IMF requests a Marshall Plan for Haiti

[nadinbrzezinski]

now this is where disaster capitalism as well as the direction of this goes.

If they finally get it, and they actually implement something like the Marshall Plan it will be Keynseian in nature... but these guys are neo libersls...

They are meeting in Montreal and they want the aid to be like oh systematic. This is the only reason I hold any hope that perhaps the emphasis will change.

Here is my source

http://www.prensaescrita.com/adiario.php?codigo=&pagina=http://www.cronica.com.mx

[Raineyb]

1. Didn't the IMF offer to lend Haiti money if the froze the wages of its public workers?

Or was that another vulture?

[Posteritatis]

6. Among other restrictions, yes. (nt)

[Auggie]

2. Here's a link in English:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8Kz6gP4s7D7PGEMi5HVD10x6aGA

WASHINGTON — IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Wednesday called for a multilateral aid plan for earthquake-ravaged Haiti like the US "Marshall Plan" that rebuilt Europe after World War II.

"My belief is that Haiti -- which has been incredibly hit by different things: the food and fuel prices crisis, then the hurricane, then the earthquake -- needs something that is big," the managing director of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund said.

"Not only a piecemeal approach, but something which is much bigger to deal with the reconstruction of the country -- some kind of a Marshall Plan that we need now to implement for Haiti," he said, referring to the US initiative launched in 1947 to rebuild war-ravaged western Europe.

The international community is gearing up for a coordinated drive to help rebuild the poorest country in the western hemisphere, even as the primary focus remains on rescue and relief efforts after the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12.

[clear eye]

3. The IMF already loaned Haiti $100M at the regular rates in addition to what it already owes.

From The Nation "Debt relief activists tell me that these loans came with conditions, including raising prices for electricity, refusing pay increases to all public employees except those making minimum wage and keeping inflation low."

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/517494/what_haiti_is_owed

[dgibby]

4. I LOATHE the smell of Disaster Capitalism in the morning,

and that's what I smell every time anyone mentions the IMF or the World Bank.:grr:

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Realize both are the product of Bretton Woods and

were used for the Marshall Plan in a very different way... why I am holding a little hope that somebody cracked a HISTORY book

[jwirr]

7. 3 Million homeless. We had better be thinking of sustainable living

and survival. In Tanzania a Habitat for Humanity home costs $3000 but is only a one room building with a good roof and ventilation. We need to look at the scale of help that will be lasting and affordable to most. Jobs? No idea how to provide those without selling out to the corporations. One thing I do know is that there needs to be debt forgiveness for this nation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. That is why I hope somebody looked

at a book.