Haiti we do care, the middle class is just to occupied to help right now.

With the looming financial crisis in the USA, many people have not had the energy or time to worry about the state of affairs in other parts of our hemisphere. The Country of Haiti has not just been hit with a continues series of civil unrest in the last years but in the last couple months has been ravaged by hurricanes and tropical storms:

"Civil defense director Maria-Alta Jean Baptiste said in an interview with The Associated Press that 793 bodies have been found so far, and authorities are still looking for bodies in the mud that swamped coastal settlements....
Crews have found 466 bodies in the hard-hit town of Gonaives alone, and government workers are burying the dead immediately to avoid contamination and the spread of infectious diseases, she said.
The four tropical storms that struck in late August and early September also wiped out at least 60 percent of Haitian agriculture and destroyed roads, bridges and homes...
International aid and food has poured in, but the U.N. World Food Program has so far received only $1 million of the $54 million it requested."

(MSNBC, 2008)
This is just heartbreaking Revelation that a country ignored by the international community is ignored in their time of most need. I guess the country pick a bad time to be hit by 4 storms. They should have done this before the worldwide financial crisis, they would have at least received some more help than $1 Million dollars. how much money was Thailand given after their monsoon. O there is a difference though, one country is a trade partner. The other country is just over 600 miles away from the U.S. Its a sad time when looking at humanities true focus, themselves. I am keeping all of the world in my prayers, including the people of Haiti. But what can i say, it took the Govt 3 days until they decided to help the victims of Katrina, and if you heed the words of certain representatives of our elected body of law makers. The Government run FEMA(Part of the department of Homeland Security) did a lot more than just help save people.

Where the hell are all these entertainers that only show up when there is a national disaster in some part of the world. Can they not help or bring attention to a subject unless a TV crew is with them. They are just as out of touch as everyone on wall street. Just profiting off of the citizens, and then complaining about the attention and blaming others for their problems. Sheesh

Hurricane Gustavo

Hurricane Gustavo is slated to hit Haiti and Cuba soon, but my assumption is that both countries are on their own. Since the United States does not support Communist nation in any shape or form, Cuba is past being helped. While Haiti, in the eyes of many developed nation has nothing to offer, so who cares. We might see a New Orleans Katrina fiasco, since Haiti can almost provide no social services as it is. Dont get it twisted though, its just not Bush who hates certian people. Most of the world would rather not care, and help other countries recover from tsunamis that aren't even in our hemisphere.

MSNBC:

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Rapidly growing Hurricane Gustav headed for a
collision with impoverished Haiti on Tuesday...Forecasts suggested that Gustav's
eye might pass near the capital of Port-au-Prince, home to nearly 3 million
people. msnbc