Cesar; it is not my role to solve the Haitian problem. I am...

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Cesar; it is not my role to solve the Haitian problem.

I am just a mere citizen, and in most countries that usually means that my concern should really be limited to my immediate family.

Your problem is that you are one of those people who lets their emotions drive them. Rather than looking at issues using evidence, like numbers and specific empirical data, that can help you to make reasonable observations, you follow your highly sensitive emotions.

The fact is, that in most (maybe all) countries of the world, it is not the role of an average citizen to solve national problems.

This does not happen in most modern countries because it is not realistically possible.

In most modern countries people are busy going about their daily lives.

But you know what, even in tribal societies, it was the chiefs and the elders who took care of making decisions that affected the whole tribe.

In today's world it is the government that makes the decisions that impact the whole society; that is why members of the government get paid the big bucks and have all the power.

We expect them to know what they are doing.

In most societies around the globe the government is composed of, you know, people like--wait wait I'm thinking--gee, oh yeah, a President, a Prime Ministers, and other ministers, etc. Now of course since we are talking about Haiti, maybe we should not think that we deserve what is average and normal for all other countries.

Maybe we should do as you said and ask our citizens to run the country.

Now, let me think about how that could work...thinking...got it! We could give every citizen the same salary the president gets and the same power.

Hey, I'm up for that!!! Let me at it! let me at that white house!!! Do you see how illogical what you suggest really is?

And, yes!yes!yes the right person as president can change the country.

A long time ago I gave the bloggers two examples, of two presidents, who had the exact amount of time to rule, but who had very different results.

One increase their countries popularity and clout around the world, tremendously increased the size of the national coffers, kept the peace, and raised every citizens standard of living; the other screwed up so badly that when his time was up, his country was despised around the world and the nation's international clout had all but disappeared, the country was in so much debt that it will take generations to repair the coffers--if even possible, and the nation had lost more than 4000 citizens to a war that did not need to be fought.

Yes indeed one president can completely change a country: see Bush and Clinton.

It is all about the leadership.

I am sorry that I upset you, but unlike you, I don't just make emotional statements.

I back everything I say with facts and empirical examples and evidence.

If more Haitians learned to do that, perhaps your decisions and judgments would not be so flawed.

Linda, August 21 2008, 6:11 PM

Topic: un probeme de leadership en haiti

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