tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30408888.post1036702424838887420..comments2023-09-04T08:51:16.091-06:00Comments on Hermano Juancito: Honduras and migration to the USJohn (Juancito) Donaghyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711543214465586727noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30408888.post-71223626105769605132013-01-15T12:52:41.495-06:002013-01-15T12:52:41.495-06:00Yes, it's amazing what small investments can d...Yes, it's amazing what small investments can do to improve the quality of life, John. <br /><br />But migration is a mega-trend, driven by global warming, destruction of rural life by agribusiness, the decline of indigenous culture, and many other strands. In the US, we've been witnessing this trend since ca. 1900! <br /><br />To reverse a big trend like this will require a lot. I'm very grateful for your work. Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04761044906837521471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30408888.post-40168442665772191462013-01-14T10:53:54.214-06:002013-01-14T10:53:54.214-06:00I hope we can begin small projects to help people ...I hope we can begin small projects to help people become more self-sustaining - in production and marketing of coffee, in basic grains and vegetable production.<br />John (Juancito) Donaghyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12711543214465586727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30408888.post-64952254570861835942013-01-13T21:08:42.706-06:002013-01-13T21:08:42.706-06:00What it comes down to is that we need a faith comm...What it comes down to is that we need a faith community in the US that is capable of paying for the schools and other jobs that the Honduran government won't. <br /><br />The problem is that it would take an amount of money large enough to require the church to change its nature. To hire 1 million Hondurans at $1,500 per year is $1.5B. To do the same throughout Central America would probably take something like $10B. And <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/08/economist-digs-into-us-churchs-finances.html" rel="nofollow">it's not as though</a> that's an overwhelming amount of money to the Catholic Church (much less the evangelical Protestant churches);<br /><br /><i>Then again, the American Catholic Church spends just six percent of its $170 billion annual budget — more than General Electric earns each year — on the upkeep of local parishes. In reality it's like a large public-private corporation, funding itself increasingly through publicly-held debt, running a hospital system four times larger than the U.S.'s biggest private hospital chain, HCA Holdings, and operating a network of schools four times larger than the New York City Department of Education. </i> <br /><br />The Church (both Catholic and Universal) would need to see itself less as a corporation and more as the hands of Jesus. Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04761044906837521471noreply@blogger.com