Stupid he who gives,
Imbecile he who does not take.
Haitian proverb
Market women, hiking down out of the mountains with produce for Port-au-Prince one day last week, reached the way stop of Petionville to find a situation of astonishing, rapturous stupidity. There stood trucks, orange military buses and trim government Jeepsters, doors invitingly open, all offering free rides to the capital. No imbeciles, the women lowered from their heads baskets of pineapples and beans, loaded the stuff aboard the vehicles and climbed in, some for the first auto ride of their lives.
Free transportation for the populace was the answer of...
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