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[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: "Walton, Robert" <robert.walton3@us.army.mil>

I agree that food is much higher on the hierarchy of human needs than repair
of Haiti's urban civil infrastructure.  People need to be fed before needs
of self-esteem can be addressed.

One wonders why unemployed, starving city dwellers do not emigrate to the
country where they can be fed. -- but that's another topic.

"Dirt-poor rural-origin people aren't in a position to do urban waste
management, and city governments just don't do it. --nancy"

People working in concert for the public good are excellent substitutes for
ineffective government.

Bob