After only two days, I am so damn tired of hearing about Haiti I want to rip my ears off my head with a pair of pliers.
Now, I am very sorry that the earth decided to crack apart under this asshole of the planet, but why is this America’s problem?
I live in one of the most economically hard hit places in the United States, (the western mountains of North Carolina) and sitting here where several major industries have packed up to go to cheaper places to operate outside the country, leaving 14% unemployment, I find it hard to justify sending money and resources to Haiti as I watch my neighbors freeze and starve and commit suicide at one of the highest rates in the nation.
It never fails that when some natural disaster hits someplace in the world, America, in spite of the bad shape we are in, a has to ride in on their crippled white horse and play the savior.
Hell, we can’t even take care of our own when a disaster hits (Katrina anyone?) but we think we can save the poor third-worlders.
If Americans want to donate personally fine, great, wonderful, but we do not need to go to the expense of sending down our overworked military on body retrieval, where they could catch who knows what kind if disease and be put on such disgusting duty. Neither do we need to send the money that needs to be sent to impoverished states and communities to save the lives of Americans.
Sometimes bad, but natural, things happen and thousands of people die. This is how nature thins the herd. If the country hasn’t advanced enough to survive a particular disaster then natural selection kicks in and the weak die off. That’s the way of the world. But nowhere is it written that America has to run to the rescue.
I tell you what, here’s a compromise; Take all the American troops who are in Iraq and Afghanistan and let them finish their tours in Haiti clearing rubble and bodies. They can redirect all the food and medical aid and the money being sent to those countries to Haiti. The people who want our help (Haitians) will get it and the people who don’t want our help (Iraqis/Afghanis) can fuck themselves.
