[WyoDutch]

In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

Those of you who feel a need to send aid to Haiti... by all means, do so at once. Just make sure it's YOUR money you want sent... and not that of your neighbor.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WyoDutch', '
')Those of you who feel a need to send aid to Haiti... by all means, do so at once. Just make sure it's YOUR money you want sent... and not that of your neighbor.

[SpringCreekFarm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WyoDutch', '
')Those of you who feel a need to send aid to Haiti... by all means, do so at once. Just make sure it's YOUR money you want sent... and not that of your neighbor.

[mcgowanjm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WyoDutch', '
')Those of you who feel a need to send aid to Haiti... by all means, do so at once. Just make sure it's YOUR money you want sent... and not that of your neighbor.

[hardtootell-2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SpringCreekFarm', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WyoDutch', '
')Those of you who feel a need to send aid to Haiti... by all means, do so at once. Just make sure it's YOUR money you want sent... and not that of your neighbor.

[Ludi]

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Withhold taxes? You'd go to jail.

It ain't easy having your eyes open AND having a conscience.

[mcgowanjm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ithhold taxes? You'd go to jail.

[Revi]

This kind of aid is direct and actually helps people that need it. I agree completely with it. There is a lot of "aid" that drops into the bank accounts of dictators. This is not that kind of aid.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'T')his kind of aid is direct and actually helps people that need it. I agree completely with it. There is a lot of "aid" that drops into the bank accounts of dictators. This is not that kind of aid.

[WildRose]

It's a disaster of horrible proportions. I can't imagine how Haiti will come out of this.

So many people had nothing before this struck. The amount of aid that will be needed is phenomenal. So many of the organizations
that have been in Haiti to help the people there are themselves devastated (Doctors Without Borders, the UN, many missionary groups).

I have friends who have done missionary work recently there and are to return to Haiti in March. I don't know how this will affect their plans.
I've seen their pictures and heard their stories of the country before this disaster, and now...it's overwhelming.

[bluekachina]

Some of you should be ashamed. If it had been Great Britain, you would be falling all over yourselves to send aid. Could it be because Haiti is predominantly poor black and hispanics? The Racism evident from the US over the last few years is disturbing.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')aitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said “well over” 100,000 people may have died in yesterday’s earthquake, as the United Nations and relief groups rushed aid to the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.

President Rene Preval told the Miami Herald that the country was “destroyed” by the temblor, which was centered 10 miles (16 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince, a city of about 2 million inhabitants, at 4:53 p.m. local time yesterday. The Associated Press said bodies are piled along streets amid the rubble from thousands of collapsed buildings.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bluekachina', 'S')ome of you should be ashamed. If it had been Great Britain, you would be falling all over yourselves to send aid. Could it be because Haiti is predominantly poor black and hispanics? The Racism evident from the US over the last few years is disturbing.

[Sixstrings]

To those of you saying we shouldn't be helping:

1. It's the right thing to do, it's in our hemisphere just off our border
2. There are 45,000 Americans in Haiti
3. There are 20 US soldiers missing in Haiti
4. Cost is negligible (it's not like we're building hospital ships from scratch just for this, we already have the resources -- consider it a training exercise)

[WildRose]

I'm glad Canada is helping. I have thought so many times in my life how lucky I am that I was born into the relative affluence
that I grew up in (and my parents struggled raising me and my siblings). I would be grateful if other countries lent us their support
if Canada is ever impacted by a disaster of this magnitude.

[frankthetank]

The US can and must help... If we can go and invade countries for no reason, we can surely help a country RIGHT NEXT DOOR that was destroyed by an act of nature. If we have to put in a puppet government and keep a force there, so be it...

[Ludi]

The Red Cross is accepting donations for Haiti through their International Response Fund.

http://american.redcross.org/site/PageS ... =ntld_main

[Ainan]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bluekachina', 'S')ome of you should be ashamed. If it had been Great Britain, you would be falling all over yourselves to send aid. Could it be because Haiti is predominantly poor black and hispanics? The Racism evident from the US over the last few years is disturbing.

[gnm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ainan', 'T')he English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish are genetically near identical, they are a single ethnic group with very little change in the last 10,000 years when they arrived following the receding ice.

We shall eat potatoes, because potatoes are awesome.

[Ainan]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gnm', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ainan', 'T')he English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish are genetically near identical, they are a single ethnic group with very little change in the last 10,000 years when they arrived following the receding ice.

We shall eat potatoes, because potatoes are awesome.