The Ugly Truth About Haiti

OK, we all know that Haiti was hit by a massive earthquake.  We humanly express sorrow and compassion for those that have suffered the loss of family and property.  The devastation is immense and countries (mostly the U.S.) are scrambling to provide assistance.  A lot of that is due to honest charity and the remainder has to do with looking good on the world stage.  You might be thinking that that is a tough statement, but read on.

In Biology 101 you learn that living systems of organisms will grow until they outlast their ability to draw resources from the environnment.  At that point there is usually a "die off" and the population contracts until it reaches a level where the resources can sustain it.  The problem with Haiti is that the population long outgrew the capacity of the nation to support it.

Since 1993 or even earlier, Haiti has been dependent upon the rest of the world to sustain itself.  It has depleted all of its resources and the case can be made that the country exists only because of the generosity or guilt of richer nations' largesse.  Make no mistake,  Haiti is not the only dysfunctional state on the face of this planet, there are scores more.  The problem is; when you infuse artificial "means" (in today's world this is billions of dollars annually) into a nation/state like Haiti, you create a sense in the population that the country is self sustaining.  What follows from that complacency is birthrate.  An impoverished nation should not grow in population, but they do, because of the misguided charity of countries and world bodies like the United Nations.  Fifty percent of the displaced persons in the capital of Port Au Prince due to the earthquake  are children; ninety percent of the land area is completely deforested.  People have no business being there, the country is destitute and without any viable industry, but the population grows.

This has a profound correlation to what is being preached to us by the liberals today.  There is a public relations campaign going on to convince us in the U.S. that we should be guilty for our consumption.   Listen to the next Allstate commercial.   They make me gag, when they preach less is more.  Harry Reid must have slipped them a few hundred million of our money, but I digress.Although we in the U.S. can sustain ourselves and our population, somehow we are using the resources of the world that rightfully belong to other peoples and countries.  Haiti is a prime example of why such "wisdom" is nonsense.  Nature tells us that populations should decline when when resources are depleted in an area, but man has short-circuited that self control mechanism.

If we are to come to the conclusion that we MUST give to dysfunctional states like Haiti, we better darn well link our charity to population controls in the beneficiary country.  If the U.N. is to fulfill any kind of benevolent function on this planet, they better focus on population.  The Global Warming scare is just another chapter in the "one world together" push.  We would be much better served if people would just come out and say it, there are too many people, and too few governments with the strength to admit it, or the will to do anything about it.  Sadly, I have to single out China for its wisdom in connecting surplus population with poor standard of living.  China was only able to adopt a strict birth control regimen because it is a totalitarian state.  There is no way that mandatory birth control would fly in a democratic country, yet that is only dodging the realities and it WILL catch up to us.

Governments should strive to produce abundance for all of its citizens to the extent it has the capacity to do so.  Unfortunately many countries that gain independence for political reasons have no hope of being self-sustaining.  Haiti is a prime example.  They simply do not have the resources or political infrastructure keep themselves afloat economically and they become beggar nations.   At some point, like it or not, the real focus of producing nations will have to shift to controlling population.  Not just of their own countries, but those that benefit from foreign aid or disaster relief.  Limitless charity for failed nations will only hasten the depletion of all this planet has to offer.  Hard talk, but sometimes Truth is a bitch.