Originally Posted By Mr X <a href="http://newsprism.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://newsprism.wordpress.com/</a> ***On his radio program, Rush Limbaugh has not only chosen to politicize the earthquake, but is actually discouraging listeners from donating to relief efforts! Limbaugh’s reasoning is chilling: First, he claims that “we” have already donated via income taxes…in other words, since our government is helping Haiti, we need do no more (other than complain about it.) Second, Limbaugh insists that such donations would be wasted anyhow: "There are people that have been trying to save Haiti just as we’re trying to save Africa. You just can’t keep throwing money at it because the dictatorships there just take it all…(and) you’re not creating a permanent system where people can provide for themselves."*** If I were a conservative I'd be putting a lot of effort into denouncing this loathsome bile spewer and working to convince all my fellow Cons that he has no business being on the air let alone "representing" anyone. Just like if I were a devout Christian I'd be encouraging all other Christians to tell Pat Robertson and his ilk exactly where to stick it.
Originally Posted By SuperDry On his website right now is the headline: <<< Obama Leaps into Action on Haiti He waited three days to speak on Underwear Bomber. >>> Well gee let's see, in one situation we have an entire country devastated, perhaps with 100,000+ people dead from an event that happened on a normal business day, and in the other, we have an averted attack that injured let alone killed nobody that occurred on the 3-day Christmas Day weekend. Perhaps that explains the difference?
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder It's crap like this that will make more and more reasonable people shun the guy.
Originally Posted By DAR About this statement: <<because the dictatorships there just take it all>> I will say that is a valid concern in some of these countries. But I don't know what the leadership is like in Haiti these days.
Originally Posted By Mr X After this, DAR, I think the government for all intents and purposes doesn't exist at all. But in any case I don't see how that would be a valid concern in terms of donating to a legitimate and well known charity (like doctors without borders, for example), on behalf of people suffering under such regimes.
Originally Posted By DAR No I say donate, I just want the money to get to the charities like Doctors w/o Borders, with not them having to worry about some goons stepping in.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy I always like how we criticize the corruption in foreign governments. We have a great deal of corruption in our own government. You might argue that our government corruption is more sophisticated, but it is there nonetheless. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. A magnitude 7.0 earthquake would be devastating anywhere in the world. There would be devastation in San Francisco or Los Angeles under those seismic conditions. The people of Haiti deserve our compassion and outreach. Rush Limbaugh deserves nothing but contempt.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan How to donate to UNICEF, CARE, Red Cross and many, many others: <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34835478/ns/world_news-americas/" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34...mericas/</a> Rush Limbaugh inspired me to double my donation.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***No I say donate, I just want the money to get to the charities like Doctors w/o Borders, with not them having to worry about some goons stepping in*** So, donate directly then. <a href="http://doctorswithoutborders.org/donate" target="_blank">http://doctorswithoutborders.org/donate</a> As far as the whole "corrupt guys will take everything anyway, so why bother?" argument is concerned, I would counter with this...in countries so corrupt that for every $1 contributed, 90 cents goes into the pockets of the corrupt overlords, is that any reason to say it's not worth the bother, and thus take away even the 10 cents that would go to the suffering people?
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I got emails from many of the groups I often give to that would be involved in this--DWB, Red Cross, Oxfam, Habitat, IRC (great group if you're not familiar)-- and they ALL stressed how important it was not only to get the money in, but to get it in quickly. And they have great track records of getting the money to the people, bypassing governments if necessary. As for Limbaugh... words fail.
Originally Posted By DAR <<And they have great track records of getting the money to the people, bypassing governments if necessary.>> And that's what needs to happen.
Originally Posted By velo another I would recommend: <a href="http://whatiffoundation.org/" target="_blank">http://whatiffoundation.org/</a>
Originally Posted By Labuda As Al Franken informed us years ago, Rush Limbaugh is a big, fat idiot. What a jerk. Good for you, 2oony! What made me decide to donate more than I would have otherwise is something that has bothered me since I was a teenager... I'm related to that freakin' MORON Pat Roberston. Makes me sick to know we have the same blood coursing through our veins.
