All This Money. For What?

Please be advised, some of you may experience an apoplectic reaction to this blog post. But consider what I am saying carefully before you start cursing me.

Haiti can kick rocks. In fact, all of you texting the Red Cross or Wyclef's "foundation" can stop right now. Yeah, I said it. All this money that people are sending to Haiti cannot compare to the amount of aid they have been sent over the last 10 years. Do you know that foreign aid to Haiti every year makes up almost half of their federal budget? Ask yourself, WHAT THE HELL HAVE THEY BEEN DOING WITH THAT MONEY? America alone has sent over 2.5 billion dollars to that country over the past 10 years.

Once the last orphan child has been treated (and adopted by Brangelina) and the streets have been cleared, nothing will change in Haiti--and that is my problem. Give them one year and the corruption will return; in fact it may not even take that long. All the aid money will be squandered by politicians and the poor people you see now--the ones without the second homes in other countries to escape to--all these people will be exactly where they were the day before the earthquake.

I am passed being sad for Haitians. I am now angry. Are you kidding me? There are no doctors, there was no plan, there was no local help, and the buildings were crappy even though the island is sitting on a fault line. What kind of country cannot take care of its own people? Haiti sits in an earthquake zone that people have been warning about for years and not one idiot in the entire Haitian government considered setting up a plan just in case?

If you are Haitian, after you have accounted for your family and things return to "normal" you need to hang your head in shame and ask "What the f*ck happened to our country?"

As I write this, Larry King on CNN is saluting the survivors of the earthquake for...surviving. I don't even want to get into the kind of headache that gives me. All I know is this, God/Allah/Luck/whatever saved all those people for a reason. It is now their duty and responsibility to MAKE SURE that their lives are lived to the fullest--they might want to start with getting rid of their useless leaders.

PS: Nigeria, I am sure your time is coming don't worry.