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Published on: Mar 2, 2007

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With) Truths which disturb: The Haitian people face a very serious problem: The Haitian state is in crisis. It is in bankruptcy. (Multiple organ failure). It is not viable. It survives by “artificial” means. It is tiny room to the international begging. Major reasons and analysis of this bankruptcy. Historical and cultural reasons: Undesirable side effects and pervert of the war of independence: Destruction of the infrastructures of production and loss of invaluable human resources. Saving in obliged war, - at the beginning of our existence like nation independent vis-a-vis the manifest hostility of the colonizing powers: The unproductive military expenditure: It was necessary to build fortifications and to buy weapons at the full price. The payment of the debt of independence. Continual violence set up in system, like only and single means of solving the conflicts. In the first instrument testifies to violence: the assassination of the emperor in 1806, two years hardly after independence. The eternal “koupé tèt swell kay” (to cut the heads and to burn the houses), which should not have its justification any more after independence. Innumerable case of arson and plundering, acts of piracy. Even the old cathedral of Port-with-Prince was not saved. Our multiples and inopportune internal, fratricidal wars and devastators. Many extortion of capital perpetrated under the threat of the drain-holes of foreign powers during the XIX ème century and more close to us (1914-1915), surreptitious, clandestine and illicit disappearance of the gold reserves of the National Bank. Our frequent generally superfluous and unjustified extravagant expenditure. A recurring political instability to finish moreover it With for obliged corollary: The exodus (escape) continual of the capital, The continual exodus of the brains: departure forced for the exile and voluntary departure. The continual exodus of the arms. All these annoying events of our history, Our regrettable and counterproductive behaviors, Our strong propensity with the baronage, A savage individualism, Our leaning visceral, once with the capacity, to want to direct, without division. Mistrust with regard to the ones and others, Mistrust even hostility towards the foreigners. {étranjé mélé Pa: foreigners to abstain from}. A nationalism jingoist and bad quality, currently completely exceeded. Our daily turpitude's, did not allow us, during the 200 years of existence of our nation, to accumulate the capital essential to the development of our country, Haiti. And today the Haitian State, the private sector - the aforementioned Haitian “middle-class of businesses” - the civil company in general, all together do not have the means - capital, technology, know-how and tally legal - to exploit the natural resources (rough) country, to add value to it, in order to create productive jobs - (putting the population at work) - and to thus generate services and richness. The demographic explosion and the rural migration: A population which did not cease and does not cease growing at accelerated intervals, whereas the resources do not even increase or decrease. Depopulation of the campaigns to the profit of the cities (urban overpopulation and bidonvilisations). An endemic and chronic unemployment: The great majority of the population is found with unemployment (true or disguised). This majority, which claims and requests services from horn and á cry, does not have a sufficient formal income to be fixed with the tax. Quite to the contrary, it also, is reduced to the begging through ONG of humanitarian aid and the transfers of money coming from the Haitians living abroad (the diaspora). It should be noted that a certain fraction of this majority - the small contractors, small shopkeepers, makers of small trades - is found in “the abstract one” and does not contribute either in income tax to increase the public revenue. It results from it enormous and insurmountable disproportion between on the one hand the resources available and on the other hand the needs to satisfy through the kingly missions of the State. Our leaders are thus always managing the shortage, poverty and misery. The annual budget being always a budget of famine - Ex: 800 million dollars (of which, it should be said in passing, 500 million must come from the international community) for 10 million inhabitants for 2005-2006-. Less than $100.00 per annum per capita. The State being the provider of services par excellence, one includes/understands well why, with such a budget, all the provided services are with the even execrable reductions and extremely often non-existent. Here, it is wise to point out the kingly missions impossible to circumvent of the State:  To deliver a birth certificate, a marital status with all the citizens.  To make the detailed statement of the communal territorial properties (Land register).  To finance the obligatory schooling of the children until the 14 years age.  