The Clinton-Bush Fund has closed up shop in Haiti: Here are the fruits of neoliberal "charity"

[davidthegnome]

50. This is a good example of why

throwing money at a problem (in itself) just doesn't work. It requires oversight by responsible people who care - and are willing to work.

Rather than donating our money to "Clinton & Bush" Charities, we could have (and should have - and still can) put together a National effort to send skilled workers to Haiti. With enough skilled workers, with enough supply (this is where the larger part of the financial aspect comes in) the entire Country could be rebuilt in a modern way that would put even our own infrastructure to shame. Of course, this is if those doing the rebuilding have an enormous amount of money. I still wonder what an organization comprised of working class people from America and of the equivalent in Haiti... I wonder what we could accomplish with far less money than what it would take all of these damned committees and charitable organizations.

Sending our best and brightest to work rarely means "sending our wealthiest and best connected" to talk. I think of all the Carpenters I have known, the masons, the electricians, the plumbers, we still have some damned good ones in this Country. There's a place we could put them all to work - not just doing what they do best, but training new generations of skilled laborers.

Maybe it's a silly notion, considering all the political hoops you'd have to jump through - and the amount of money needed.... but it would accomplish a number of goals. Demonstrate America's goodwill towards the world, perhaps create goodwill towards our own Nation. Employ a significant number of skilled workers while giving them the funding to train and hire (thus creating) more. Rebuild a devastated Nation in such a way that it could become the marvel of the modern world.