ANGRY MINUTE #0026: Haitian Relief
I don’t understand our government or the people who stand by and agree with some of the most inept policies I have ever seen. And I know this article may paint me as a badguy (or a douchebag) yet I still will write it because it is what I believe.
I first want to start off by saying I feel for all those affected by the tragic 7.0 earthquake that rocked the island of Haiti last week. Thousands have died, are homeless, and have suffered severely from this tragedy. I pray to the FSM for their safety and hope that they may rebuild and move on past this horror.
But why in the BLUE HELL is our government handing out dollars like we print them (this is suppose to be an ironic statement as our government does print the money)? Where the FRAK are we getting all this money?
The government is meant to RUN THE FRAKING COUNTRY! You know, the one called USA?!?! The USA who has thousands starving on its own shores?!?! The USA who is throwing people out of there homes, forcing them onto the streets?!?! The USA that is Trillions (that’s with a T) of dollars in debt?!?! Yeah, that USA!
It sounds heartless but I have always been raised to take care of myself, and the United States of American is NOT even doing that! No, instead our government feels like it can save the world. Like it needs to protect everyone.
We are NOT the world’s protectors.
Now I’m all for private donors (like Wyclef and Sandra Bullock) donating relief to the island, but the USA does not have the money to go out and bail out another country. This is totally irresponsible!
Haiti is its own country, if it wanted our help they would be part of the United States of America and they would pay taxes and contribute to the melting pot called USA. Our government should only be helping AMERICANS, if others want or need our help I’m sure we can come to an agreement on a loan OR private donors can donate. The government should NOT be a private donor because WE ARE NOT PRIVATE! We need to stop bailing people out and let people learn to help themselves.
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POSTANGER:
American can take care of everyone else’s problems once we take care of our own. When we don’t have starving children within our own borders, when we don’t have homeless, when we become the great country we are suppose to be… then and ONLY then will I say we can help other I need. What will happen when we are in need? Oh wait… we ARE in need of help. Trillions of Dollars in need! Somebody help!!!!!!
US Government needs to learn its role. Leave private donations to the private donors.
I agree!
I agree with you in large part as we do tend to give way too much to other countries when they suffer catastrophe……BUT Haiti is slightly a different story.
It is due to the Haitian Revolution that Napolean agreed to sell Lousiana the the territory that the French(Napolean Bonaparte) owned in America to America(Thomas Jefferson President at the time. Napolean made a decision to give up on his French expansion into the new world because he was unable to quelch the uprising in Haiti, in turn this made him sell Louisiana to us..meaning the United States and in turn this is how we earned the midwest and further states west of the Mississippi River.
So I largely agree with your assumption that we spend way to much of our time and OUR money(taxpayers) assisting other governments with their research, relief efforts,homelessness etc. Take care of home first should be something our government truly learns to do and not intervening in other countries affiars, elections etc.
The reason why Haiti is going to get our assistance is due to the fact that they assisted our country in being what it is today.