Hillary and Bill earned every penny they have.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

110. A fair point...

So you'll stop hurling personal insults at Democrats and make it all about the policies? Glad to oblige.

With regard to Haiti, it's a pretty complicated situation there. At $400 annual income per capita, it's just about the poorest place on the planet. It's got endemic crime, poverty and political corruption. On the World Bank's list of business climate in 185 countries, Haiti ranks 174th. The unemployment rate is somewhere between 50% and 70% -- nobody knows for sure because Haiti's government isn't capable of keeping the statistics. You take just about anything that sucks in this life and you'll find that Haiti has more of it than just about anybody else. Hell, the UN had 10,000 peacekeepers stationed in Haiti, and that was before the earthquake.

The problems of Haiti aren't going to be solved by the United States alone or by garment industry. My guess is that it's going to require joint action by (possibly) the Organization of American States to help stabilize the country and to not rely on piecemeal private investment. Don't get me wrong, if you're unemployed in a country where the average income is $2/day, then getting a $0.75 per hour job in a sweatshop is going to seem like friggin' Nirvana. But I'm pretty sure that Haitians can do better than that. We could start with the sanitary infrastructure on Haiti -- something like only 10% of Haitians have access to clean water -- and that's led to periodic outbreaks of cholera. So we could improve the health and the economy of Haiti by getting western nations to pony up the funding -- about $2 billion -- but the problem remains with regard to who's going to manage the project? The Haitian government? They haven't proven to be terribly reliable in that department.