I'm not saying Americans shouldn't help but somehow Americans are sending 100 million to them but the levee system in New Orleans continues to be far from safe. The 9th Ward is still in ruins 6 years later and looks a lot like Haiti. Maybe a little more time and money on our own downtrodden peoples is in order. Haiti is a poor 3rd world country but they have been a sovereign nation just as long or longer than other Caribbean countries but somehow the country gets worse and worse. You can never really help people who aren't willing to help themselves. They have the same resources as other countries in the region but they just don't have the will or the motivation to pull themselves up out of the mud. Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and other neighbors of Haiti have somehow managed to improve their situation over the last 200 years.
A nation possessing the wealth and power of the US should be in a position to help Haiti, at least temporarily, and this is something countless Americans have already done privately, donating millions. But these same Americans might not think it’s a good idea to provide government healthcare in their own country. Does this mean they simply do not care? Americans who donated to Haiti may not believe, for instance, that we should send our military to stop the genocide in the war-torn nation of Darfur, something liberals have long advocated using the same “we can’t stand by and do nothing” logic many conservatives used with Iraq. In continuing to just stand by, does this make the US “immoral?” Will Hannity soon devote significant portions of his radio and television programs to highlighting Darfur, a country that’s “being pillaged, and people are being raped and murdered and slaughtered?”
I see what your saying, but even though we should still be helping in the United States, I still think we need to help a poor destroyed country as well. While I agree with your first paragraph, I disagree with some things as well. I think that the country will only get better if we help them to get better. They cannot do it on their because they don't have the money or means to. The United States is powerful and could really lend a helping hand to them, even if it is small. If those other surrounding countries can improve themselves then there is much hope for Haiti too.
Your second paragraph was good as well. We have donated so much to helping them, but we could still do more. We should be down there, helping as much as we can. If something like that happened to us, where our whole country was destroyed, we would want all the help we could get too. I think that no matter what there is always something more that we can do to help others. You had many great ideas for this blog topic and I think you did a great good with it!
Posted by: Aubrey Levesque | 03/21/2011 at 07:06 AM