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29904: Emmanuelle Re : 29896: Pierre (Reply) )Re: 29883: Kathleen (term misuse)Re: 29876: Pierre (question) (fwd)
From: Emmanuelle Gilles <manugi28@yahoo.fr>
By the way, Mr. Kawonabo, you mention that the masses hold the key to the
permanent solution of all Haiti’s century – May I correct you to say that the
choices that the political decision makers make to bring the masses from their
level of poverty and ignorance is key to the development of the country. I
don’t see where the so-called masses can hold the key to a “permanent solution
of all Haiti’s century-old and present problems when they are not given
opportunities to be educated, to be included. There are no permanent solutions
– we can talk about sustainability of results from a model that works.
Referring to the masses, those are the people who destroyed a 200-year old
cathedral without knowing its value. Those are the people who burn houses
rather than demanding to live in them. Those are the people who are killing
because they have been programmed to kill by their president when they were not
given food and decent shelter. Are you nut? Perhaps, you
might say that 1 million people like Aristide who himself arose from the
masses did hold the key to a permanent solution of Haiti’s problems – then the
country would have been in deeper trouble than it has even been. Rather than
blaming the bourgeois and the imperialists for Haiti’s misfortune, you should
reflex about your own mentality which leaves you behind. While I do believe
that other countries’ foreign policy can affect the internal stability of a
country – we cannot entirely put the blame of your own people’s mismanagement
on the account of foreign influence and the bourgeois. If each of our Past
presidents and Government officials had put national interests before their
own, we would have been able to reach out for the masses a long time ago
thereby providing them with the necessary choices for their own development.
Our middle class has shrunk because a President from the mass did not
understand the need to expand it. In fact, the proletariat you
were referring to has been expanded more than ever because you had a
semi-literate mass in power who distribute soup to some of them on New Year's
eve and the mass think that they are included truly as a result of this yearly
gesture. This is where the problem lies. Aristide was no bourgeois but he
ran the country like his personal business. You can avoid foreign interference
if you can use your brain to become self-sufficient like Luxembourg did with no
resources. For many decades, the Bourgeois did not run the country, if they
were able to exercise so much influence on the government, then there was
definitely a governance and authority issue with those in power. The
Haitians can develop or perhaps impose a tax system to better integrate the
masses. They can spend less money on themselves and educate all the children
as they are tomorrow’s future. The country can only succeed when it invests on
its children so that they become better, well educated,
responsible citizens – and not criminals.