Help for Haiti, who is giving???

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I just wonder what has happened to the 8 BILLION dollars a year we have given Haiti, the last 8 or 9 years. They did not use it too help there people
 
I will answer the above two posts in one...

Jimmy: What kind of help would you expect from Haiti?

Gunsmith: According to a government report, U.S. taxpayers handed "about 1.1 billion in assistance" to Haiti during the 1990s. In the following decade, the sum jumped to around $1.6 billion; it would have been higher if aid had not been cut off from 1999 through mid-2004 after the election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
 
If I give something I dont expect anything back, or it wouldnt be called giveing. Somewhere in the bible I read if your enemy thirsts, to give him water. I cant explain why I was born in the U.S.A, at the best time in history, by the best christian parents, I dont recall what I done to be rewarded that way. I cant explain God, I just trust in him. I dont belive we can hurt ourselves by doing kindness.
Yes, I have read of the looting, witchcraft, voodoo, corurption, ignorance, stealing, 4,000 escaped prisioners on the streets, welfare, aids, all manner of crimes and debachery. Whats that got to do with injured, starveing kids? Had I been born there, I might have been the badest.
 
In all fairness to China, they have a limited amount of US dollars to give to Haiti... they are lending their US dollars to America. :rolleyes:

Guys... it's not about our federal govt being caring of other nations and people in distress... it's about the money and who gets it... and the power derived from those politicians deciding who gets the money. Always has been...

This Haiti tragedy sounds like another never ending occupation in the making.
 
feralmerril said:
If I give something I dont expect anything back, or it wouldnt be called giveing. Somewhere in the bible I read if your enemy thirsts, to give him water. I cant explain why I was born in the U.S.A, at the best time in history, by the best christian parents, I dont recall what I done to be rewarded that way. I cant explain God, I just trust in him. I dont belive we can hurt ourselves by doing kindness.
Yes, I have read of the looting, witchcraft, voodoo, corurption, ignorance, stealing, 4,000 escaped prisioners on the streets, welfare, aids, all manner of crimes and debachery. Whats that got to do with injured, starveing kids? Had I been born there, I might have been the badest.
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+1 to everything he said.
 
I've been reading this for awhile and have to say something.Forget about their Gov and corruption.Kids and innocent people are suffering.We don't have to give, It's a choice we make.
Now God forbid if something like that happened in the USA,Should I say that because Obama and his Idiots run that country,Screw everyone.? NO.


Ken
 
Call me cold, uncaring, whatever. I am sending my prayers for the Haitians. But when it comes to money, food, medical supplies, all I have to do is go downtown, or read the news, and I see hundreds of thousands of people in THIS country who have nothing more than the Haitians. To me, this is the real tragedy. We can send hundreds of millions to Haiti, but for some reason we can't end the hunger and homelessness right here in our own country. We had a deficit of $1.4 trillion in '09, the government is spending money faster than it can be printed, and yet scenes like those below are growing all across the U.S. Many of these folks are vets, who fought for this country. My prayers to the Haitians, but my monetary and food donations will stay in this country.

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True, we have our own problems right here..but we do offer help to our own through a multitude of charitable organizations that I'm sure many of us on this board contribute to. And sadly, many homeless do not take advantage of what's available to them. But I still can't believe how callous and insensitive some of the previous posters hve been to the plight of these devastated human beings. Picture yourself, or God forbid your child, trapped under a slab of concrete in 100 degree heat slowly dying from starvation and dehydration...I wonder if politics would enter your mind between your muffled screams.
 
Misty, I can agree to your thoughts somewhat. Fortunately, many if not the majority of the homeless in America can get off their butts and do something about it. Many have made choices in their lives that brought them to their knees, whether to not pursue their education that would allow them a decent job, drugs or alcohol, and mismanagement of their lives.

Haiti has had a corrupt government for decades, and I hope whatever relief we or other nations are doing will provide for the general population and not be scavenged by the government.
 
We as a nation are to giving and why should send money or aid to anyone else, how about helping our own?
First we blow your country to Hell then we rebuild it with our Money
We let anyone into the coutry then they ''FLY PLANES INTO OUR BUILDINGS"
If you are form another country and you have lived here for x amount of years you can apply for citizenship, We can't go to a different contry and do the same not that we would want to.
There is alot more i would like to say but it would not be "PC" to do so and i wouldn't want to offend anyone and get banned so hey AMERICA PUT AMERICANS FIRST AND SCREW THE REST
 
I posted earlier in this thread about my reasons for donating to reputable charities such as the Red Cross and Salvation Army to help them assist in dealing with this tragedy.
I ran into this article link Op-Ed Columnist - The Underlying Tragedy - NYTimes.com (from the NY Times, amazingly. The link came from Rush Limbaugh's site, I'm no pinko...). It does, perhaps, put the long-term problems of poverty in Haiti into some perspective. I don't buy all of it, but it is food for thought.
That said, the immediate situation demands our attention.
 
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