Posted on 01/15/2010 7:04:48 PM PST by Kartographer
Anger turned to violence on the streets of Haiti as earthquake survivors lost their patience with the painfully slow process of getting international aid to those desperate for food, water and medical treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I hate to say it but God must know what hes doing and these people have not been punished enough they are wothless idiots.
No worries Obama will send the troops to go wipe their noses and coddle them with endless boatloads of rice
The thing is there are innocent babies and children that are really hurt by this natural disaster. It’s heartbreaking to see the children that are in the middle of that messs.
The orphans are who we should bring to the US. Have Americans adopt the orphans of this disaster.
There was no looting in Mississippi and it was leveled far far worse than New Orleans.
“...now they are demanding that WE save them from themselves. AND, they are getting angry at us for not meeting their expectations.”
Do we have to do anything for the poor retches?
No, ,,, No we don’t.
If they don’t understand that lesson then any shortfalls they bring on themselves.
My 5 kids grew up on day old bread. It was a real money saver and no big deal.
From what I hear they got the package date 2008 confused with the expiration date, which was 11/2010—Sad mistake—
Funny thing is that those of us 45+ grew up without expiration dates—we relied on our common sense and our senses....Most of us could see, taste or smell whether something is good or bad. If a cookie was 2 years past expiration, it would not pass the tests—I would not need an expiration date....
My children freak out if something is 12 hours after the expiration date. I tell them they can use their eyes & nose like we did. I knew no one who died from bad food or even got food poisoning when I was growing up. Maybe I am wrong, but I have always used freshness dates as a guideline.
I remember when times where lean in my life. When we got food looking at the expiration date was the last thing we did! Usually we old bread. Not a thing wrong with that as I remember. We were thankfull we had it.
“It’s heartbreaking to see the children that are in the middle of that messs.”
The whole event is heartbreaking, agreed. I don’t believe the US can save the world.
We are borrowing money against our own childrens future to pay for what we are doing in Haiti. Our own children may not be able to eat in the near future because of this.
“For god’s sake if your starving would you be picky about the expiration date of a cookie.”
The earthqake happened less than a week ago. They may be very hungry but they are not starving.
However I agree with your point.
rich white people. Especially racist americans that wouldn’t vote for obama because they’re racist.
“Haitian nurses—techs—and general help could not have been nicer and were never loafing”
I’m guessing this was in a hospital in the US.
Know what will happen if those kids are brought to the USA? The left will say we KIDNAPPED THEM. And that final blow will come after there are CONSTANT screams for more funding for their re-settlement, counseling, doctoring —a million and one things.
Then they’ll go on to write books about the turmoil, confusion, and heart-wrenching separation from the Motherland —how the warm island breezes call to them and so on. And about how alienated they feel in the US.
The bizarre, misplaced sense of original sin of Americans is BOTTOMLESS, the product of some parallel universe, close but unseen.
the more food you throw away, the better for the food producers. They know this so they put bogus expiration dates on everything.
If I were starving, looking at the expiration date wouldn’t even cross my mind. There is nothing wrong with stale bread or cookies.
I don’t believe anything the media reports. I don’t believe their bleeding heart stories. I can’t tell what is real and what is staged. Yes, there are casualties, not doubt, but the ones that can work need to get off their a$$es and start rebuilding their own country.
I'm sure one could find such a person - OCD is not uncommon. To decide to not help on the basis of some person reacting like that is pretty crummy.
These people are now dealing with an unimaginable horror show of 40-50,000 estimated dead in the streets, many more severely injured, and an infrastructure broken to bits. A cookie? Get real.
the more food you throw away, the better for the food producers. They know this so they put bogus expiration dates on everything.
“These people are now dealing with an unimaginable horror show of 40-50,000 estimated dead in the streets, many more severely injured, and an infrastructure broken to bits.”
The death estimates were 500,000 at first.
Its certainly a tragedy.
Why do you want to take the young people out of their home country. They are the ones who could pull their country out of their misery.
We think we are doing well by bringing people here but we are raping these countries of their future when we do that.
If anything we need to be sending the Haitian immigrants who have been successful here in the US back over there to help build the country.
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