To finance the University and the service research and development. (R & D).  To protect the environment and the inheritance in general.  To renumber our eroded mountains (reafforestation). To protect and arrange our basins slopes.  To ensure the protection of the terrestrial and maritime borders, and the airspace.  To found a judicial, qualified and impartial power.  To ensure the safety of the lives and the goods through an auxiliary police force of justice and a police force.  To effectively collect the taxation and the taxes of all the territory.  To exempt care of primary health and to ensure the adequate operation of the public hospitals.  To fight against major endémies: Malaria, Tuberculosis, AIDS etc  To equip the country with the basic infrastructures essential to any economic development: Roads, Electricity, Telecommunications, current Water conveyance, Port, Airport.  To apply a policy of conservation of water. Giant cistern, water towers, lake collinaires, storage dam on all the rivers and river.  To regularly clean the rivers and irrigation the canals of the arable lands.  To build new cities and new villages in places or suitable sites in the various departments in order to counter the inopportune bidonvilisation of our existing cities, and also to gather the rural populations and to facilitate their provisioning of basic essential services: electricity, running water, telephone, schools, hospitals, markets public, churches, center of leisures, stages of plays etc  To apply an effective and effective policy of family planning.  To set up all the institutions envisaged by the Constitution.  To build decent prisons in all the departments and of the prisons with maximum safety for the dangerous gangsters.  To set up an effective system of collection, domestic waste collecting and processing.  etc etc etc the list being far from being exhaustive. Who already thought of financially quantifying the exact cost of all these missions entrusted to the State to realize and to include/understand, that with such an annual budget of 800 million dollars, one is very, very far from the account: Even if this budget is well spent except for the centime, the good results are not with go. The Haitian State does not have financial means to fulfill the various kingly missions which are entrusted to him by the constitution and the laws of the republic. It is in bankruptcy. “Haiti has failed state”. It is décapitalisé. For his greater misfortune, the Haitian people entrust the solution of all his collective problems in a “decapitalized” State, a State in bankruptcy. Unfortunately also, all our leaders, and this since decades, instead of colleter with the difficulties in finding the solution with the bankruptcy of the State, always chose the easy way, without effort, of the international co-operation; a co-operation which is connected with the begging: Humanitarian aid, budgetary support with more than 50%, of the unimportant loans and the ridiculous gifts vis-a-vis our enormous needs and very recently, Tally of temporary co-operation (CCI). A co-operation which, obviously, does nothing but maintain Haiti in a permanent state of assisted country and degrading dependence. Haiti does not die but never manages to leave the hospital and to fly of its own wings. It is dedicated to a long anguish, cruel and inhuman. Worse still, under such a mode of bilateral and multilateral assistance, Haiti finds itself at the thank you of too many completely irresponsible “partners” and not having any obligation of results: “Kabrit ki gen tròp mèt mouri nan kòd”. One wonders, with reason, how and why people, formerly so proud, can it agree without reserve to even take pleasure to live assistantship (kwi nan men) and to prevail itself at the same time of any sovereignty. Utopias!!! Dreams!!! One also wonders, why our policies and our leaders, with some exceptions, always neglected the economic dimension of the development of the country to concentrate only on its social and political dimension, where, obviously, it is very easy to make demagogy. Ah! The chestnuts which we are!!! Why this eagerness maintain in life companies in bankruptcy like the ED' H and Teleco. When the State is in bankruptcy, the Nation is in danger. Its chances of survival are very mean. Caveat!!! Indeed, When the state is in bankruptcy, the nation is on the way to be phagocytée by another “close” state thus to disappear or to see themselves putting under supervision of UNO. Catastrophe!!! Unless being directed by a wild and sanguinary dictator. A State in bankruptcy slows down the development of the Nation and makes impossible the restoration of the authority of the State. The great question which one must thus put today: Which solution for a State in bankruptcy? Or what does one make with a State in bankruptcy? And Which has interest so that this bankruptcy persists and perdure? The debate is open: Because the future of our country depends on the answer which one will have given to this fundamental question.

