Figures the WaPo would go find the rich people and check on how they were doing.  Seems to be the only people the WaPo ever cares about.

Don’t worry rich guy in the story.  The Us is sending in the Marines to make certain that your little store is protected and to make sure that the poor people continue to starve.

Its what we do.

The owner of the Big Star Market for security sake
said, “Send in the marines.”  Seems to be the purpose
of the military in every nation.  To protect the
businesses of the wealthy.  Forget the marines. Let
the poor people have access to them if they can get
through the razor wire. Someday the poor people
serving in the marines will wake up and realize who
they are really protecting.

Man what is with this Waspington Post crap? Couldn’t we
get something from a real newspaper? I notice from the
comments that WP articles are almost uniformly
recognized by the comments a being of lowest quality,
highest spin, and least objectivity possible. Quality
control? Hello? Can we get some news here?

It’s also true that some of Haiti’s lower class were spared the worst.

What a pointless article. And what a parody of a headline. A classic variation on, “Asteroid Heads for Earth- Women, Children and the Poor Expected to Bear Brunt”

Everybody automatically assumes the poor got disproportionally screwed by the earthquake. I’m sure the ratio of rich to poor is far lower in the countryside than PaP, so the poor as a proportion of the national population probably lost less. This is certainly true materially.

And if the rich in fact own everything- the buildings, the infrastructure, etc- I think it is the rich who by far got the worst of it. You folks should be dancing in the streets with joy at the devastation the rich have to endure down there.

Is there any point whatsoever to this article or Truthdig’s reference to it?  So Port-
au-Prince is a destitute town and the surrounding mountains are better off.  Is
this news?  Opinion?  A call to action?  Should they prevent ex-presidents from
living out of town?  Should the townspeople run for the hills?  Is there a conspiracy
here that needs uncovering?  Or does TD just need to fill some screen realestate
of their own?  I think I’m on to something here.

That’s it? Logically, of course, some means more than one, but you could have at least gone a bit further. It’ miles and miles up winding roads to Petionville from Port-au-Prince, and miles and miles beyond that to Fermate and on to Kenskoff, so one has to wonder how many more between the one or two of some and the thousands that would be all survived OK. These are the people who own the country and hold at least 90% of the money and for whom the US has invaded several times, kicked out Aristide, and done so much destruction.