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We need to look after ourselves. Why is the Government rushing to aid, feed, cloth and move foreigners .. but we cannot give healthcare, food, clothes and shelter to our own impoverished children? Children BORN IN AMERICA?
Priorities. For once in our lives, let's let other countries pick up the slack, and allow private volunteers and organizations to do what they can. Government needs to stay out of it.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
I live in Miami and we have a lot more than a 100,000 Haitians here already.
Most of them work, pay their taxes, and keep to themselves in their own little neighborhoods.
They are very jovial and good natured people for the most part. They love to argue about inconsequential things and will spend hours arguing good naturedly with one another about things that don’t merit a second thought.
They are kind of cute, and for the most part harmless.
I don’t mind taking in another 45,000 of them.
Hey the more the merrier. Some of you people really ought to lighten up!
Sorry but I have no compassion for them when I see so many Americans suffering in the United States.
Originally posted by blueorder
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
I live in Miami and we have a lot more than a 100,000 Haitians here already.
Most of them work, pay their taxes, and keep to themselves in their own little neighborhoods.
They are very jovial and good natured people for the most part. They love to argue about inconsequential things and will spend hours arguing good naturedly with one another about things that don’t merit a second thought.
They are kind of cute, and for the most part harmless.
I don’t mind taking in another 45,000 of them.
Hey the more the merrier. Some of you people really ought to lighten up!
Im sorry, but excuse me if I don't agree with the mass movement of Haitians because you deem them "cute"
Originally posted by Merigold
Sorry but I have no compassion for them when I see so many Americans suffering in the United States.
Suffering??
How many American do you know that have no access to clean water? How many Americans do you know that live on less than 2 dollars a day? How many American children die of gastreontitis, in Haiti it's the number one killer of children.
But yeah it's not your problem of course, they are diseased third worlders, and it isn't YOUR responsibility to to take care of them. You have no compassion, you have no HUMANITY!
Some of the responses on here make me literally ill. Sometimes I am really ashamed of the human race.
Originally posted by MagicaRose
reply to post by ohsnaptruth
I pray that they take advantage of what the American people are giving them and keep their A*** over there.
We don't need them here in this country to take away homes that our own homeless families need.
Sorry but I have no compassion for them when I see so many Americans suffering in the United States.
Originally posted by MaxBlack
These so called refugees are located right next door to the Domincan Republic. Why would we want to bring them here, unless its to create the exact kind of "OMG" what are they going to do in Florida?
Originally posted by OhZone
Just what we need.
More ignorant, illiterate, diseased 3rd worlders.
Originally posted by ForAiur
You can text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross Haiti relief (the $10 will show up on your phone bill). To everyone who has donated, thank you.
As for the OP and some of the people's comments here, sorry, but I don't feel any less sorry for homeless Americans than I do homeless Haitians.
If you really want to be specific about who deserves to be helped first, the Americans didn't have an earthquake happen out of nowhere. So if you really want to be critical, it's the Americans' fault. Especially after hearing how much compassion Pat Robertson and his ilk have. (Does he still have ANY followers? I mean ones who are willing to say it in public, not their local Bible-study/KKK meeting)
As for the Haitians, the only thing they did wrong was have an earthquake happen that was out of their control. If the Red Cross decides to let them in the US then I support their decision 100%. Besides, most of them already had citizenship anyway, to the US. The ones who are already here have already been given only 18 months to stay with their families.
In short, have some compassion. In short, what has Pat Robertson done for the average working-class American, the one who people say we should help first before we help Haiti?
If we do that we'll be waiting a long time! Cuz Guess What Pat Robertson Must Consider You Cursed, Too.
All you tea-baggers do is complain. Now you even dare to complain about charity groups (actually this isnt anything new, you right-wing radicals have been doing this for some time as an excuse to not have to partake in the virtue of charity).
Grow up!
You have no idea how many Americans are suffering in the current economic crunch. You might want to ask an unemployed who has recently lost his house how he feels about setting up 45,000 foreigners in this country.
Originally posted by Merigold
Again, see my last post, YOU have no idea what suffering is.
And by the way, I know first hand the "suffering " of unemployed Americans. My brother is an unemployed American who lost his house because he couldn't afford the mortgage anymore. Yet he still manages to get clean drinking water, feed his three kids and should the worst happen and one of them die he won't have to bury them in shallow grave at the side of the road somewhere.
Stop being selfish, you might lose your home and have to move into an apartment, or God forbid a rented trailer, but they'll be living in tents and #ting in holes for a long time to come.