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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 17:43:58 -0400 (EDT)
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D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>Kludge wrote:
>> Explain, please.  The government of the Revolution of 1946 did have
>> plenty of socialists in the coalition, but none of them survived when
>> Magloire took over.  And Magloire wasn't the problem, but he didn't
>> last long.
>
>There you go. I think you just explained it yourself. If you dig deep 
>enough in crisis countries surely you will find a socialist or two.

If you look anywhere you will find a socialist or two.  What killed 
Haiti is when Papa Doc started using it as his personal bank, and
then invited his friends to do so too.  

>Leaders screwing the people is exactly what socialism and authoritarianism 
>is about. The only antidote to that is capitalism and the abolishing of 
>the public sector.

>If not, the public sector grows like a cancer, and when it does, the 
>politicians soon become dictators and take over. Socialism turning the 
>people into slaves like it has always done.

Haiti never had much of a public sector because Papa Doc and his friends
didn't want to put money into anything that would help anybody but themselves.
They didn't even want to build roads or provide basic health care.
The government was small, because it basically consisted of people putting
bags of money into Papa's pocket.  Haiti's problem was never government
bloat, and it wasn't exactly government overreach.
--scott
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