>>7090695too much shitposting i see...
But we know that it's a tool for building lives and creating markets where none exist before. And so this proposal will include such funding.
The president's proposal will also help rebuild the roads, homes and schools that people rely on every day. For example, 6,000 new open air schools will be created and school supplies will be put in the hands of 200,000 children.
Finally, this proposal we hope will help our neighbors prepare for their future in several different ways. They need more help in creating better systems to deal with disasters. That is one of the strong recommendations I heard as I met with the leaders in these countries. Some countries were better prepared than others, but all can use some additional help.
They also need help in shifting the way they do agriculture, not only to more productive crops, but to help manage the environment better. Some of the damage was caused by the impact that erosion had created in many of the areas so that the rains literally had nowhere to go but to create mudslides. So there needs to be more thought given as to how to create productive agricultural land with perhaps new crops and at the same time undo the damage that erosion and environmental degradation has created in order to be better prepared for future storms.
: This package also includes $50 million to help the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the eastern Caribbean restore the housing, health care and jobs destroyed by Hurricane Georges. I saw again personally when I visited the Dominican Republic and Haiti the continuing effects of the damage from Hurricane Georges in both of those countries, and this will be a very welcome addition to the work that those countries are doing.
This proposal also includes an additional $10 million to help the victims of the recent earthquake in Colombia, a devastating earthquake whose damage is still being assessed in some r posal is the product of close
