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In reply to the discussion: The Clinton-Bush Fund has closed up shop in Haiti: Here are the fruits of neoliberal "charity" [View all]davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)I'd like to see it. This isn't so much gloom and doom as it is pointing out problems - the same sorts of problems we're used to having with the very wealthy, particularly when they run charitable organizations. Clintons, Bushes, all part of the upper class - which, in itself, isn't enough to condemn them in my eyes. It's what they do with their money and power. I have some respect for the Clintons, but none at all for the Bushes, it's hard to imagine a democrat who can hold their nose long enough to work with Bush.
Forty seven million dollars for mortgages.... uh huh. I think the OP was pointing out that the mortgages are rather useless when there aren't any homes to go with them. The mortgages might be used to buy homes - but where are the homes they might be used to buy? Are they being built? Why not build them... well, BEFORE we start thinking about mortgages? It wouldn't be so terrible if the mortgages had come first, if there was enough money left over to do some building.
Show me the progress. These mortgages are useless without homes, without people who can pay for them. Show me the research that indicates otherwise, I'd love to see it.
That said - does anyone have pictures from 2013? I'd like to see what the difference is now. If any.
I'm all for charity, I'm all for helping people in need. I'm not for scamming them, ripping them off, or throwing all of our money into bull shit paperwork that doesn't get a single log placed. 47 million for mortgages is not 47 million for homes - the homes aren't built. Is anyone building them? Does the charity have enough money left to start? If not... seems a terribly inefficient and downright stupid way to rebuild a Country.
The important thing is what this charity has done to help those in need, with what they had available. You can't rebuild a Country with 47 million, or with 50, or with 54. You can certainly build a whole lot of homes though.