Is American Aid To Haiti A Waste Of Money, That Will Make Things Worse?

[pinochet]

>>>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

[Venturer]

It’s just plain nuts.

One thing we don’t need in this country is more folks that won’t work.

[Deb]

People want to do something, anything. They want to get on a plane, race to those suffering children and save them. All they can do is send money, so they do it. Unfortunately, it will be money used to finance the continuation of a Marxist abomination that will just continue the suffering.

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.

[BitWielder1]

This is a privately run welfare system

Exactly. Welfare begets dependency.
As long as you can survive doing nothing why would you do anything?
We should learn from that here as well and start demanding that people do some work to earn their meal.
They will cry and complain, but I believe if you have either two hands or two braincells to rub together, there is something you can do.
There is no lack of work do do in Haiti, to rebuild and all.
The more they do themselves the better.

[Louis Foxwell]

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

[bgill]

Green Cards and the vote.

Heck, why bother with the green cards...

[TruthFactor]

You might as well pile all the money in the middle of the street, pour gasoline all over it and strike a match.

[danamco]

** Couldn’t be any clearer. Green Cards and the vote.

You cannot vote with a green card, period. However, I don't the language in the TPS!!!