Posted on 01/21/2010 11:10:58 AM PST by pinochet
Most of us have heard that the US government and private charities plan to import thousands of Haitian orphans to America. Has America gone crazy? For years, we have been told of the large number of American children (many of whom are minorities) who are in foster care, and in institutions, who cannot get families to adopt them. There is also a large number of American children (mainly teenagers) who sleep in the streets, and do not have the support of foster homes or insitutions. There are also many homeless people in America, who cannot find beds in overcrowded homeless shelters, because they lost their jobs in this failing economy. America is also groaning under the burden of providing over 20 million illegal immigrants with healthcare, welfare benefits, and education for their kids. Why can't America take care of the needs of people living in America first, before diverting resources to Haiti? Why do Americans (such as Madonna and Angelina Jolie) find it so fashionable to adopt kids from the thirdworld, when there are many American kids who do not have homes?
According to media reports, Haiti had 10,000 Western charities working in the country, before the earthquake struck. It is these charities which kept many people fed and provided with healthcare, and allowed them to breed and increase their population irresponsibly, to 9.7 million people in that overcrowded country. Now, the number of charities may double in number to 20,000, and will provide free food and free healthcare, that will allow even more irresponsible breeding. Have Americans learnt nothing from the failed welfare experiments of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, which destroyed America's inner cities, and subsidized the breeding of large numbers of illegitimate ghetto children?
What if America faces a natural disaster? How many foreign nations will volunteer to come and help Americans in their time of need? How many foreign countries came to help America during the Hurricane Katrina disaster? How many countries have helped America recover from the numerous hurricane disasters of the past?
>>>The longer we stay the more we will be blamed for and asked to fix that too. We could be bogged down forever until we get the backbone to say enough, the rest is up to the Haitians.
An excellent observation. We should impose limits on the number of weeks in which we provide humanitarian aid. We can have something like 2 weeks worth of humanitarian aid, and during that time, the third world government should get its act together. Then we should split and leave them to handle their own long term affairs.
But we had charities working in Haiti before the earthquake, which have been providing so-called humanitarian aid for decades. This is a privately run welfare system, which is just as bad as a government run welfare system. When people get free food and health care for years, without doing anything to earn it, what do you call that? Here is the NYT article showing that Haiti had 10,000 charities working in the country before the earthquake: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/opinion/14kidder.html
It’s just plain nuts.
One thing we don’t need in this country is more folks that won’t work.
Bring back General Cedros! Cedros was a good man and a strong leader who was bringing business and prosperity to Haiti for the first time in its history. Then the Black Caucus demanded Clinton reinstate Aristide and that was the end of Haiti.
Bring back General Cedros! Cedros was a good man and a strong leader who was bringing business and prosperity to Haiti for the first time in its history. Then the Black Caucus demanded Clinton reinstate Aristide and that was the end of Haiti.
bttt
Heck, why bother with the green cards...
You might as well pile all the money in the middle of the street, pour gasoline all over it and strike a match.
You cannot vote with a green card, period. However, I don't the language in the TPS!!!
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