Haiti

i once met wyclef jean really late at night at a gas station off the palisades parkway.
i saw a ferrari outside with a WYCLEF license plate and figured it had to be him.
i went inside and he was in there paying.

Since family members of his are already in politics, I assume he knows what's going on.

And yes, certain politics shouldn't be connected to businesses, but that is how your country got to be how it is today. Also, if he can get some companies to start investing in Haiti he can maybe make sure there are jobs for everyone and get their economy to grow. He is one of the most famous Haitians in the world, so people will certainly listen to what he has to say.

Fuck Wyclef. He can seem to even get his own finances on order. How.could he do that for a devastated country? He also walks his way around the answer to every question.

Knate wrote:

Fuck Wyclef. He can seem to even get his own finances on order. How.could he do that for a devastated country? He also walks his way around the answer to every question.

Sounds like a true politician to me!

Tim wrote:

Since family members of his are already in politics, I assume he knows what's going on.

And yes, certain politics shouldn't be connected to businesses, but that is how your country got to be how it is today. Also, if he can get some companies to start investing in Haiti he can maybe make sure there are jobs for everyone and get their economy to grow. He is one of the most famous Haitians in the world, so people will certainly listen to what he has to say.

Yeah, and we deal with some not so positive consequences of that. A lot of the time the interests of big multinational businesses take precedence over the interests of people here. That's not to say that business interests in an economy don't have a positive effect. You're right about getting companies to invest in Haiti, for sure. But that kind of thing can only improve quality of life up to a point before you have to have an effective government to make it work.

Knate wrote:

Fuck Wyclef. He can seem to even get his own finances on order. How.could he do that for a devastated country? He also walks his way around the answer to every question.

I don't know if they're true or not but I've definitely heard accusations of 'improprieties' in the management of yele haiti...that charity he was the head of. He's addressed the accusations kind of but everything I've read he's said he was very upset by the accusations but not directly denied or affirmed them.


Anyway I don't know much about the people running against him, so I can't say that he's better or worse than anyone else in the running.