Still hobbled by quake, Haiti awaits Isaac

With nearly 400,000 people still living in evacuation tents, a hurricane or even a tropical storm could lead to deaths and more damage to the already fragile country. NBC's Mark Potter reports.

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When will they be unhobbled? I seldom see an able-bodied male (sans machine gun) among women and children in these third world tearjerker photos.

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Reply#1 - Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:57 AM EDT

@cheetah

Exactly. They sit around and stack the dead up to block the food convoys.....this disasater has been going on....3 years now? 2.5? This worthless failed species we call negro will sit on their collective @sses until YT comes and rebuilds everything. And no matter how much money we throw into that cesspool, it will always look something like it does now.

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Reply#2 - Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:20 PM EDT

Why should they work?

Food and aid comes to them?

Funny it's against the law to feed dolphins o bears because

they become dependent on hand outs???

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Reply#3 - Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:50 PM EDT

While Haiti does give us some good examples of what happens when you outlive your means, I doubt most of us "get" it. And making such absurd remarks (the ones I've read so far) won't help bring intellectual conversation on how to help those that can't, or won't, help themselves.

It does not help that our current President has used such unintelligent tactics to divide us in a bid to win the another term.

Hopefully we will vote in Politicians who will work across isles, won't use words to rule our emotions, and will focus of per-tenant issues that won't put us in debt. Or give us the mindset that we can live well beyond our means.

Isn't that what happened to Hatti?

There are plenty of poor countries that don't sink to this level, and it does appear the "help" (money) that was pored into Hatti was abused (so poring more money won't work).

But we can't let people so close to us simply starve either.

Maybe birth control and food for the next 50 years would work... Of course Obama would just say were trying to get rid of the black person if we suggested that (trying to get votes)....

We need to fix our own problems first, which we'll hopefully start doing in November. Division is never good for the country. United we Stand

    Reply#4 - Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:35 AM EDT

    dudes, i have been to Haiti and it was a cess pool. the only place that looked good was the embassy and the MARINES quarters where they lived. people had machine guns everywhere we went. they do have a rum factory there when went,it was great. i would like too see the usa go in run this country since they can not.

      Reply#5 - Sat Aug 25, 2012 2:52 PM EDT

      With nearly 400,000 people still living in evacuation tents

      How long has it been now? Put a fence around this country, stop all 'aid' and let Darwinism resolve the problem. Throwing more money and more Sean Penn s at these pathetic people will not fix anything. Until they realize that nobody is going to help them, they will never climb out of the sewer. Time to sink or swim.

        Reply#6 - Sun Aug 26, 2012 1:33 AM EDT
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