| Haiti: Gimme gimme gimme a break. |
Subject: Haiti: Gimme gimme gimme a break. by CentralCoaster on 2010/1/25 19:50:14 Am I the only one seeing this? Call me unsympathetic, but I find this rationale offensive that God took a dump on Haiti and the world is now expected to come to the rescue. And the more cash that goes in, the more the hand comes out. I feel the main problem is Haiti was a desperate situation to begin with, so it's difficult to even establish any sort of benchmark for what a "rebuilt" Haiti looks like. What are the expectations here? It's a blank check. Does it go on until the common public and media's attention span fades? Or until all the shantytowns are replaced with energy efficient and seismically reinforced public housing? "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." --James Madison, while voting against lending aid to Haitian refugees, 1794 |