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by JOSEPH Marckenson
Published on: Mar 2, 2007
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Type: Opinions
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=11421


With) Truths which disturb: The Haitian people face a very serious problem: The Haitian state is in crisis. It is in bankruptcy. (Multiple organ failure). It is not viable. It survives by “artificial” means. It is tiny room to the international begging. Major reasons and analysis of this bankruptcy. Historical and cultural reasons: Undesirable side effects and pervert of the war of independence: Destruction of the infrastructures of production and loss of invaluable human resources. Saving in obliged war, - at the beginning of our existence like nation independent vis-a-vis the manifest hostility of the colonizing powers: The unproductive military expenditure: It was necessary to build fortifications and to buy weapons at the full price. The payment of the debt of independence. Continual violence set up in system, like only and single means of solving the conflicts. In the first instrument testifies to violence: the assassination of the emperor in 1806, two years hardly after independence. The eternal “koupé tèt swell kay” (to cut the heads and to burn the houses), which should not have its justification any more after independence. Innumerable case of arson and plundering, acts of piracy. Even the old cathedral of Port-with-Prince was not saved. Our multiples and inopportune internal, fratricidal wars and devastators. Many extortion of capital perpetrated under the threat of the drain-holes of foreign powers during the XIX ème century and more close to us (1914-1915), surreptitious, clandestine and illicit disappearance of the gold reserves of the National Bank. Our frequent generally superfluous and unjustified extravagant expenditure. A recurring political instability to finish moreover it With for obliged corollary: The exodus (escape) continual of the capital, The continual exodus of the brains: departure forced for the exile and voluntary departure. The continual exodus of the arms. All these annoying events of our history, Our regrettable and counterproductive behaviors, Our strong propensity with the baronage, A savage individualism, Our leaning visceral, once with the capacity, to want to direct, without division. Mistrust with regard to the ones and others, Mistrust even hostility towards the foreigners. {étranjé mélé Pa: foreigners to abstain from}. A nationalism jingoist and bad quality, currently completely exceeded. Our daily turpitude's, did not allow us, during the 200 years of existence of our nation, to accumulate the capital essential to the development of our country, Haiti. And today the Haitian State, the private sector - the aforementioned Haitian “middle-class of businesses” - the civil company in general, all together do not have the means - capital, technology, know-how and tally legal - to exploit the natural resources (rough) country, to add value to it, in order to create productive jobs - (putting the population at work) - and to thus generate services and richness. The demographic explosion and the rural migration: A population which did not cease and does not cease growing at accelerated intervals, whereas the resources do not even increase or decrease. Depopulation of the campaigns to the profit of the cities (urban overpopulation and bidonvilisations). An endemic and chronic unemployment: The great majority of the population is found with unemployment (true or disguised). This majority, which claims and requests services from horn and á cry, does not have a sufficient formal income to be fixed with the tax. Quite to the contrary, it also, is reduced to the begging through ONG of humanitarian aid and the transfers of money coming from the Haitians living abroad (the diaspora). It should be noted that a certain fraction of this majority - the small contractors, small shopkeepers, makers of small trades - is found in “the abstract one” and does not contribute either in income tax to increase the public revenue. It results from it enormous and insurmountable disproportion between on the one hand the resources available and on the other hand the needs to satisfy through the kingly missions of the State. Our leaders are thus always managing the shortage, poverty and misery. The annual budget being always a budget of famine - Ex: 800 million dollars (of which, it should be said in passing, 500 million must come from the international community) for 10 million inhabitants for 2005-2006-. Less than $100.00 per annum per capita. The State being the provider of services par excellence, one includes/understands well why, with such a budget, all the provided services are with the even execrable reductions and extremely often non-existent. Here, it is wise to point out the kingly missions impossible to circumvent of the State:  To deliver a birth certificate, a marital status with all the citizens.  To make the detailed statement of the communal territorial properties (Land register).  