Evil, Capitalistic, Bigoted America Comes to Haiti's Assistance!

[Christians4LessGvt]

Evil, Capitalistic, Bigoted America Comes to Haiti's Assistance

by Doug Giles
 
Thursday morning I was watching Fox & Friends to see what was going down in the aftermath of the apocalyptic earthquake that rocked Haiti. As I sat there in my shorts drinking my coffee, I was gobsmacked as I viewed the insane carnage inflicted by the 7.0 death-dealer that crushed that little nation seven hundred miles from my Miami bunker.

As the horrendous before and after satellite images of a city flattened by mother nature rolled, I became prouder and prouder of how the U.S., our magnificent military, and a stack of high-quality Christian organizations are flying into high gear with millions of dollars and thousands of people to sacrificially help as in risk their lives to do whatever they can to assist during such unimaginable suffering.

Basking in the warm glow of the American spirit in such a tragic event, I started getting kinda, sorta ticked off regarding how the Lefties repeatedly pitch our nation as an evil, bigoted, greedy, capitalistic, militarily-oppressive regime that loves to squish the underdogs.

Ya know, in reality as in a blistering, natural disaster reality one always finds that it is America that rocks the hardest in regard to real relief. We blow away other nations. Yep, whether it is a tsunami or an earthquake, you can count on evil, mean, nasty, bigoted, murderous, Christian American men and women to be the first responders to offer no-BS help in time of need.

It?ll be interesting to see how many (and at what level) Muslim organizations and nations, atheist organizations, Code Pink, PETA punks, Chavez and Castro, GLSEN, euro-socialist dillweeds, Green Peace, and Avatar's woodsy blue people pony up and help the Haitians through their hellish nightmare. I wonder if they?ll even come close to our American Judeo-Christian largesse?

It's also really interesting to me how mean, white America runs to relieve a city that's 99.9% black without blinking. At least we're not going around like Reid, Biden and Byrd and calling them "clean Negroes" who can turn their black slang on and off.

This just in! A buddy of mine Facebooked me a moment ago about how a couple of his evil Christian friends just got back from a 10-day missions trip to Haiti and are trying to head back. He continued to say that it is, no doubt, just a show they're putting on to advance the conservative agenda and subvert the Religion of Peace.

In addition, my co-host on ClashRadio.com, Steve Pauwels sent me this note on Friday regarding his Marine son Sam saying, "We seek your prayers for our middle son, Sam, who is now awaiting his newest deployment down to Haiti". When I asked Sam how he was doing one hour ago, he said: "Fine. We just want to go." (Note; he and his unit have been back in the states for ONE MONTH after being overseas for six months). Ah, our evil wicked soldiers, eh Lefties?

You know, at the end of the day, countries and people who need true aid and who long for authentic liberty always look to the massive helping hands of the Judeo-Christian rooted, God blessed American men, women and military and not to secularists, atheists, Islamists and grimy hippies who regularly blather about how bad America is.

http://townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2010/01/16/evil,_capitalistic,_bigoted_america_comes_to_haiti%E2%80%99s_assistance?page=full
 

[Plane]

A friend of mine has a son in the Navy.

Orders came for him to prepare to deploy to Hati , then a day later he was told to standby remaining ready.

Seems as if  there is a bottleneck in the flow of assistance , things in Hati are so broken up that we can't land as many Helicopters as we intended to send.

[Plane]

Aid is pouring into Haiti as officials assess the magnitude of what one U.S. general calls "a disaster of epic proportions." But logistical bottlenecks are keeping much of the aid from reaching stricken people in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, or in surrounding areas that were just as hard-hit. Even when aid was delivered, there was not yet enough security in place to prevent chaotic scuffles over water and food.
http://www.npr.org/

[sirs]

Isn't Cuba, that bastian of healthcare right next door?  Surely they've sent tons of aide and healthcare related items, such as doctors & medicines, right?  1st ones on scene, right??

And surely the Dominican Republic has sent scores of aide and assistance, that would rival any other small country, right?

And of course, the beacons of religious & peaceful virtue, located all around the Middle East, such as Iran, have been consistently flying in aide and resources, right?

[Plane]

Isn't Cuba, that bastian of healthcare right next door?  Surely they've sent tons of aide and healthcare related items, such as doctors & medicines, right?  1st ones on scene, right??

And surely the Dominican Republic has sent scores of aide and assistance, that would rival any other small country, right?

And of course, the beacons of religious & peaceful virtue, located all around the Middle East, such as Iran, have been consistently flying in aide and resources, right?

It is an international effort , lets see who gives the most and who gives the most persistantly.

