We gave $ to help Haiti. Where'd that money go ?
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Sunday, October 6, 2024 00:01
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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Kwicko: America is wasteful and inefficient and takes inadvisable actions
AURaptor: foreign "aid" there is corrupt and not interested in helping Haiti. What they want to do it open up more labour to exploit, increase Haitian debt, and also take advantage of offshore oil reserves. I think that covers it.
But, I do commend you for taking notice and pushing it back into our attention.
^ This.
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Originally posted by Bytemite:
AURaptor: foreign "aid" there is corrupt and not interested in helping Haiti. What they want to do it open up more labour to exploit, increase Haitian debt, and also take advantage of offshore oil reserves. I think that covers it.
But, I do commend you for taking notice and pushing it back into our attention.
NGO's are corrupt. They use most of their $ to lavish themselves, staying in the top hotels, dining in 4 star restaurants, while literally across the street, folks they're suppose to be helping are lucky to have a pot of rice and a 8oz cup of water for dinner. But I don't get where you come off saying they want to exploit these people, more than they already have, for labor. There IS no work. NOTHING is going on. The people would LOVE to be exploited, if that meant having a job to go to and making some of their own money. Hell yeah, they'd be all in on that, but that's simply not happening. How these folks haven't rioted is beyond me. Maybe their spirit has been broken, I don't know. But 2 years after the quake, the 'recovery' is insanely slow. The 'aid' people are dragging this out, because they have all that $ from our donations, and they're just sitting on it, as a form of welfare for themselves.
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That's a pretty good argument for not giving to charity. Which is funny, because "libertarians" are the ones who keep telling us that charities will take care of the poor, and that no government help is ever needed.
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
That's a pretty good argument for not giving to charity. Which is funny, because "libertarians" are the ones who keep telling us that charities will take care of the poor, and that no government help is ever needed.
It's a good argument for a lot of things.
For being able to fend for oneself, is one.
Being careful in who you donate your time and $, is another.
Following up on how organizations ( and yes, govts ) use our money.
And what can happen when no one is held accountable. We saw it with the UN, in the Oil for Food scam. And we see it in local, state and the federal govt. Private or public, makes no real difference.
Libertarians, like everyone else who donates, expected that $ to be used to buy, deliver and distribute food, water, shelter and medical supplies, as well as some of the volunteers who went to Haiti to help them dig out. What we didn't expect was the $ to go directly into a series of bank accounts, to just sit there idly, only to be skimmed off the top by execs of these NGOs drawing huge checks, staying in fancy hotels, dining in the finest restaurants, while 10's of thousands of folks starved.
How this simple point escapes you, is a mystery. ( no, not really )
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But I don't get where you come off saying they want to exploit these people, more than they already have, for labor.
Where I come off?
Historical precedence. Which generally informs the present.
I'm not sure what's so offensive about this statement.
If there haven't been foreign interests who have begun a campaign of exploitation, which I would be very surprised because I doubt the previous exploitation ever STOPPED, then there will be.
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67 average IQ. 68 qualifies as mentally retarded
and then you have Clinton corrupt conspiracy involved
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