Another indecent proposal

In the wake of the Haiti disaster, we are hearing the usual demands for increasing aid to that unhappy country. Yet reputedly, even before the earthquake some 10,000 aid organizations had been active in Haiti. But it isn't working. Apparently, they have been handiing out fish, but not teaching people to fish.

It is time now to think outside the box. We should arrange to turn the country over to China. The Chinese will establish clean, well-lit factories. Wages will be very low, but some wage is better than none.

And there will, for a while at least, be none of that nonsense about freedom of speech and human rights. Trouble makers will be dealt with.

Moreover, once the system gets rolling there would be no problem of arrogant white people telling black people what to do.

We tried it our way. Let's try another way.