but there is corruption, and there is racism, and if you look, martinique and guadeloupe are part of france. france sent them on, and they are the descendants of slaves. they do not have the situation in haiti has, which is an outcast. i think what frederick douglass says, which is true. after the earthquake there were incredible articles. pat robinson said patients made a pact with the devil. it was the first time he seemed to be on the side of the french, and many conservatives and moderate columnists attack patients as having brought this upon themselves, and i do not believe that is true. i think that is a position they have in the western hemisphere as an african nation that has led to a lot of prejudice against them by the countries that surround them. >> how would you respond to those who say the cosmos has lined up against haiti? >> i do not believe that. i am pretty much an atheist, so because most does not do much. it is an island that has had a lot of hurricanes, but everyone has had a lot of hurricanes. the cosmos have not lined up against them. that is for people who bel

so i think -- i mean, i saw the martinique -- i will go as far as to say, do not sell american stocks any more off of europe. it's a sucker's game. >> on that note, ron baron on "squawk" this morning talking markets. listen. >> i'm expecting 7% average growth for an extended period of time. the economy's growing about 7% a year. including inflation. and how long is that going to take? if you grow 7% a year, that means you double your money every ten years. that means if the stock market is 14,000 now, it could be 28,000 in ten years, and it could be 50,000 or 60,000 in 20 years. >> nice long-term bullish view of the markets. not just for the six months or even the next year. >> you compare it to bonds, which is what he's doing, you feel pretty darn good. it's also -- there's a lot of good chatter about pension plans being so far behind. i would love it, just in terms of companies being able to return money, if they were less worried about pension plans. that kind of talk makes me maybe embolden pension plans to say, let's get a little more risky and maybe we can pay off. that's also g

narrator: gauguin returned to paris late in 1887 and sold some of his martinique paintings.e perceptive critic octave mirbeau was spellbound. ra sacred, eden-like abundance in these forest interiorstery, with their monstrous vegetation and flowers and their tremendous sunsets. narrator: gauguin returned to brittany in 1888. two years earlier he had left as an observer. he returned as a prophet. reader (gauguin): i love brittany. here i find wild and primitive features. when my wooden clogs resound on this granite ground, i hear the muffled and powerful thud that i seek in my painting. when my wooden clogs resound on this granite ground, naator: finding pont-aven too touristy, he took lodgings in le pouldu, a fishing village on the atlantic ocean. the hotel buvette de la plage was home to painters of a new generation looking for a new path. gauguin urged artists not to copy nature too much and express instead images and ideas forged in the mind. in his painting of jacob wrestling the angel, the bold red background ignores the natural world and replaces it with color that crea