PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Nearly nine months after the earthquake, more than a million Haitians still live on the streets between piles of rubble. One reason: Not a cent of the $1.15 billion the United States promised for rebuilding has arrived....
With just a week to go before fiscal 2010 ends, the money is still tied up in Washington.
Isn't it odd how banks get it within days and wars never need worry? ?
At fault: bureaucracy, disorganization, and a lack of urgency, the Associated Press learned in interviews with officials in the State Department, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the White House, and the UN Office of the Special Envoy. One senator has held up a key authorization bill because of a $5 million provision he says will be wasteful.
After the corporate press made all of us open our wallets right away!
Meanwhile, deaths in Port-au-Prince are mounting, as quake survivors scramble to live without shelter or food....
Then GLOBAL GOVERNMENT has FAILED!
This was their BEST CHANCE to LEAD BY EXAMPLE -- and they blew it!!
Nor is Haiti getting much from other donors. Some 50 other nations and organizations pledged a total of $8.75 billion for reconstruction, but just $686 million of that has reached Haiti so far....
Yeah, GLOBALIST LIARS never put their MONEY where their MOUTH IS -- unless its a war for Israel!
The lack of funds has all but halted reconstruction work by CHF International, the primary US-funded group assigned to remove rubble and build temporary shelters. Just 2 percent of rubble has been cleared and 13,000 temporary shelters have been built — less than 10 percent of the number planned.
Related: One-Day Wonder: Haitian Hell Hole
So MORE DEBRIS has been ADDED since?
The Maryland-based agency is asking the US government for $16.5 million to remove more than 21 million cubic feet of additional rubble and build 4,000 more temporary houses out of wood and metal....
You know, the shanty shacks they had before.
Last week the inaction bore tragic results. On Friday an isolated storm destroyed an estimated 8,000 tarps, tents, and shacks in the capital and killed at least six people, including two children. And the threat of violence looms as landowners threaten entire camps with forced eviction....
Yup, hell can get even worse in Haiti.
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"Response in Haiti ‘paralyzed,’ report says" by Associated Press | October 8, 2010
UNITED NATIONS — A refugee-advocacy group said yesterday that more than 70 percent of camps in Haiti, home to an estimated 1.3 million earthquake victims, lack proper international management nearly nine months after the disaster, leaving them at increased risk of sexual and gang violence, hunger, and forced eviction....
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And what makes the FRONT PAGE of my Boston Globe?
US is key campaign stop for Haiti’s presidential candidates
Need I even comment?
Also see: What's New in Haiti Lately?
