It’s a good thing that when our government piously gives our money to the Third World, it is done only as a gesture of political correctness, not to accomplish any actual good. Otherwise I would have to say we have been getting burned:
ZitatNearly five years after a 7.0 magnitude quake killed hundreds of thousands of its citizens, Haiti’s recovery efforts remain muddled and confused, with the whereabouts of the billions of dollars pledged by the international community an apparent mystery to the country’s leaders.
“We don’t know where the money has gone,” Raymond Joseph, former ambassador of Haiti to the U.S., said Friday in an interview on Bloomberg’s “Market Makers.”
In 2010, Haiti was rocked by a deadly earthquake that claimed the lives of between 200,000 and 300,000 people. In response to the tragedy, the international community pledged an estimated nine billion dollars in foreign aid to help Haiti’s recovery efforts.
However, according to Joseph, much of the pledged cash never made it to Haiti. And the money that did make it to Haiti has mysteriously disappeared.
It appears that much of this money was misdirected after coming under the control of Bill & Shrillary Clinton. But you could dump any amount of cash on Haiti without noticeably improving the condition of the inhabitants.
ZitatIt appears that much of this money was misdirected after coming under the control of Bill & Shrillary Clinton.
Well then, there should not be even the slightest hint of impropriety here, not with these two giants of unimpeachable moral character being in charge.
"The Clinton Foundation is facing protests due to its mismanagement of resources for the post-earthquake recovery efforts of Haiti.
Five years after a disastrous earthquake ripped through the small island nation, disturbing reports of a lack of progress in the country’s recovery have angered many Haitian Americans.
The country is still in ruin. Only 900 homes have been built in the last five years even though over $10 billion was donated from the international community to help rebuild Haiti.
The Clinton Foundation, which led fundraising efforts for the recovery, has been the focus of many protests.
One protester from Harlem said, “These people – they are still living in very difficult conditions, living in tents, while Bill Clinton and his cronies are wasting this money.”
Complaints include contracts being awarded to non-Haitian companies, the capital’s main hospital still not being complete, and the rise of Cholera.
Referring to the handling of the rebuilding process, Haitian American radio station host Ricot Dupuy said, “So much inconsistencies, so much irregularity.”
Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #6"The Clinton Foundation is facing protests due to its mismanagement of resources for the post-earthquake recovery efforts of Haiti.
Five years after a disastrous earthquake ripped through the small island nation, disturbing reports of a lack of progress in the country’s recovery have angered many Haitian Americans.
The country is still in ruin. Only 900 homes have been built in the last five years even though over $10 billion was donated from the international community to help rebuild Haiti.
The Clinton Foundation, which led fundraising efforts for the recovery, has been the focus of many protests.
One protester from Harlem said, “These people – they are still living in very difficult conditions, living in tents, while Bill Clinton and his cronies are wasting this money.”
Complaints include contracts being awarded to non-Haitian companies, the capital’s main hospital still not being complete, and the rise of Cholera.
Referring to the handling of the rebuilding process, Haitian American radio station host Ricot Dupuy said, “So much inconsistencies, so much irregularity.”
Following the earthquake, the only contribution to Haiti by the U.N. and various connected 'charities' is that the UN introduced cholera as the result of poor sanitation:
The U.N. Caused Haiti's Cholera Epidemic. Now the Obama Administration Is Fighting the Victims. The death toll is nearly double the Ebola outbreak October 24, 2014
Four years ago this month a battalion of United Nations soldiers, fresh from a cholera outbreak in Nepal, allowed their sewage to flow into Haiti’s biggest river and, scientists say, sparked the deadliest acute epidemic of the century. An estimated 9,000 people have died—nearly double the death toll of the current Ebola outbreak—and an estimated 700,000 people have been infected. On Thursday, embattled victims finally got a day in court. What was most remarkable about the hearing in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan was not the lawyers’ arguments or Judge J. Paul Oetken’s pointed questions, but who was doing the arguing. The opposition to the thousands of Haitian cholera victims did not come from the U.N., which did not send a representative, but the United States government.
When cholera erupted in October 2010, responders and most of the international media assumed it was another in Haiti’s cycle of tragedies, a result of the magnitude-7.0 earthquake nine months before. That was way off. There had never been a documented case of cholera in Haiti before.
I heard a NY politician (didn't catch the name, but it sounded like some guy with a Caribbean accent) say that these protestors are misguided, that the Clintons are above reproach..... lol