Haiti Quake: Thousands Still Living In Tents (2 year anniversary; Hussein failed foreign policy)

sky.com ^ | 1/12/12

[Recovering_Democrat]

More than 500,000 people in Haiti are still living in makeshift tents two years after an earthquake devastated the country.

The Caribbean state was hit by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake on January 12, 2010, which led to more than 220,000 deaths and left 1.5 million homeless.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Remember Hussein promising to help Haiti? Fail. Just like his promise to fix the economy here in America.

The REAL help to Haiti has come from Christ followers working with their hands and hearts.

[ronnie raygun]

Where’s all the money Clinton and Bush?

[mewzilla]

If it was distributed through the Clinton Foundation, a story from 2005......

Watchdog Cites Failures at Charity

[Donnafrflorida]

I did not trust any charity. I loaded truckloads of supplies and drove them to Venice Florida (Agape) where I watched them load the supplies on a small plane. I watched the plane take off. 180 missionaries in Haiti where there to pick up supplies. I did my homework and I KNOW the supplies we sent were on the ground and being used within a day of sending them.

[freeangel]

“Remember Hussein promising to help Haiti”

There weren’t enough muslims killing and mutilating for hussein to hand over any aid to keep it going.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Just give them $1 a day to move to another poor country.

[PowderMonkey]

Don't get me started...I nearly got thrown out of a class at the Foreign Service Institute when we addressed the subject of foreign aid and Haiti. The visiting lecturer had just mentioned the total dollar amount in foreign aid Haiti had received for the year. Doing some quick work with a pocket calculator I determined it would have been far less expensive (by tens of millions) to have simply given everyone on the island a cheque for $50K, and let free enterprise flourish, unencumbered by government interference. The response was in a word “unpleasant.”

[A CA Guy]

Those kinds of supplies get eaten up in a week.

Was there money to rebuild some of Haiti? If so, what was built with the donation money? How do we know what was donated?

You have to depend on lots of honesty here and there isn't much history to support there is any in a case such as this one.

[hal ogen]

With all the money the misguided have given to Haiti, maybe they are really, really,REALLY nice tents? Who are we to criticize?

[TheOldLady]

Boop Their Tiny Tamarin Tootsies!

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[Roninf5-1]

Here is a fun little mental exercise. Make the population of Haiti entirely Japanese. Make the population of Japan entirely Haitian. The land and infrastructure remain the same. What would the islands of Haiti and Japan look like in ten years?

[Donnafrflorida]

Agape has a 30 year history helping Haiti. We donated for three months. There was an airplane hanger full if supplies. I know my supplies git TO THE PEOPLE.

[Donnafrflorida]

Agape has a 30 year history helping Haiti. We donated for three months. There was an airplane hanger full if supplies. I know my supplies git TO THE PEOPLE.

[dfwgator]

Sending doctors to Haiti to provide free medical care = Putting Haitian doctors out of work

Sending food to Haiti = Putting Haitian farmers out of work

You want to help Haiti? STOP THE FRIGGIN’ AID!!!

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

B-b-but I thought all cultures were EQUAL!!! You mean to tell me all my liberal, communist, scumbag professors were actually WRONG? /s