Then why did she go?
Sarah is right on target again with her statement that additional US airlifts to Haiti will help solve the Haiti Crisis.
Sarah is right on target again with her statement that additional US airlifts to Haiti will help solve the Haiti Crisis.
So much aid gets stolen that only the military can get it in - and that’s why, right after the earthquake, Haiti refused to let the US military distribute aid. Unless the Haitian government can steal it, they don’t want to let it into the country.
The big problem with Haiti right now actually is political. It’s election was stolen to put into office the designated heir of its current corrupt (Clinton and Aristide connected) president. But as Mary Anastasia O’Grady pointed out today, the US wants nothing to do with this (Bambi is also on the side of the corruptocrats) and actually instead has been expending all of its diplomatic energies in trying to make sure the Communist who tried to take over Honduras last year is spared any prison time. Bambi and company are still mad that the Hondurans prevented a coup there and he just won’t let it go - while Haiti collapses because the stolen election is the final straw.
You do have to worry though about the aid being distributed effectively, and in a way that does not do more harm than good.
I have read articles about farmers in Haiti being in crisis because so much free food was flooding in from western countries. We have to be able to help them without trashing their economy.
I forgot Haiti a long time ago. It’s cesspool and any attempts to “save” it, “fix” it or “help” it is absolutely useless. The best thing you could do is drop a nuke on it.
I’m sorry that I have to disagree with Sarah on aid to Haiti.The old saying go’s God helps those that help themselves and there is nothing the U.S. Is going to do other than throwing good money after bad.
The aid never go’s to the impoverished it’s stolen by the thugs running the government there.
Sorry but Haiti is on her own.
I lean to the line of thought that they have the resources they need. So many people with time on their hands. Use that first. Give people there meaningful work.
Just lost my vote... not like she was getting it anyways...
Haiti is a perfect example of what happens when helpless, uneducated, superstitious people who don’t value personal freedom or responsibility rely on dictators and the promises of snake-oil salesmen to run their Government.
That’s the lesson, Sarah - and we have many such people in the USA too.
I would have expected her to cheer the private sector work being done and the private church and NGO efforts, not ask for tax dollars. Maybe I’m not understanding something.
Not much, actually. The multi-billions in aid already sent to Haiti have been wasted or stolen; and have certainly not been used for the purposes intended. Just sending supplies is not enough -- they have to be distributed. And the government of Haiti is neither willing nor able to do that.
Sarah Palin no doubt means well, and humanitarian aid is not a bad thing for people who are starving. But it's very clear that just dropping more supplies isn't going to help those who most need them.
The roots of Haiti's current and long-standing problems deserve to be stated clearly and firmly. If there was ever a time for somebody to make a political comment, this was it.
What Haiti really needs, is for its entire government to be overthrown and exiled or imprisoned; and the country placed under martial law until such time as it can be re-colonized by a civilized nation.
The Haitians have proven time and again that they are incapable of self rule, with the only effective government they have ever had being the US Marine Corps, far too briefly.
In short, the best thing that could be done for them is to set up a highly disciplined boarding school that would only enroll thousands of very young children, and raise them to become a future government. Basically to create an elite, ruling class from scratch, without any exposure to their countrymen until they graduated.
But unlike elsewhere in the Caribbean, central and South America, these children would be programmed to *not* remain an elite, but to evolve the rest of their nation’s citizens up to their standards. Their success would be in how well they could do this. Most teachers would have to be foreigners.
So the first task of this new government would be to just maintain order, as they created an enviable public school system throughout Haiti, where all children would be under strict discipline. No exceptions. Unswerving egalitarianism, patriotism, and teamwork.
The hardest part would be to keep adults away from these children until they could be raised right.
The plan to do all of this would likely last 30 years. But hopefully, once it was done, Haiti would be forever free of its curse.
So, we wondered how we can afford to send help to Haiti, an entire country of human pets.
But thanks for the free advice anyway.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I love Sarah but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
For decades the USA has given more to “less fortunate” countries than any other country in the world and these intelligence deprived cultures continue to be cesspools. And usually cesspools that bitch about us.
The USA has a huge deficit and a self induced bad economy and until that is fixed ZERO dollars should leave our shores to help those who have demonstrated their only single ability in life is to hold out their hands.
I put the quotes on “less fortunate” as it is obvious, without the pressures of political correctness, these cultures and people have a solid hold on the left side of the intelligence bell curve.
I am almost becoming an isolationist. I’m tired of the government giving foreign aid which usually ends up in the hands of dictators.
Haiti is a lost cause... for a long time.
Still there are individuals there who are suffering and need help.
Franklin Graham is bringing aid and money from private donors. I think Sarah’s respect for him and general compassion led to her decision to go.
I don’t fault her for it.
Last I heard the money pledged to Haiti hasn’t been forthcoming.
Americans are broke and unemployed. All of that money sent for Katrina disappeared. It will in Haiti too because they need something other than only charity.