Never Gonna Get It
18 01 2010My heart goes out to Haiti’s earthquake victims. I have read that the United States of America has pledged financial help in the amount of 100 MILLION dollars. Let me ask you something….. if we, as a nation gave 50 Million instead of 100 Million, wouldn’t it be possible to use the other 50 Million to get people off Medicaid and other public assistance vehicles which would actually save us taxpayers money in the long run? Let’s say we used some of the 50 Million earmarked for Haiti to compensate businesses and families to allow for the absence of volunteer EMS workers? I personally tried to volunteer as an AEMT-CC and firefighter my services in Haiti, and couldn’t find anyone who was grouping them together. I also met many like me online in the same exact situation.
I’m just never gonna get it no matter how much I think it through. I’m never gonna get how I go into homes where the residents are supported by public assistance (e.g., me, you, and the rest of the tax paying world) and I have to ask them to turn the big screen TV and boom box down so I can listen to lung sounds or a pulse. And I’m never gonna get how the mother of the 20 year old girl I picked up for abdominal cramps 3 days post DNC disconnects from her daughter so easily and readily. I’m never gonna get how Jean Wyclef, the operator of Yele, the alleged cause to help Haiti, has filed one tax return in the last 12 years, has enough to donate millions to his native country, and yet chooses not to pay his taxes. I’m never gonna get why we as a nation don’t demand that workfare, not welfare, be put in place. I’m not saying by any means that those being supported by public assistance are worthless. Far from it in fact. I’m never gonna get why, if after a certain amount of time on welfare someone hasn’t found a job, they are not put to work reconstructing places like Haiti. And I’m never gonna get why those on medicare are allowed (even expected) to rely on people like me, a volunteer Medic and Firefighter, but I cannot even think about relying upon them in return- say, someone to clean up the neighborhood on a volunteer basis.
If Haiti was a failed nation before the earthquake, it is most certainly a failed state now. 100 Million isn’t going to fix it. And most of the country’s residents are coming here to New York anyway.
Give it to Doctors Without Borders you say? None of the money from the recently run telethon will go to the wholly admirable Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders, which has already received enough money over the past three days to keep its Haiti mission running for the best part of the next decade.
How about the Red Cross? The last time there was a disaster on this scale was the Asian tsunami, five years ago. And for all its best efforts, the Red Cross has still only spent 83% of its $3.21 billion tsunami budget — which means that it has over half a billion dollars left to spend. Not to put too fine a point on it, but that’s money which could be spent in Haiti.
I’m never gonna get why the entire world kept hidden the fact that these buildings in Haiti which collapsed were being built on a fault line. It was hidden, right? I mean… who would build such structures on a fault line without proper architectural precautions? I guess next time the buildings in Haiti will be built more solidly…. like the homes of americans all over our nation who can’t pay their mortgages, and aren’t benefitting from 100Million from the feds.
Never….Gonna…. Get It…. Never.
Sing it to me, ladies!!!
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