Posted on 01/15/2010 4:53:01 AM PST by USALiberty
Desperate Haitians have spent a third night in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, waiting for promised aid that is slowly trickling in following Tuesday's devastating earthquake.
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson was expected to drop anchor off the Haiti coast Friday where it will serve as a floating airport for helicopters carrying rescue teams and supplies.
Troops and planeloads of desperately needed food and medicine from many countries began slowly arriving in Haiti Thursday after the worst earthquake in 200 years reduced the capital city to rubble. The aid flights, however, have swamped the main airport.
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I am sorry. I know we should do whatever we can for these people. I will be donating to Christian relief groups. But it just bothers me when people will not take the initiative to help themselves, you know?
I sure hope this changes and we don't see what we saw after Katrina -- people sitting on their hands waiting for the USA to come do everything for them. This is what scialism/communism does to people, I guess.
The US gives money to Haiti. It disappears. The country is never any better off!
Maybe Robertson is right in regards to this POS nation where the religion is Voodoo.
Hope they are not holding their breath. Obama is busy with Health Scam. Besides He is planning on adopting Haiti.
.......Besides He is planning on adopting Haiti.......
Bubba had such thoughts but once there, abandoned them.
Were Bush still in office, reckon what today’s NY Times headlines would be?
Not Obama. We will be Haitis new parents. This is going to be worse than terrible. But for the Libs they will have a new lifetime project of creating a Socialist Utopia based on their fieled policies. An opprtunity they will not be able to resist. But not to worry Heraldo is on the way...as I predicted 2 days ago.
Thank God our tax dollars will be able to quickly rebuild the slums in Haiti and re-establish the basic poverty levels, inferior education system, and corrupt dictatorship they deserve. It’s comforting to know that billions of our tax dollars have been wasted over the years and that in the future we’ll have even greater opportunities to throw our tax dollars away on fraud and incompetence.
Correction, I don't believe that we have a "couple months" supply of potable water. 50 gallons in the water heater, which might get busted anyway in an earth quake, 5 gallons in a water cooler and a couple of one gallon jugs.
Maybe Ray Nagin can send school buses down there for them to live in.
In September 1994, U.S. troops invaded Haiti under the auspices of restoring democracy, human rights and the rule of law. At the time, the Clinton-conceived operation was hailed by leftists as a model of liberal interventionism, as former Catholic priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide was restored to power and an oppressive military regime was ousted. There was only one problem with this scenario: not only was Aristide vehemently anti-capitalist and (ironically) anti-American, he was every bit as brutal a despot as his predecessors. To make matters worse, the Clinton administration knew beforehand of Aristide’ s radical pedigree but chose to prop him into the dictator’s chair anyway, in one of foreign policy's all-time worst liberal bungles. Today, the disastrous results of Clinton’s experiment in Caribbean colonialism are painfully evident.
So what's changed?
The amount of money the US has pissed away on Haiti is unbelieveable.
That is what everyone saw from New Orleans after Katrina. The media failed to show much of Mississippi, which bore the brunt of the storm, because the folks there followed the old tenet : "GOD helps those that help themselves." It just wasn't the "heart wrenching" story that sitting and doing nothing is.
I suspect we will see tens of millions of Haitian refugees coming to this country. Democratic voters of the future.
I couldn't figure out why Rush was in the news with his "statement", but it is starting to make sense.
The problem is that all government aide is skimmed off by the crooked Haitian politicians. It never reaches the people. I heard someone being interviewed on Fox News say that we should give to private relief organizations like churches who will spend the money wisely and it will go to the people. I agree.
It’s a little different—Haiti is dirt (literally) poor. There aren’t as many convenience stores to loot or gardens from which they can sustain themselves.
The problem is indeed rampant corruption. Billions have been poured into Haiti with very little going to the people. Churches and medical groups are the only ones making a real difference but it is a drop in the bucket. We should clean out corruption, help them build a desal plant so they will have clean water and the infrastructure to get the water to the people, rebuild their homes to withstand natural disaster the best they can and then get out. We’re going to spend the money anyway, it might as well be put to good, long-term use. There are millions of construction workers out of work—send them to Haiti to build homes!
The fact is racial politics is precisely what got Haiti in this mess in the first.
Papa Doc Duvalier gained power by exploiting the resentment of the blacks towards the lighter-skinned mulattoes and creoles that constituted a good portion of Haiti’s business and land-owning classes in the 60’s. He basically killed or drove out Haiti’s productive class and distributed the spoils amongst his Tonton Macoute thugs, who only knew how to wave machetes around instead of actually running an economy.
It’s pretty much the same modus operandi that Mugabe is employing today in Zimbabwe.
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