Posted on 01/14/2010 7:10:42 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
Disaster Relief: Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti was its worst since 1770, leaving the capital in ruins and a death toll that may top 100,000. But help is on its way, and it's America leading the effort.
Our tiny tragic neighbor was already in bad shape when the 7.0 earthquake struck the capital of Port-au-Prince. It wasn't just any 7.0 quake, as if that were not bad enough, but a shallow one, meaning it shook harder.
Worse still, it hit the most populated area of the country, where 3 million of the country's 9 million citizens live — and left thousands dead and many more homeless.
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We should just annex it and make it a state..............
Yeah, the _resident just announced that we’re going to send Haiti more than 100 million dollars for relief. He’s awful free with money we just don’t have anymore.
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Let’s get Haley Barbour to coordinate this necessary effort.
They wouldn’t use them to fish..........They’d all come here...............
It would still be cheaper....
“the _resident just announced that we’re going to send Haiti more than 100 million dollars for relief. “
That will buy a lot of guns
“Yeah, the _resident just announced that we’re going to send Haiti more than 100 million dollars for relief.”
Given Haitian government corruption, that ought to be good for about $10 million of actual aid getting to the people.
Yep I agree. Many of Haitians already live in the U.S. And it’s clear that there’s no way that Haiti can do the reconstruction on their own. So we should go ahead and formally conquer the country. Although this would be the first in history as a “conquest by earthquake”.
Set sail to Miami.
Better make that 5 million getting to the people. The UN practically runs the place now.
What happened to the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC????????
Haiti is just one half of the island!!!!
“We should just annex it and make it a state..............”
No let’s not. Florida almost has done that. Haiti will not become more like America but America will become more like a toilet like Haiti.
The lady who was at the W Ft. Laud rally during the elections who said “Obama is gonna pay my mortgage and put gas in my car” was a Haitian-American named Peggy Joseph.
9 million new democrats.
Finally, someone else who noticed the same thing.
I suggest the Dominica Republic is just fine.
I’ve long been fascinated by the fact that Haiti is always in trouble, yet the Dominican Republic goes on its merry way.
I was just thinking that ordinarily, I would never send any money to Haiti. They are the perfect example of repeating the same behavior and expecting a different outcome. Billions of dollars later they are still the same old rathole, what we have been doing hasn’t worked, SO STOP IT!
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs! American altruism to the rescue.
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