Carnival Cruise @ Haiti
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- SumWurk0
boobs
Haiti is actually totally awesome (well, not so much right now).
- boobs0
I just know that if I was on a cruise, I wouldn't want to go to Haiti. Earthquake or not.
- pr20
Lets look at this from another perspective. The cruse line wants to profit as much as possible so they hire substandard cheap workers that don't care or don't even have a know-how how to benefit the company by:
a.) organize fundraiser on the cruise so people can support the efforts where say 100% of the money goes to Red Cross
b.) create an op-out list a passenger can skip one meal and that meal's worth of food will be donated to the community in need (which can add up as there a hundreds if not thousands of passengers on the ship).
c.) have a press release where they talk about how business-as-usual actually brings in some good - thus get fantastic free publicity.So everyone would be a winner: the Haitians get some extra $ and food from the passengers and the company gets free publicity and world at large sees that maybe there is some good in this universe.
But NO. The company hires the cheapest (thus the least creative) work force they can find that feels so underpaid and so abused by the company that they really don't care... And everyone, especially the company getting bad publicity looses.
- instrmntl0
- that tweet is just incoherentsequoia
- not true.version3
- Read more of his tweets for better context. He's a journalist for Deomacracy Now. http://twitter.com/s…instrmntl
- and Democracy Now:
http://twitter.com/d…instrmntl
- SumWurk0
The cruise lines own a private piece of Haiti where they routinely dock. I know because I visited there two years ago. A very lovely place and totally isolated and protected (security-wise) for the "cruisers". Haitians are very nice people. Too bad what happened. Oh, so everyone should stop traveling now to pay their respects?
- El_Montr00
QBN: For a better tomorrow...
- Mimio0
//No, the correct action is to follow the moral imperative and have everyone vacation there.
- version30
security is a short term problem and i agree with you on that but if Haiti want s a come uppance, they're going to need millions and millions of real dollars to built an infrastructure and economy. live in your tent joke life all you want but without money, the people there helping will soon be gone and haiti will have a huge mess and their hands out.
- GWARanteed!version3
- that's their own business, they should build a stable political ground. it would be foolish to just pump money into chaos!!janne76
- now is the perfect time to build and employ. if they had money they could use citizens turn them into employees building a hospitalversion3
- a hospital or other needed thingsversion3
- i hope so, but i don't think so.
out now, i got accounting to do.. :(janne76
- janne760
i am out of this, even you, v3 is badly informed. sometimes i really think i am talking to a bunch of 16 year olds here.
OUT.
ps. v3, there's tonnes of help waiting to get in, supply/money is not the PRIORITY: security is.
- you'll be back...
... you will.PonyBoy - funny, you agreed with the sentiment on page 1
http://www.qbn.com/t…version3
- you'll be back...
- gramme0
Well then.
- version30
money solves all problems. it is the only thing needed
money = health, roads, hospitals, working airport, etc.
- janne760
i just read the article and the people who are shocked by this, well, i urge you to put down your steak for a week, out of solidarity and do something.
i don't do anything and will wait until it is really needed. millions of dollars were left unspent at the Asian Tsunami disaster. I can't do anything in terms of goods and i am not about to adopt a kid out of sudden emotional impulse (many people in NL do so, and i wonder how wise this is, on such a short notice).
Money and food (et al) aren't the most dire needs,
SECURITY (aka soldiers) to actually GET the help in place is key, together with a strengthened infrastructure.
the airport is overloaded and the control tower out of order.
roads are destroyed etc.
- SteveJobs0
how about a really akward charitable project:
re-shooting "I'm on a boat in haiti" with t-pain with proceeds going to charity.
- PonyBoy0
*books ticket
- BonSeff0
oh janne, you are sooo right, on all accounts, all the time.
- janne760
*sigh
- Mimio0
The moral dilemma really resides with the cruise line. Re-route the cruise elsewhere and offload all surplus food and clothing to the Haitian relief and move on.