[sirs]

I think we can already answer that question now.  The issue will be the effort in demonizing the "intentions".  And last I checked, Haiti had no oil fields, or pipelines, or <insert whatever the U.S. went in to take here>

And how long as the UN been involved in "helping" the country and its government to get up to speed with the rest of the globe?

[Michael Tee]

<<It is an international effort , lets see who gives the most and who gives the most persistantly.>>

The French have beaten you to it:
http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/infographe/2010/01/14/la-communaute-internationale-se-mobilise-pour-haiti_1291582_3222.html

Another article quoted in another thread indicates the Venezuelans were the first to get their planes into Haiti.  Le Monde indicates they contributed 50 rescue workers, food and medicines.  Other articles indicate a joint Russian-Venezuelan aid ship is about to depart this week for Port-au-Prince.  Again according to Le Monde, Iran has already landed 30 tonnes of aid this past Saturday and the World Bank and IMF have each pledged $100 million in reconstruction financing.

The U.S., as befits the world's wealthiest nation, is way out in front of the others in dollars, but of course its $100 million is pitiful compared to the $3 trillion dollars it was willing to expend on the invasion and subjugation of oil-rich Iraq; on a per-capita basis, it must surely lag behind some of the European donors, specifically Denmark and Holland, possibly Norway as well.

Although not mentioned in Le Monde's summary of donors, Cuba did contribute, as per my following post.

[Michael Tee]

Further to my last post, Murray Fromson's article in Hufpo relates to the Cuban contribution to the Haitian earthquake relief effort.

The Cubans were already on the ground in Haiti, helping the people BEFORE the quake struck, particularly in the medical field, so the overall Cuban aid effort is a combination of pre-existing people-to-people aid and post-quake disaster relief - -

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/murray-fromson/cubas-rescue-effort-in-ha_b_426631.html

Americans are so full of themselves that it's comical.  Just as they won WWII all by themselves, so too they and they alone are the main sources of earthquake relief to poor suffering Haiti.

Get over yourselves, people - - whatever good you do in Haiti is vastly overbalanced by the harm you do all over the world.  The number of lives you save in Haiti doesn't even begin to match the number of lives you have brutally taken in your wars, invasions and subversions world-wide, let alone the number of lives ruined by the crippling and painful injuries left by your fascist war machine on the bodies of innocent third world victims.

[BT]

Does it really matter who provides how much aid or does it matter that aid is given.

This is not a subject worthy of politicizing.

[Amianthus]

The U.S., as befits the world's wealthiest nation, is way out in front of the others in dollars, but of course its $100 million is pitiful compared to the $3 trillion dollars it was willing to expend on the invasion and subjugation of oil-rich Iraq; on a per-capita basis, it must surely lag behind some of the European donors, specifically Denmark and Holland, possibly Norway as well.

Erm, that $100M is from the US Government only. The American Red Cross alone has already raised more than that from the private side (was over $103M reported by CNN this morning, with $13M of it coming via cell phone).

[Michael Tee]

Forget per capita, if you take the entire U.S. contribution, public and private, as a percentage of GDP, you probably lag behind about half of the European donors (wild guess admittedly, but the absence of any MSM comparisons with other countries on any other basis but total dollars donated, leads me to it.)

[Amianthus]

The Cubans were already on the ground in Haiti, helping the people BEFORE the quake struck, particularly in the medical field, so the overall Cuban aid effort is a combination of pre-existing people-to-people aid and post-quake disaster relief - -

There were a number of American medical missions to Haiti in place before the earthquake struck as well, treating thousands of patients a year for free. And Dr. Sanjay Gupta arrived with a medical team less than 24 hrs after the earthquake struck.

[sirs]

Perhaps Tee's issue isn't so much the massive amount of aide and assistance we're doing voluntarily as a country, but the lack of what the Government is mandating that we do

Just a guess, but the absence of any objective contribution comparisons, on any basis, leads me to it

[Amianthus]

Forget per capita, if you take the entire U.S. contribution, public and private, as a percentage of GDP, you probably lag behind about half of the European donors (wild guess admittedly, but the absence of any MSM comparisons with other countries on any other basis but total dollars donated, leads me to it.)

Well, if it follows the same pattern as the tsunami, American private donations will far outstrip any other countries donations. While other countries *public* donations were as large, the private donations were paltry in comparison. Americans typically donate privately many times what the country donates publicly. Unfortunately, most comparisons in the past have only compared the per capita or % of GDP of the public funds contributed, ignoring the private donations which usually are not totaled for several months. IIRC, the total contributions from the US for the tsunami was something on the order of 5 times the total contributions from the next largest contributor Japan - but it was widely reported around that time that the US only "matched" Japan, because the contributions from the public purse were the same.

[Rich]

Had Obama screwed this up like he did the fruit of the boom bomber, I'd have been all over him. In this case there isn't much to complain about. But wait, there will be.