Do you think that the opposite is true then?Cielingcat wrote:Wow, that guy is a colossal douchebag. Seriously, that was like the very essence of "I am an overentitled white American douchebag."
I mean seriously, he even did the whole "the poor are breeding!!!1!" thing. It's like he read a book on how to be an asshole in the face of tragedy, and then did everything the book told him to do.
Do you think that if someone started building his home on a railway track, we should help and support him every time it gets destroyed?
It is possible for people to live in Haiti. But you'd need a real government, actual building safety codes, an economy that isn't based largely on donations and crime, and a cleaning up of all the various bits of "voodoo" culture and various other religious influences.
Until you can fix most of that, giving unconditional aid to Haiti isn't going to achieve shit. Hell, unless you give a couple of million dollars, most people aren't even going to see a cent of your aid. Something like 75 percent of the aid money goes straight to government coffers, where it can be used on booze, parties and luxuries for government officials.