Posted on 01/14/2010 11:52:55 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Watching the ongoing relief efforst on TV, it is frustrating to know that people deserately need the basics and will probably not get them for days. The officials are offloading everything at the airport andit is stacking up. I am no expert, but IMO we need to be doing a 2 pronged approach to this disaster, and airstyle-type drop of World War II combined with the precise relief we are seeing set up on television. But why they are not doing the airdrops is beyond me. The peeople need the basics such as water and crackers and these could beeasily airdropped.
If anyone of any importance is reading this, please consider airdrops! People will not make it to surgery if they do not get the water they need.
Seeing a Thursday Associate Press article about the thousands of FEMA trailers in storage about to be put up for auction at near giveaway prices brings an idea to mind. Why not provide them to Haiti for emergency housing?
Tax dollars paid at least full price for them originally. Aid money will be used to build shelter on site in Haiti at probably more than transporting and giving the campers free would cost. Many campers size would fit easily into sea going containers.
Arkansas Senators Pryor and Lincoln are reportedly trying to halt the auction as unfair competition to the local manufactured home dealers and industry. Having other aid funds that would be spent anyway transferred to provide the campers would be non-competitive and maybe even stimulate the manufactured home industry and provide humanitarian aid at the same time.
How about the Katrina FEMA trailers from Hope, AR, giving hope to devastated Haitians for taxpayer bargain relief as well?
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