Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
An optimistic view on a "fix" for Haiti, if the diaspora instead of sending remittances return home to help:http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article...can_save_haiti


I say optimistic from a faraway "armchair" and having visited two other Caribbean islands, each with more living abroad than at home.
One can't help but wonder what would keep them there, making a few hundred dollars a year, and living like dogs, when they could just pack up again. Perhaps if that hadn't, as the article pointed out, already been tried and then failed, hope could sustain them for a while. Now though? They should give up their families' welfare here and in Canada so that someday strangers who speak the same language can live about a quarter as well as Domincans do?

Just don't see it happening, really.