Help Haiti
January 15th, 2010 at 8:11 am by Preston Taylor HolmesOn a good day, the country of Haiti is a little glimpse of what the tropical areas of hell might be like. After the earthquake, it’s unimaginable.
Those poor people have nothing, and now they have lost even that. Pray for them.
The Anchoress has a massive round-up of ways to help.
I’ve also put up a link in the sidebar to World Vision, one of my preferred charities with their hands already at work down there. There are many worthy ways to help, so do what you can wherever you feel will do the most good.
January 14th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
That Doc Zero essay linked up by the Anchoress is a great piece and unfortunately there are too many people in this country who just don’t get it.
January 14th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Link: http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/01/13/our-duty-to-mankind/
This is so dead on:
“Mankind cannot afford to watch America slide into a socialist coma. It cannot endure the voice of freedom fading into a whisper. Those unemployed people sending their bottom dollar to help the people of Haiti would do more if they could. They don’t want to be unemployed. Businesses don’t want to lay people off. A nation with our incredible resources and human capital has no end of work to do. High unemployment means we see a future in which endeavor is pointless, and risk is foolish… but only through enterprise and risk can we create the fabulous wealth that turns the love of a noble people into waves of food and medicine, to fill the wounds of the world.”
The more they attack us, the less we can do to lift up the world’s victims.
January 14th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
When we give aid to people – it’s usually with strings. Stop killing those people. Be nicer to those people. When dictatorships give aid – it’s usually with chains.
We show up with $250 Million amnesiac dollars, a naval carrier and helicopters dropping in food and a year later the people are chanting ‘Death to America’. Castro shows up with a case of dirty water and a couple of Home Health Aides and they’re still singing his praises twenty years later.
So please bless the Christians and Jews of the world of give so unselfishly and who are themselves blessed with short memories. That the people you help today curse your name for having it to give tomorrow.
Like Charity Navigator shows the pie charts of how relief organizations spend their money, the government that passed the hat in advance out of your weekly tax withholdings grabs another handful for itself before generously donating in your name and some politician’s photo-op.
I know it’s not a popular thing to say and it’s too soon and hopelessly cynical. I say it in hope of being proven wrong one day.
Example from just a moment ago from everyone’s favorite Accomplice Press reporterette Jennifer Loven:
Somewhere along the way, poor Jennifer and the Magical One forgot that Haiti is not a member of the United States, a US territory or a protectorate. Ineffective response. New Orleans is a bowl. Are we currently prepared to launch an amphibious rescue of an entire city when people chose to stay in harm’s way? Sounds like politicizing it to me.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:30 am
I was watching Fox News this morning and I almost fell off my couch upon seeing a commercial asking for donations to the UN fund for Haiti…
Like I would give one freakin’ dime to the UN…ever. How much money will actually go to help Haitians?
I just donated to Samaritan’s Purse. They account for every dollar they collect…