{"id":4925,"date":"2010-04-22T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2010-04-22T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:18:33","slug":"killing-haiti-with-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4925\/killing-haiti-with-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Haiti with Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The general rule of political economy is that issues that tug on the public&#8217;s heartstrings are the ones most likely to produce a government response mired in muddy thinking and unintended consequences (think about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2125810\/\" target=\"_blank\">the rebuilding of New Orleans<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>CBS News provides testimony to this maxim courtesy of a shocking report from the Caribbean: Haiti wants the food aid sent in the aftermath of its devestating earthquake to stop! Per CBS:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The public outpouring is so generous it&#8217;s interfering with the Haitian economy.<\/p>\n<p>If food is free local farmers can&#8217;t sell what they grow.<\/p>\n<p>Desperately poor residents who aren&#8217;t earthquake victims are moving into refugee camps for the free food and health care. But the government wants residents to be less dependent on foreign aid, not more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole thing (plus video) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/04\/21\/eveningnews\/main6419171.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The general rule of political economy is that issues that tug on the public&#8217;s heartstrings are the ones most likely to produce a government response mired in muddy thinking and unintended consequences (think about the rebuilding of New Orleans). CBS News provides testimony to this maxim courtesy of a shocking report from the Caribbean: Haiti [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1157,1156,749,1158],"class_list":["post-4925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-disaster-relief","tag-foreign-aid","tag-haiti","tag-unintended-consequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4929,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}