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| Topic Started: Jan 23 2010, 04:39 PM (87 Views) | |
| gijoe071681 | Jan 23 2010, 04:39 PM Post #1 |
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Maybe I just don't get it. I understand that Haiti is in dire straits right now and for that I am sorry. I however just do not understand why the U.S. is rallying around ad doing so much for a foreign country. When we have natural disasters here I never hear about some other country coming to our aid. There are people all over the radio the tv and now even over on Hisstank asking us to give money and help out. Well the problem I have with this is why are we helping out somewhere else when we can't even get it straight here? We are on the brink of complete economic failure and we are expected to help in another country. There are celebrities putting on events for this and I can't help but wonder wheres the event for the family that lost their house or the laid off worker or whenever theres an earthquake over in Cali. Why are the other countries at the forefront of what needs to be done? Why can we not get ourselves together first and then worry about everyone else? Like I said maybe I just don't get it. |
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| WWCD | Jan 24 2010, 09:05 PM Post #2 |
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I was a part of the Cuban/haitian rescue ops the Navy and Coast Guard conducted back in the 90s, and I didn't get it then, either. You're not alone, man: I am all for helping out my fellow man, but we need to start taking care of our own before we jump into someone else's fire. -Jim |
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| Codename: Mac | Jan 25 2010, 10:49 AM Post #3 |
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I'm on that bandwagon, too. Jesus made it clear that meeting the needs of the poor and helpless is priority one...something, sadly, most Christians fail miserably at...but he first saw to the needs in his own back yard...so to speak. In Sunday school the teens were talking about movie grosses and how it seems wrong for a movie to make that much and for people to have so much money when most of the world's population lives in poverty. You know, if people who made much more than they actually need would quit blowing it on 25 Ferarri's and 15 beach houses and instead gave it to the poor... And on the flip side of that...even if regular people would stop living beyond their means and do something about our socio-economic climate...imagine the impact. My big beef with all this "help Haiti" stuff is that most of these high profile people who are involved seem to be like "Hey look what I'm doing...I need to be televised on every network on the world so you know how concerned I am." Maybe I'm cynical, but you know stars and companies who are doing these benefits are going to have soaring sales as a result and they know it. There's always a way to capitalize. I know some like U2/Bono preach a strong message on behalf of needy people and seem to live it out personally. But, really, where are all these super rich famous people when there's not a hugely publicized disaster? *steps down from her soapbox* |
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| Dominic Guglieme | Jan 25 2010, 03:28 PM Post #4 |
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One of the arguements for helping Haiti is that the US helped to hobble the country at its birth 200+ years ago. I do not agree with this idea, but it is a case for helping Haiti. The problem with this idea is that plenty of other countries, (including this one), were hobbled at the beginning. (Do we collect money from the UK? If anything, we have saved them at least once.) And, the expectation of help should be directed as much, if not more, towards France. There are practical reasons to help Haiti. The more stable the country is, the fewer immigrants and refugees will go to the US. And, there is a sizable, (read: politically important), Haitian population in the US. The celebrity motivation is pretty obvious. Disaster relief fund-raising is a cheap, easy and marketable way for celebrities to get their names out there and boost their recognizability. Dom -and Haiti is hardly even the mosxt nettlesome problem we face. |
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