Bush’s fault....
They should be pounding the Haitian government. They have been given billions over the past 20 years and have hardly any infrastructure. What's up with that? Did you see the palace that the President of Haiti lived in?? DISGUSTING!! I do not think we should just be throwing money at these corrupt governments any more. The people hardly get any benefits or help, the government officials use our money like there own personal bank accounts and we are losing billions of dollars for nothing.
Sad but true.
I don’t agree with this premise. Most charities operate with 85-90% overheads and donating to the Bush-Clinton Relief fund is like donating to the Billary-Chelsea welfare scheme. That is what professional charity organizations are about.
Sadly, many who hate America live here and claim to be American citizens.
I once penned a brief parody on this topic. A number of persons wrote me to say that they thought it might have been culled from the pages of the New York Times.
These are dark days. They won't brighten until we recover our inner Theodore Roosevelt. Not the Teddy who advanced Progressivism, but the one who was unafraid of "international opinion" or the chitterings of the elite.
Never before has it been so urgent that we recall how to flip the bird to those who disparage us.
Yours for freedom,
Francis W. Porretto
Curmudgeon Emeritus to the World Wide Web
The MSM is a bunch of evil ba$tard$. It is time to hold them accountable for their lies.
I knew this would happen as soon as he got involved. He just hates black folks you know...
Exactly right. And it's because of the creep of Socialism into our daily lives.
This exact same scenario plays out every time a hurricane blows through. You can set your watch by the reporterette on TV interviewing some schmo who has not prepared in the least for the arrival of the hurricane and who is whining about the government not providing food, water, ice in a timely fashion, even though it has only been 24hrs since the hurricane departed.
While idiot reporters, without the slightest comprehension of the scope of the task at hand, quizzed soldiers about why they didn't airdrop in or land helicopters here and there.
It goes on to indicate the perils of that kind of airdrop with huge crowds below. I remember reading about the tragedy that happened in WW2. Planes dropped huge containers on a prisoner of war camp, just liberated from the Japanese. Three men were killed after surviving the hell of that camp. Crushed.
The viewing public has to know what is happening, this is conceded. Nothing, but nothing seems to touch the press there. Sometimes getting in the way. One can imagine the swaggering and the reflected glory of these people later. No doubt well fortified.
"How I suffered and cried in Haiti".
Aid agencies and donor countries were accusing the US military of giving its own aircraft priority. Outside the airport, aid workers protested that nobody seemed to be in charge as looting and lawlessness rose sharply on the streets of Port-au-Prince.
"Who's the top dog" in-fighting caused the delay of immediate portable hospitals, security. “Priority must be given immediately to planes carrying life-saving equipment and medical personnel," the US military had said. French Co-operation Minister reportedly called on the UN to investigate America’s role in the relief effort and protested: “This is about helping Haiti, not occupying it.” “I don’t really know who’s in charge,” said Benoît Leduc, MSF’s operations manager in the capital.
Aid officials in Haiti complained of the lack of coordination between the UN, the US and aid agencies and were outraged when the airport was closed to incoming medical care, so that Mrs Clinton could visit. Mrs. Clinton had to realize that lives would be lost with security forces diverted and rescue in a holding pattern to her arrival. After all, had she not reportedly (by her) dodged bullets before, after landing in a terrorist country, [she] running from her aircraft? Wow, how scary was that Mrs. Clinton?
We certainly stress how important aid workers are in such a disaster, but the US military should have been allowed to do what they do best to "ready and secure the area" so aid could be received--even many in the media [Couric, etc] reported "bureaucracy". Who's in charge?
....and how do you stop search & rescue when a day earlier a survivor was found in good shape but needing water?? We know miracles happen.
Heard the story where boxes of blood pressure wraps were received in Haiti, but the bulbs you pump with were missing-so of no use to medical workers?
And now Haiti is the way for celebrities who have been shamed to suddenly pretend they are good people.....case in point, John Edwards. “Go help Haiti and all your sins will be forgiven.”
Haiti fatigue already setting in
Thre is no “Haitian word” for thaank you because there is no such language as “Haitian”. They speak FRENCH in Haiti and a dialect derived from it called “Creole”.
Much of AFP’s noise on the topic stemmed from a single flight that was refused priority, that was there to evacuate French citizens, many of whom were wealthy Haitians with dual citizenship. Cry me a river. IIRC Sarkozy told them to stick a sock in it. AFP is institutionally anti-U.S.-military.