[huldah1776]

Give a man a fish...

[dfwgator]

What I’ve been saying all along. Our approach to aiding Haiti has killed off their economy, who can compete with free food, or free doctors?

[dfwgator]

“For God’s Sake, Please Stop the Aid!”

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/spiegel-interview-with-african-economics-expert-for-god-s-sake-please-stop-the-aid-a-363663.html

[Eagles6]

Dominican Republic is on the same island. They’re doing okay.

[KarlInOhio]

I've heard the same complaint from African farmers. We come in with food aid right when food supplies are tightest - right before the harvest. The farmers go broke because the food price has plummeted so they aren't around for next year's crop. Or else they give up on food crops and plant other things like cotton in the future.

[super7man]

Same thing happened to the budding garment industry in West Africa. American donations of free clothing put them out of business.

[razorback-bert]

They are sending them to Haiti, because they can't make them into peanut butter for schools...peanut allergy.

[fella]

Aren’t the Clintons making a ton of money off the Haiti relief scam?

[Cowboy Bob]

But what about all the children in Haiti who will die because they are allergic to peanuts??

Who wants to take responsibility for that?

[lucky american]

When the earthquake hit the US sent thousands of flashlights. Not a battery to be found.

[lucky american]

When the earthquake hit the US sent thousands of flashlights. Not a battery to be found.

[lucky american]

When the earthquake hit the US sent thousands of flashlights. Not a battery to be found.

[ronnie raygun]

What a bunch of ingrates! this is a gift from the Clintons and the bushes. Remember the two side by side, friends, asking for your donations This is the proceeds from the Haiti relief fund you know that devastating earthquake that to this day has left them in tents

[Senator_Blutarski]

Don’t they call this phenomenon a “cargo cult”?

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/cargocult.htm

[Repeal The 17th]

“... 500 metric tons of peanuts to help feed 140,000 malnourished schoolchildren ...”
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Every child gets 7 pounds of peanuts.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Haiti’s persistent problem is the lack of arable farmland. So one of the best things for them would be to send in an American corporation, with American equipment, to create farms from scratch. Farms with their own water supplies, rich, improved topsoil, and probably a closed community of farmers, to include their local government.