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Reply to "Earthquake in Haiti - when the story hits home"

David has been through way too much to have it all end in this disaster. It is another tribute to his astonishing fortunes. I'm sure he was concerned about you too Empress, knowing you would be going crazy until word about him could reach you.

I've found the whole American 'response' is kind of twisted. Like Haiti just appeared on the map. Has-been and present politicians endlessly testifying in solemn tones to the wonder and legacy of Haiti, then sending hundreds of thousands of tons of food, water and medicine to be parked on a landing strip, thinking America is so morally genius, but never a thought about the fact the political society and infrastructure in Haiti have absolutely no means whatsoever to distribute the aid in to the hands of the people actually stricken. It's bizarre. If American elites and the rest of the world actually did care about the people of Haiti they would have set in place positive programs of meaningful systematic change decades ago. Parking mountains of material booty on an airstrip in the middle of several million stricken and dieing people who can't get to it is a stark and awful example of how the rich and powerful don't have to really do anything at all about poverty and injustice.
And then the press just says, "Mounting violence prevents aid from reaching the stricken."
No.
Human idiocy does.
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