This morning I think I heard Nora O'Donnell say that 45% of Haiti's population

[Skidmore]

is children. Did anyone else catch that? 45%. All the more reason to help this nation, which like so many others that were ravaged by civil wars and coups, are left to learn a way forward from scratch.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. 100% are people.

No need to quantify it.

[aquart]

2. 45% ain't bad at all.

Where the civil wars have been raging for years, it's more like 85% under 18. In those places, the natural end of puberty is death.

[sandnsea]

3. Haiti is the population of NYC

in an area about the size of Maryland. It's an astonishing catastrophe.

And I really get annoyed with people who say that 9 million people should just all go back to farming. Would they say Maryland should just all go back to farming? The answer is labor rights, not try to create 4 or 5 million farms.

[Vincardog]

4. Creating millions of farms is what got Haiti denuded of trees. All those people trying to make a

living off poor land started the problems.

[timeforpeace]

5. Every other Caribbean nation is wealthy from tourism. Why not Haiti?