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Posted September 17, 2009                           
                     
HAITI: GRAND SCALE CORRUPTION, WASTE

As Haitians, in Increasing Numbers, Continue to Be Subject to Dehumanizing Poverty, the Annual Total Compensation Package, Before Bribes, of a Do-nothing, Proven Cretin, Famously Corrupt Haitian Deputy Is the Equal of at least U.S.$125,000
                                               
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SCOTT NELSON/WORLD PICTURES NEWS, FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES - WEHAITIANS.COM, ARCHIVES 

School children in the impoverished Cite Militaire neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.
                                                            

  •  First installation stipend - $ 2,750

  • Car purchase - $15,750

  • Monthly salary - $2,750

  • Monthly stipend - $925

  • Telephone stipend - $250

  • Car fuel stipend - $250

  • Allocation for a second residence - $6,250

  • Office expenses allocation (in province) - $3,750/per year

  • Personal office expenses allocation - $1,875

  • Agent of security and driver - $625

  • Stipend for Departmental celebrations - $875

  • Fourteenth month - $2,750

  • Expense allocation for Hurricane season 2008 - $2,250

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    *Not included in this table is the $US200 to 250 thousand dollars (8 to 10 million gourdes) that each member of the Chamber administrates in their respective districts, used mostly as pork barrel to enhance their political fortunes.

    This, in a country where the industrial salary of the Haitian worker is a mere 70 gourdes (22 cents an hour) or US$1.70 per day.

    As can be seen in the table above, it would take a Haitian worker over a century of working 12 hours a day to make as much money as that allocated in one year to just one of these 99 guard dogs (the Haitian legislature comprises 99 deputies and 30 senators).

    MORE, in French: Haiti Parlement 08_09 / In English: My Quality of Life, Your Quality of Life
                                               
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