Haiti was a hell hole BEFORE the earthquake. If past catastrophes are any guide, they've got 3-4 days to get set up with security on the ground to get the job organized and functioning. After that, the shock wears off and the bad guys who've been living off the population for the last 20 years will start coming out of the woodwork demanding 'their share' before anything gets done for the rest of the people.

The Haiti situation must be awful for the conservatives. I mean, our tax dollars will be going to help foreigners rather than torture them??? Wow!

Highlander, You're a real jerk, though I'm sure you already know that. People in Haiti are dying and all you care about is making a mocking accusation against conservatives.

It says much about you and nothing about conservatives.

Conservatives have always been generous with charity in disaster situations. And they have been much more generous with their OWN money than liberals who think it's the governments job.

So Highlander, how do you explain G W Bush spending more to prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa than his predecessor Billy Bob. Does this mean Bill Bob HATED AFRICANS?

Do us all a favor, shove your head up your ass and leave it there. You'll be more comfortable that way.

"Haiti was a hell hole BEFORE the earthquake"
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Yup and it will continue to be a hell after it, be a great place to move the gitmo folks, think we could get a square mile or two for all the billion we have spend and I'm sure will spend on this. Just saying.

highlander "The Haiti situation must be awful for the conservatives. I mean, our tax dollars will be going to help foreigners rather than torture them???"

Yeah "terrible" isn't a hole.

But puzzle me this, Slick Willie Clinton poured so much taxpayer cash in [eight years] into Haiti they could have floated the place as if were a cruise ship.

You tell me what good did it do?

Hell look up slick willie's cash for guns program in Haiti, that did nothing but take weapons from the poor who used them to protect themselves from thugs and drug runners, shortly thereafter the place was racked with more violence than before to the point tht UN had to send in thousands of "peacekeepers."

And BTW, there was 9,000 of those UN troops on the ground the DAY BEFORE the quake have you seen any of them on any TV channel since?

And to add to GarandFan's point who was it that was first on the scene after the Sumatra quake?

It was that "evil rethuglian" Bush who dispatched a carrier and all its support ships to the LARGEST MUSLIM country in the world.

For nearly two weeks the US and it's Navy and Marines were the ONLY gov or private group that could get anything done there.

To make this long story shorter, FOAD highlander.

If my memory serves, I seem to recall dire predictions of utter chaos and rampant disease are the normative predictions at about this stage of most significant disasters. I can not recall any coverage of this actually happening in the past 50 years or so, however.

Granted Haiti may indeed be an exception. I pray otherwise and am confident the aid provided will be sufficient to the need.

Thanks for the appeal to give for much will be needed regardless.

God's strength to all that suffer in this life!
God's blessing to all that give regardless of their own plight.

Thanks for the information on finding reputable charities. We want to help, but have been concerned about the money actually getting where it is intended.

Olaf's Hammer needed aisle two.

If I may, a suggestion: Christian Aid Ministries (with 20 years in Haiti...and according to Charity Navigator, 98.7% goes to program expenses!)