90999 Text "Haiti": $10M Raised, But Will Be There In 90 Days?

I agree with F.

keep the money in reserves,go in after wards and rebuild the whole city...It's not like they need it all now, look at all the major corporation donations coming in..For $10 million you can probably build every family in haiti a new home,plus you will stimulate the economy...Think ahead before you start dispensing millions of dollars...

The Red Cross is contributing an initial $1 million from the International Response Fund to support the relief operation, and has opened its warehouse in Panama to provide tarps, mosquito nets and cooking sets for approximately 5,000 families.www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.94aae335470e233f6cf911df43181aa0/?vgnextoid=15c0c5a210826210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD

You realize there is 9,833,000 people in haiti. 10 million equals out to about a dollar per person. Its peanuts compared to the amount U.S. has pledged. people should stop donating to red cross and realize it rarely makes it to where it should be going. same as 9/11 relief funds

give all the money to me. so i can spend it on whatever i like and never have to work again. dont give it to those aids infested inbreds that pass aids along to each other and reproduce children like rats then cant even give them proper care. dont give those animals anything. they are unproductive and useless to society. death to all haitians , i hope the aftershock kills the rest of them. seriously, i mean it 100%. i hate those ugly animals. they only good thing they are useful is at being slaves. remember the good times when the french owned them? also, dont forget how haitians are cannibals and eat human flesh and practice voodoo black magic and pray to the devil. dont forget this !! they sacrificed their own people for the voodoo gods.   haitians are evil animals. god shall unleash his fury upon them. HALLAEUJA MY BROTHERS .   AMEN !!!!!

Mike Hock (what does Hock rhyme with, oh yeah that's why your so angry, your naming was a self-fulfulling prophecy)     

If just 5 bucks makes it there it would be a good thing, let Karma straighten out who steals the other $5. God bless all that contribute their thoughts, deeds, products, services, prayers, and cash. The suffering.... Mike get some help.

i aqree wid Mike Hock & Robert M; man F**k dhose ppl, i have nth aqainst hatians but d**n america stop bein so f****n friendly shyt we in a krisis our d**n selves we dont have time to be helpin other kountries dhat aint doin s**t for dhey self i mean wid dha earthquake n all i bet dha place still look dha same. we dont got no f***n jobs here in america oh but yu dont see nobody runnin here to help us, its alot of ppl dyin in america everyday aqain yu dont see nobody runnin here to help us i seen neiqhborhoodz worse dhen dhat s**t nobody doin s**t to help us MAN F**K DHEM PPL im not donatin s**t to nobody i qot my own f***n bills to pay nobody qivin me no money to help me. we as americanz cant help each otha y dha f**k we qon help sum poor a** kuntry wen we aint qot no money...IM MADD n yea im a yung black person n i kno i misspelled sum thinqz but i dont giva f**K wat nobody think..s**t i need money donate to my black a**

To say I am stunned, as an American, a veteran, and a human being, to read some of these remarks is an understatement of the highest order. Racism, regardless of from whom, has no place in society.  To presume that racism is a white only problem is to disregard the sense of entitlement that white society in America foisted onto the black community with affirmative action, and entitlement programs like welfare and medicaid.  While the responsibility for racism is not an American issue, but rather a world wide issue, (lets face it, America wasn't the only country that based it's labor pool on slavery), the fact remains that in America, with our 'liberties' we provided a fertile breeding ground for racial hatred that exists to this day, (just look at mr. hock, (couldn't get the c in there I see, for his screen name, and his fan club.) To deny humanitarian needs to any people, be they Hatian, or be they American, is to deny humanity in general.   Certainly America needs to better address it's own social ills, but the day that America turns it's back on the world is the day that the world will finally irrevocably turn it's back on America.  Sure, you can argue that it's already happened, but to be fair, no it hasn't.  It is efforts like the one in Hati that make America the symbol of hope and freedom all over the face of the earth.  Ignoring that is at least as cruel as it is to play the homeless card in liue of helping out in Hati's time of dire need. There are services, and options for Americans, for the Hatians, today, the only option is starvation, death, and anarchy should not the world, (not just America), step up to bring hope, and relief to the people so horribly affected by this disaster. And for Shavar Brown, seriously, really?  You don't care what nobody thinks, and then you come off with give the money to your black rear?  You prove the point of my statement above.  Why not try something new and innovative, like, oh I don't know, get a job?  And don't tell me you can't, there's plenty of work for uneducated, self rightious bigots out there who think the world owes them something.  Just ask Al Sharpton.

