Haiti should declare itself a Wall Street bank, then the president and congress will fall over each other to give them money.

or since they have a sewerage disposal problem and the name is available they could call themselves Blackwater, murder a few dozen civilians, claim to be fanatical christians ,

So as to receive hugely lucrative no bid USA security contracts.

Sorry Haiti for the dark humor, wish I could help but our voices have been silenced by the corporate masters.

Actually Haiti has no problem murdering a few dozen citizens. Ever since the CIA kidnapped the legally elected President of Haiti, former priest Jean-Paul Aristide, and spirited him away to a random African country in the dead of night, the remnants of Duvalier's Tonton Macoute death squads have been unopposed in killing off lots of activist civilians. I wouldn't be surprised to see that the U.S.A. is paying off the death squads.

Haiti is so desperately poor in the first place because the U.S. Government turned the country into a giant death camp. Then the hurricane hit. Then the earthquake hit. Oddly enough, people died.

Now the government is faced with horrible pictures of thousands of people dying, and so it promises the American public that it will rush in and save these poor starving people. However, this noble impulse interferes with the basic idea of making Haiti a death camp. The only possible recourse is that the U.S. Government must lie through its teeth to the American public.

What kind of depraved indifference to human life can NOT disburse those funds? Where is the money collected? Is it merely going towards the sustenance of the NGOs that are doing nothing to alleviate the ample suffering there?

Haiti almost sounds like the word HADES, the legendary zone souls pass after they have left the land of the living. The squalor that so many are being faced with in that broken land is a call to the world: necessity demands acts of compassion.

What I don't understand is that a lot of money WAS collected. Why is it not being passed out to build small units, or to assist the idle in laboring on small farms?

The suffering is unimaginable. How can it be allowed to go on... while the world looks away?

Here's what SHOULD be happening in Haiti:

Those Haitians who would like to participate in this experiment should be given the opportunity to join in.

Have families/individuals join in groups of 200 and divide Haiti into quadrants of land with say, 200 acres/barrio.

Set these families up with temporary living quarters, farming equipment, water wells and basic infrastructure. Use international funds to send in experts to help these groups get settled on THEIR LAND and teach them how to divide it up for food, housing etc.

Help them elect local government representatives and have direct democracy voting on all issues affecting the barrio.

Schools and medical clinics would be provided for each barrio or there would be centrally located schools/medical clinics for maybe six barrios.

You get the idea.

This would be the best way to move Haiti from a desolate third world country into the modern world.

They could support themselves, become educated, have fresh water and take control of their lives.

The only problem with this idea is that the people would become ORGANIZED POLITICALLY and this is the LAST THING THE CORPORATE ELITE/IMF WANT.

In the meantime, we will all continue to witness capitalism at it's worst.

This morning, Amy Goodman, who returned this week to Haiti to report the progress/lack of progress in rebuilding Haiti following the earthquake, interviewed Sean Penn on Democracy Now! Currently, and for the past five or six months, Sean Penn has been living in Haiti and managing a tent city of 55,000 displaced Haitians. He had to ask for help with medications from Chavez and Venezuela rather than Obama and the U.S. He also tells a living nightmare story about trying to find medication to save a 15-year-old who had contracted diphtheria. The boy died despite efforts by Penn and the boy's father.

Today, Haiti might have more NGOs than anywhere else in the world, but the NGOs don't seem to be working together to solve the never-ending crises created by the earthquake. Where is the money? That is an excellent question.

To watch the interview, go to:

www.democracynow.org

Slick Willie and his daughter were there, so the Haitians have nothing to worry about, and Wall St is all set.

Just like Katrina ! Millons and millions of dollars lost ! No one seems to know what happened to it, and what's funny is CNN, and the other channels mentioned it a few times, but that was the end of it. The RED CROSS alone lost one billion dollars. The Director stepped down, but is that good enough ? If you worked for McDonalds and stole $100 dollars you would be in so much trouble but, when a large corporation does it, we just let it go. What has happened to the American Back Bone ? Are we spineless cowards ? Just letting these corporations steal from us, and on top of this they are stealing from poor suffering people. The days of human cruelty, and concentration camps,and phsyco leaders is as real today as it was 60 years ago.The money we sent to those poor people was enough to really get started in the rebuilding process, but instead it was stolen and devided up by crooks desguised as humanitarians.
The American people are very generous, and we pull together to help others all the time. so we are really good people ,but our leaders have gone astray, both parties are corrupt. They must be fired, and tossed to the side. they should live in a tent in Haitti or a FEMA trailer . Screw all them BAAAAAAAAAAAAASTARDS!!!!

Thanks for the excellent & informative article.

Volunteers are needed in Haiti - especially those with medical training.

http://jphro.org/