To finance the obligatory schooling of the children until the 14 years age.  To finance the University and the service research and development. (R & D).  To protect the environment and the inheritance in general.  To renumber our eroded mountains (reafforestation). To protect and arrange our basins slopes.  To ensure the protection of the terrestrial and maritime borders, and the airspace.  To found a judicial, qualified and impartial power.  To ensure the safety of the lives and the goods through an auxiliary police force of justice and a police force.  To effectively collect the taxation and the taxes of all the territory.  To exempt care of primary health and to ensure the adequate operation of the public hospitals.  To fight against major endémies: Malaria, Tuberculosis, AIDS etc  To equip the country with the basic infrastructures essential to any economic development: Roads, Electricity, Telecommunications, current Water conveyance, Port, Airport.  To apply a policy of conservation of water. Giant cistern, water towers, lake collinaires, storage dam on all the rivers and river.  To regularly clean the rivers and irrigation the canals of the arable lands.  To build new cities and new villages in places or suitable sites in the various departments in order to counter the inopportune bidonvilisation of our existing cities, and also to gather the rural populations and to facilitate their provisioning of basic essential services: electricity, running water, telephone, schools, hospitals, markets public, churches, center of leisures, stages of plays etc  To apply an effective and effective policy of family planning.  To set up all the institutions envisaged by the Constitution.  To build decent prisons in all the departments and of the prisons with maximum safety for the dangerous gangsters.  To set up an effective system of collection, domestic waste collecting and processing.  etc etc etc the list being far from being exhaustive. Who already thought of financially quantifying the exact cost of all these missions entrusted to the State to realize and to include/understand, that with such an annual budget of 800 million dollars, one is very, very far from the account: Even if this budget is well spent except for the centime, the good results are not with go. The Haitian State does not have financial means to fulfill the various kingly missions which are entrusted to him by the constitution and the laws of the republic. It is in bankruptcy. “Haiti has failed state”. It is décapitalisé. For his greater misfortune, the Haitian people entrust the solution of all his collective problems in a “decapitalized” State, a State in bankruptcy. Unfortunately also, all our leaders, and this since decades, instead of colleter with the difficulties in finding the solution with the bankruptcy of the State, always chose the easy way, without effort, of the international co-operation; a co-operation which is connected with the begging: Humanitarian aid, budgetary support with more than 50%, of the unimportant loans and the ridiculous gifts vis-a-vis our enormous needs and very recently, Tally of temporary co-operation (CCI). A co-operation which, obviously, does nothing but maintain Haiti in a permanent state of assisted country and degrading dependence. Haiti does not die but never manages to leave the hospital and to fly of its own wings. It is dedicated to a long anguish, cruel and inhuman. Worse still, under such a mode of bilateral and multilateral assistance, Haiti finds itself at the thank you of too many completely irresponsible “partners” and not having any obligation of results: “Kabrit ki gen tròp mèt mouri nan kòd”. One wonders, with reason, how and why people, formerly so proud, can it agree without reserve to even take pleasure to live assistantship (kwi nan men) and to prevail itself at the same time of any sovereignty. Utopias!!! Dreams!!! One also wonders, why our policies and our leaders, with some exceptions, always neglected the economic dimension of the development of the country to concentrate only on its social and political dimension, where, obviously, it is very easy to make demagogy. Ah! The chestnuts which we are!!! Why this eagerness maintain in life companies in bankruptcy like the ED' H and Teleco. When the State is in bankruptcy, the Nation is in danger. Its chances of survival are very mean. Caveat!!! Indeed, When the state is in bankruptcy, the nation is on the way to be phagocytée by another “close” state thus to disappear or to see themselves putting under supervision of UNO. Catastrophe!!! Unless being directed by a wild and sanguinary dictator. A State in bankruptcy slows down the development of the Nation and makes impossible the restoration of the authority of the State. The great question which one must thus put today: Which solution for a State in bankruptcy? Or what does one make with a State in bankruptcy? And Which has interest so that this bankruptcy persists and perdure? The debate is open: Because the future of our country depends on the answer which one will have given to this fundamental question. « return.