Comments on: Update III: Haiti's Hurting, What's New? (Rotting Roadblocks)

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:54:05 +0000

Obama believes in charity. I forget the actual numbers but an article stating his tax return for 2008 he gave something like 800 dollars to private charity and 800K to his favorite nonprofit charity the US government in taxes. By limiting the deduction for private charity, he is supporting his favorite group. Bush committed 300 million in regard to the tsunami and the other nations said it was too small an offer, though not one other nation gave over a tenth of that. The private citizens of the US obscured Bush’s offer but received no credit for it. No nation stood up in the UN and said ‘thank you.’ I received all kinds of e-mails from Democrats telling me how cheap Bush was, yet Obama only offered 100 million and no one is saying anything. As Ilana inferred, we the private citizens of this country will probably bury the country in help and Obama will get the credit for it.

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:16:32 +0000

I was disturbed by this issue and I’m glad you have addressed it. The first news I heard of relief efforts were those undertaken by Christian organizations. That will happen as a natural outcome of people operating in accord with their faith, and not government coercion. We need more of the former and less of the latter.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:58:35 +0000

Citizens give to charity out of the goodness of their hearts. Governments give to charity for public show. I’ll let everybody decide on their own which motive is the most dependable.

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:13:28 +0000

Switzerland

Swaziland.

What’s the difference?

If you can answer this then you know what ails Haiti.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:22:28 +0000

Ironically, Obama wants to LIMIT tax deductions for charitable aid. That is the one loophole I truly truly favor. If we did have a small tax, I would let people who donated to emergency food/shelter/medical/clothing to the indigent to take a large portion deducted while ELIMINATING the WELFARE STATE. E.G. – Donate 15% of your money to avoid a 10% tax rate – and so we could replace USAID with Individual Aid. Obama moves in the opposite direction from morality and common sense.

Salvation Army type organizations can do so much better than the FEMA bureaucrats – so $ 1 donated to them probably is more effective than $ 3 of FEMA morons.