“I strongly object to our military resources being dispatched to Haiti. “
Disagree with you there. Powerful countries do this kind of thing. Weak ineffective ones don’t.
You don’t just sit back in an event like this and do nothing. It solidifies our position as a leader and a superpower to take care of our back yard.
Disagree with you there. Powerful countries do this kind of thing. Weak ineffective ones don’t.
You don’t just sit back in an event like this and do nothing. It solidifies our position as a leader and a superpower to take care of our back yard.
Many times God blesses us because we bless others. The more we give away (willingly and cheerfully) to help those who really need it the better off we seem to get.
We were founded relying on God's providence. The least we can do is share that blessing.
Our military was not formed as an intended Meals-on-Wheels organization. We took care of Indonesia, too, and they are hardly in our backyard. China, Japan, the EU, eastern Europe, etc.......how much did they do? How about the Islamic world? They are mostly muzzie, as is Indonesia. What did they do besides sit back and laugh at us for doing all the heavy lifting? How about the UN, whom we are the largest funder of? This is supposed to be what they do, but those assholes couldn’t organize a trip to the bathroom if their lives depended on it. I am sick and tired of propping up, feeding and rescuing every victim and every damned loser on the globe. Haiti was a $#!+hole before the quake, it’s a $#!+hole now, and it will be a $#!+hole 50 years from now.
Humanitarian aid should be given privately, end of story. It is not the business of the government to take our money and give it away in emergency aid to other countries. I would not object to the State Department assisting the private organizations through assessment of the event and by utilizing their communication channels to convey logisitical planning, etc., but no taxpayer expenditures. Our “leaders” are able to pick and choose who they will help, how much and so forth, and often it’s done for political show (which seems to be what you advocate) and thrown down a rathole because of the political factors and features inherently associated with payments from one country to another.
We need more grassroots, more local control and less government in all aspects of life. This is no different.