Hey Mike Hock, Robert M, eddie b, and shavar brown -- what you do you guys think of humanity? I'd like an outsider's opinion.

By the way, I'm texting in my donation right now

I have a feeling that the negative posts are by the same person. But the Haitian Government was allegedly warned 2 years ago, that's one thing. The other thing is how do you have babies when you can not feed yourself, it's good that if you have the money and you can donate, but if you don't don't feel guilty you didn't cause any earth quakes. And I still have an image of two people fighting over a pair of sandals from a collapsed sandal factory, not to  wear, but to sell, it reminded me of New Orleans and Katrina.

and the award goes to  . . . .  JennieDH excellent response to all the pessimists and bitter folk. it's one of the reasons I love this country and its good people like JDH!

mike hock (aka = cock) is one bitter man. wonder wtf his parents were thinking when they named him. but at least they got it right . . .

Ya'll missed it, pronounce it phonetically: Mike Hock = MyC Ock = My Cock.

Anyway, my priorities are just fine. I donate food, cash and material goods to American efforts as well provided that A. I think the donation goes to someone who didn't do it to themselves by being an idiot with their money, B. It does NOT go through the government or any other for-profit enterprise and C. there is a reasonably easy way to make the donation.

$10 in most other countries goes a LOT farther than it does here, we have too many d*mn regulations driving up costs on everything so sending this donation helps out more people and helps them more than it does here.

Finally, three cheers for JennieDH! She said it as well as I could if not better. I agree 100%.

I am very disappointed in how my fellow Americans think, Mike and all others who agree with him, lets hope god forgives you later in life, when you clear the path of your cloudy mind.

I feel really bad to this country. Haiti has been though alto within these last few years...as well as America (Tragedies within the US could have been prevented) for example: 9/11. There is no way to prevent an earth quake or hurricane katrina...All people can do is prepare for the worse. I think Haiti would have been able to save alot of people's lives if they would have taken heed to what scientist were telling them in 2008. Scientists who detected worrisome signs of growing stresses in the fault that unleashed this week's devastating earthquake in Haiti said Thursday they warned officials there two years ago that the country was ripe for a major earthquake. Their sobering findings, presented during a geological conference in March 2008 and at meetings two months later, showed that the fault was capable of causing a 7.2-magnitude earthquake - slightly stronger than Tuesday's 7.0 quake that rocked the impoverished country. Though Haitian officials listened intently to the research, the nearly two years between the presentation and the devastating quake was not enough time for Haiti to have done much to have prevented the massive destruction. Their conclusions also lacked a specific timeframe that could have prodded quick action to shore up the hospitals, schools and other buildings that collapsed and crumbled Tuesday. At the time of the earthquake, which the international Red Cross estimates killed 45,000 to 50,000 people, Haiti was still trying to recover from a string catastrophes. In 2008 alone, it was hit four times by tropical storms and hurricanes. The country also suffers from a string of social ills including poverty, unstable governments and poor building standards that make buildings vulnerable in earthquakes. "Haiti's government has so many other problems that when you give sort of an unspecific prediction about an earthquake threat they just don't have the resources to deal with that sort of catastrophe. As the Americans we should try our best to help others who are in more need. Yes we have people loosing homes. But the have lost entire families! show compassion. Treat others like you would want to be treated. As Americans...we have to help otherwise other countries will be against us....and may join up with terrorist groups and form larger groups to come against us. I myself am a US Army Soldier....and yes...I am Black...Which doesn't matter...Its bad enough we ae fighting other countries during this time...why???? make it worse on us by NOT helping. Its what us Americans do..show compassion, honor and selfless service.

I'm not about to make as harsh a comment as above. But do these people expect to practice voodoo and not expect repurcussions? God is real people, open up your eyes. The bible prophesied all of this. Haitans made a pact with the devil in 1791, a high price to pay for getting 'black freedom from slavery'. Haiti's neighbouring countries have not suffered anywhere near the same plight as this cursed country. open up your eyes. There is more to life than what can be seen. It is NO coincidence that our most hugest and horrific earthquakes this century have been felt in full force in Voodoo-worshipping capitals. Both completely representative of turning their back on Christ. That said, I do have sympathy on the people. I just hope people realise this IS god's work, and use it as a prime example not to turn your back on Christ.