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| Non-'*hithole' Countries Seem To Recover Quickly From Disasters, Natural Or Man-Made |
| 2018-06-17 |
| [Mercer] In 2008, Iceland collapsed under the weight of its banking industry’s federal-reserve like excesses. In 2018, Iceland’s is a red hot economy. The highly able population has shifted from finance to technology and tourism. No bailout‐allowing the banks to collapse and a natural recovery take place‐has a lot to do with it. "... rather than stepping in with taxpayers’ money like the British and Americans did, the Icelandic government let its banks go bust." Likewise did Chile cope reasonably well with what was "one of the most powerful earthquakes in history." We hear nothing of Chile’s struggles to recover. Not so Haiti, the Africa of the Western Hemisphere. Haiti is forever convulsed by political and natural disasters. It remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, where four out of five people live in poverty and more than half in abject poverty (NYT). It’s nearly two decades since a pair of earthquakes struck El Salvador in 2001. The US government granted Salvadoreans a generous grant of privilege in the late 1990s, in the form of a temporary protected status (TPS) for nearly 200,000. Ditto the "Haitians who were stranded after an earthquake in 2010." To the din of protest, "the United States’ Department of Homeland Security had only recently revoked the so-called temporary protection (it lasted nearly 2 decades). "Shithole countries" is a Trump coinage. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 "Give us your talented, your skilled, wanting to contribute to Iceland" |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-17 15:27 |
| #3 The top five immigrant countries to Iceland in 2015 in order of volume: Poland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and United States. Posted by airandee There is a message here. It's the same message residents of Iceland and their elected officials have been discreetly sending for decades. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-06-17 11:20 |
| #2 The top five immigrant countries to Iceland in 2015 in order of volume: Poland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and United States. |
| Posted by: airandee 2018-06-17 09:07 |
| #1 "... rather than stepping in with taxpayers’ money like the British and Americans did, the Icelandic government let its banks go bust." Iceland is too small for the size of a elite cabal to deceive the country that bailing out friends and fellow donors is justification to sell the population into involuntary servitude (see - debt and inflation) to suck up the losses. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-17 08:23 |