Are you just as sickened by all this "hope for haiti" stuff as I am?

Question

Where was there anything like this for the victims of Katrina, Charlie, Hugo, Rita, the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, or the 1946 Aleutian Islands Earthquake? People are still suffering!!!!!!

Answer 1

Yes, the earthquake in Haiti was terrible, but so were OUR own earthquakes and hurricanes. I didn't see the world giving us a helping hand. I lived through several bad earthquakes in California, but, instead of wandering around like a lost sheep, we all helped one another. Those people in Haiti have structure whatsoever, no real government to guide them. I wouldn't care so much but, they have catastophies before, and the USA and other countries have helped them out, time and time again. It really pXXXXs me off when these guys start getting angry at US when we can't get supplies to them fast enough. And something else that makes me mad, what about the Dominican Republic? THEY were only a few miles from the epicenter! Nobody has mentioned them! It really amazes me to see all the food, medical supplies being flown into that country, when we have people right here in our own backyard, without jobs or hope. Don't you think we should be taking care of our own first?? .

Answer 2

Wow! Sickened by an effort to help alleviate the suffering of other human beings? How sad for you. By the way, you might want to do a bit of research. Ever hear of the Concert for Bangladesh, Band Aid, U.S.A. for Africa, Live Aid, Live 8, Concert For Katrina, Concert for New York City...I could go on but I sense that you're beyond reason or facts.



P.S. The Northridge quake???Are you serious? Lived through it and still live in L.A. Apart from the fifty odd families that lost a loved one, our "suffering" ending about fifteen years ago. Even then, it was minuscule compare to what's happening in Haiti.

Answer 3

No, I'm not. I am happy we're getting it right after 8 years of ineptitude. Hurricane Katrina killed my father and destroyed my childhood home. If not for the artistic community putting on concerts, I doubt FEMA would have ever arrived. The anger still lingers within. My mother finally returned FEMA's checks and told them to leave her alone.



Had our government reacted this quickly to Katrina, I may not have had to empty my bank accounts relocating family members to where I live in Mississippi. Yes, the money was eventually returned. So I am fine with any disaster aid. I did a lot of work with the entertainment community to help after Northridge and the Tsunami.

Answer 4

Got a few reasons actually:

1) Compared to all the situations you've mentioned (especially the Northridge quake, I was in that and the death toll was small, the rebuilding effort fast), Haiti is a crisis of epic proportions. Even Katrina only killed a tenth of the total number of people that have died in Haiti already, not to mention the people who will die as a result of medicinal deficits.

2) Most of these have been dealt with.

3) Even if many of them haven't, Haiti's issue is much more of a problem right now than any of them. If you want to attack politicians for not dealing with these, do so after the effort in Haiti is done.



So no, I'm not "sick" of the Haiti effort. I think it's amazing that anyone would be "sick" of an effort to save literally hundreds of thousands of people in a country that's at the brink of total collapse.

Answer 5

I think it borders on becoming a constant negative influence when every death, dismemberment, and human suffering plays out like a Series on a realtiy television show: I wouldn't be surprised if they don't create one just for this tragedy.....something like - "Hell in Haiti". At some point, it becomes over-kill. People know and understand the horror - and many are providing resources to help. Let's focus on that.

Answer 6

Yes -- nor was there anything done for the thousand of victims of the Indonesian Tsunami. It is both pathetic & sickening the way relief workers in Haiti are being shot, assaulted and robbed + the goods that are being delivered are stolen from the needy by gun toting marauding animals.



You must have a death wish if you to want to be a rescue worker in Haiti.

Answer 7

The Democrats finally were given their change. i don't think of it replaced into the change they needed nonetheless. Even the Democrats in Congress are starting up to hate Obama, as is the middle East. That speech in Cairo did honestly no longer some thing.

Answer 8

No, I'm not. The devestation is on a more massive scale than any other one of these disasters, and the need is MUCH MUCH greater. I hope Americans don't get Haiti aid fatigue.

Answer 9

200,000 people are dead in Haiti. Those other disasters can't even compare in numbers. Haiti is also incapable of rebuilding itself and needs help from the global community.

Answer 10

Yes, Katrina had one and so did the Tsunami in Indonesia.



Don't remember the other ones.

Answer 11

This is a bit bigger than those were.

They know they have at least 200,000 people dead and that a lot of the bodies will never be recovered from the rubble.



There will be a lot of people suffering for a very long time with this one.

Answer 12

Yes, especially when there is no hope for Haiti. We will fund them as we have on many occasions and they will still be the diseased, uneducated, hopeless people that they've always been. That's their own fault, not ours.

Answer 13

Are you blind? The government wants you to send your money OUT of the country. They dont care if its reshuffled inside the country as in aid to Katrina victims.

Answer 14

It will be the same for Haiti, most of the money will sale into the wind, and movie stars, tv announcers, and all other celebs, fire fighters etc, will get their faces on tv. you want good advice keep your money in your pocket.

Answer 15

Yes i am haiti is filled with malitias and gangs that are filled mainly in porta prince going all after there crap pressident

Answer 16

No. There was all kinds of help for Katrina victims. They were sent to shelters all over the country. I volunteered at one of them and they were treated very well.

Answer 17

Yes, it's all trendy crap. Those celebrities get press for doing it.

Answer 18

Yes I am that is why I turned off my television.

Answer 19

They live on a fault line, what do you expect?