Haiti: Exportation of Welfare

(Originally written January 20, 2010)

Welfare fails just as badly abroad has the welfare system here in the states. The same reasons New Orleans was such a tragedy is the same reasons Haiti was a tragedy. Both places had a failed infrastructure despite millions of dollars being given to them in aid year after year, with no incentive to work hard.

Welfare stifles a climate of prosperity, and in doing so hurts the infrastructure turning an event like this into much worse. It is easy to throw money at a problem and feel good about yourself, it is much harder to resist and give someone no alternative than to make it on their own and be self sustaining. We should not give Haitians fish we should teach them how to fish.

- Micheal Garry