Where are the cash rich arab countries? How about the chinese? Its just amazing that US is the one that always helps the most. Great read.... http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/01/19/christian-whiton-haiti-obama-aid-corruption/
Haiti needs help now, it is good that USA can do something. However, charity begins at home. What is America going to the jobless going homeless? When?
I think the original poster was comparing contributions to Haiti by Americans to contributions to Katrina by Americans. Contributions to Haiti came when America was at it's weakest while Katrina came at a time when the economy was stronger and people had more to give. (But still, much more has been raised for Haiti compared to Katrina.) In any case, I am not surprised. We'll send them aid so that they can eventually die of something else, probably starvation. In fact, we are all terminal. All of us here are on the path to death by old age (unless something else does not kill us sooner) and very few people care. Billions could be saved -- in economic benefits, not just health benefits / lives, by investing an ways to keep people healthier longer: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0330/034-on-my-mind.html http://www.grg.org/resources/TheScientist.htm But there is absolutely no lobbying or support to do so. I find it ironic that we are individually all condemned to die. But as a society, we fight against the forces of natural selection to preserve groups of people and animals who might otherwise not be here.
$10 goes a long way to Haiti....if you use it IN Haiti. Otherwise, it goes to the Red Cross here...which we all tend to know how much % donations end up covering administrative costs for these types of places... absolute joke.
I am sick and tired of the fact that USA has money for literally everything except the American people money for wars money for Israel money for international help money for Goldman Sachs money for everything except the US citizen, middle class or poor
People like you who are bitching about not receiving government money are also the first to bitch when the government gives out money.