Get BIG for Haiti.avi

To wise women and men

Given the natural catastrophe that stroke Haiti,
given the large media coverage,
given the huge sums of money that governments, organisations and people commit to Haiti,
given the poor track record of all development aid,
given the amount of money that will "disappear" in dark and grey channels,
given the food overproduction, the mistaken industrialisation of agriculture and the need for small-scale employment-oriented subsistence agriculture
given the encouraging and positive real-life field experiences with a basic income in Namibia and Brazil,
given all the academic research and the existence of a world wide network
given many other reasons amongst them the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
given the need for another way to deal with a highly dynamic and complex environment, where command and control always lead either to catastrophes or sub optimal results,
given that everyone is an artist,
given that we, all, are standing on the shoulders of the same giants,

We claim that the world community should pay part of the donated aid money as a Basic Income Grant (BIG) for every Haitian Citizen. As a start the BIG could amount to 500 Gourdes (+/-9 EUR/+/-10 $). On a population of 9 million this amounts to € 81 million per month, which is less than 1% of the monthly costs of the Iraq war. At a later stage part of the BIG could be financed by raising moderately the VAT rate. In paying out BIG in the form of a complimentary currency and thus avoiding the negative impact of money hoarding.
Haiti needs a model for its society that will take away the most extreme forms of deprivation, such as poverty, malnutrition, starvation, fear and on the other hand that opens new perspectives for the Haitians. BIG will replace the ancient saying "He who does not work shall not eat" with the new paradigm "He who does not eat, cannot work". We do not want to live in a society where some members, like the majority of Haitians, need to depend on the compassion of others.

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