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Originally Posted by island911
It IS so much more chic to bemoan over the tragedy de jour.
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Dude you nailed it.
I feel moved to rant:
Whenever a big tragedy like this occurs all the pretty people come out of the woodwork talking about lofty ideals whilst simultaneously trying to guilt everyone into donating our hard earned money
for a band aid solution at the expense of all our own domestic problems....
problems that might actually be fixable (unlike Haiti which is fundamentally fked). They offer no real long term plans, ever. They just say "give, give, give!" All the while putting virtually zero thought into the long term picture. Every dime we spend in Haiti is completely wasted as long as it's a spithole tinpot dictatorship. That Westerners can even vacation there just mere kilometers from some of the most squalid filth on earth is truly mind boggling to me.
We can't even deny that we don't know what our dollars/pounds/euros are going to support...it's right in your face if you bother to open your eyes at all.
Truthfully...and i say this with 100% sincerity...if Obama wanted to
actually help Haiti, i mean really help it, he'd send the military in to topple the regime and install a representative republic there. (More of that interfering that Dottore bemoans)
I'd much rather spend $10 billion blowing the hell out of it, completely rebuilding it, and totally replacing the utterly corrupt gov't (a la Operation Just Cause) then what we are doing now. What we're doing now will entail throwing a billion or so at the problem
-getting all kinds of great photo ops for generals, politicians and celebrities- and then forgetting the place even exists in a few weeks or a month. Or more likely, the next time some sick, twisted "progressive" musician or actor dies.
The US is so
utterly broken on every level, and it's largely because the people here are too. We're a nation of blathering idiots if (did i really just say "if"?) we think that what we are going to actually do there will in any way help the long term status quo in Haiti.
What's the point of saving someone's life who is living in hell today, so that they can just starve to death in squalor tomorrow?
To me it just seems like adding insult to injury just so some of us can feel all warm and fuzzy that they "helped."
I've been in more filthy stinkin' rat and roach infested ghettos and homes than most of you will see even if you lived 10 lifetimes. Some of you jackals wouldn't do anything but cross the street in fear if any of these people got too close to you in a US ghetto. But add in a natural disaster, and everyone starts tripping all over their dix to "help."
I must say i find the entire comedic dance quite sickening.