People (?) in Haiti protest and block roads because aid is too slow in coming. WTF
on 01/15/2010 at 06:11 AM
Haiti is a disaster. Again. As usual. The people are frantic and panicking. Again. As usual.
It’s very sad that it’s so easy to harden yourself to their plight, but it keeps happening over and over and over again. If it’s not an earthquake it’s a mudslide, or a hurricane, or a junta, or a famine, or a whatever.
It’s one of those places God doesn’t want people to live. Like Bangladesh, and the mountains above Los Angeles. He keeps sending them signs, but nobody listens.
And our idiot gov - Charlie Crist - here in Florida wants to bring 50,000 of them here to Florida. As the radio announcer said while reading the story, “...to work and play here in Florida.” Not mentioned was the part where the ones infected with AIDS will drive the state-funded health services further into the ground or the crime rate increasing etc.
I figure charlie has realized that he is going to get hammered into the ground by Rubio in the Senate election and just wants to give one more FU to Florida residents.
Posted by emdfl
01/15/2010 at 04:51 PM
Road blocks? Maybe the Haitians are onto something. Corpses may very well prove useful as short term building materials. Instead of tents, erect stiffs. Napolean’s army used mummies as firewood, so the Haitian materials are just “juicer.”
Posted by sig94
01/15/2010 at 05:55 PM
Actually Peiper I havent watched on second of this mess since it started.Wanna know WHY? Because this is just a network rerun of the Katrina fiasco 5 years ago and I already saw that one and I hate watching reruns for the most part.Remember this gem: They are raping and killling people inside the Super Bowl. Nuff Said!!
Of course they’ll be coming to Florida. It’s one of their ... RIGHTS. You folks stocking up on ammo etc.?
One thing I have to wonder over.. All the major relief organizations will take only cash instead of clothes and goods EXCLUSIVELY. Call me a pessimist, but there are very few people I would trust with millions (possibly tens of millions) of dollars of basically unaccounted for tax free money. They make it easy to text a pledge to the Red Cross, an organization that has PROVED to be a major mishandler of relief funds, just look at the whole fiasco with the 9/11 funds, and that all stayed in the US! What are they going to do? Take these people to Walmart Haiti for a shopping spree? Gift cards to Port-au-Prince Costco? Maybe they will send their representatives to bully major manufacturers out of free goods, then bank the cash in a “special fund” to be used later at the Chairperson’s Discretion? Too much room for graft there. I trust none of these organizations with cash. I don’t donate blood (the American Red Cross Sells it) I do donate clothes and used goods to the people who take them, refurbish (or sell) them giving work to the people who need it, and pay for soup kitchens and such.
Baah.. this is probably pointless. I just don’t like to see people being being snowed by these thieves.Just a thought…
BillI have no problem with those who deliver the goods, just too many who deliver too little for the money, or take a hefty percentage of the money for “operating capital’ up to the tune of 85 to 90%. If I spend a buck on helping people, i don’t want to find out that only a small percentage actually got where it was supposed to go. I understand that there are costs to running an organization, even a charity or relief organization, but there is a point where they should look at themselves. If there were anyone I trusted to take my cash and provide food, water, clothing and shelter, and use a good percentage for it, I would donate as freely as I could.
The best way to do this is to go to one of the charity monitoring sires like Charity Navigator and checking the ratings, not listening to the commercials.
just a thought…
Bill
