haitian university students, but to my dismay, a significant percentage of young haitians, male and female alike, were rather engaging in the sex trade.there is that strange phenomenon in haiti where individuals are inflating their importance as embodied by the likes of nadoune coles.
one's true functional value does not lie in whom one associates with, but rather one's contributive efforts to the advancement of one's society.
I am for capitalism in the tradition of honesty competition, Innovation and progress.
did it not bother you to see that the haitian chamber of commerce had to receive monetary grants from an NGO in order to deal with the legal aspects of contracts and transactions? in order words, even those that were supposed to be self-sufficient are quite willing to " lonje bol ble".
Posted by Observer Keen on 1/12/06 6:14 PM
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