Hope and Change Comes to Haiti-more redistribution of our wealth

<blockquote>”Never let a crisis go to waste. It’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t ordinarily do” – Rahm Emanuel.” </blockquote>

Not all people who are conservatives agree with common sense or calling things by their real names-as there has been a complete departure from reason in today’s political climate, but I’m seeing more and more people coming out and calling this out for the foolishness it is.  I talked about it previously,<a href=”http://caosblog.com/archives/16523″> here</a>.  Bravo to JR who writes <a href=”http://www.greatamericanjournal.com/editor/archives/HopeandChangeComestoHaiti.htm”>at the American Journal</a>, proceeding from the Rahm Emmanuel quote:

<blockquote>The Earthquake in Haiti has presented this administration with just such an opportunity. Already, Obama has pledged $100 million of our tax dollars to the Haitian recovery but the real cost is expected to reach into the billions. No more need to give to charities because you and your children already have contributed whether you intended to or not. We have private charities in this country because our Constitution does not allow for government to give away our tax money.

Where will the money come from?</blockquote>

Great question, JR!  Like a bunch of adolescents with blank checks, this is the height of irresponsible behavior, driven by FEELINGS; completely abandoning common sense…or the repurcussions down the road.  Like it or not, we don’t have and endless amount of cash on hand…we need to learn how to live within our means!

<blockquote>Will Congress pass legislation to draw it from the treasury? All they’ll find there is a truckload of IOUs. Will it be borrowed from China? Or will Obama donate the money from the remaining $630 billion still remaining in his $787 billion stimulus slush fund? Will the U.S. bare the vast majority of the cost, or will Obama partner with the U.N. to impose an international tax?

It must be nice to be Barack Obama. First the media makes him out to be the long awaited Messiah; then it’s, “Welcome to the White House President Obama. And oh, by the way, here is a $787 billion slush fund gift for you to use anyway you wish during your term in office. Just don‘t tell the people that the money will be spent on your special interest campaign contributors.”

Joe Biden announced today that the Haitian recovery effort will not end with the recovery operation but will be a long term effort to rebuild and sustain the country.

“Our message is simple,” Biden said during his stop in South Florida, which has the largest Haitian-American population in the U.S. “We are there to rescue. We are there to secure. We will be there to provide. We will rebuild, and we will sustain.”

Could this be a prelude to making Haiti America’s 51st state, and another welfare state for the Democrats? “[Haiti] will still be on our radar screen long after it’s off of CNN crawler,” said Biden. “This is personal,” Biden added, referring to White House political director Patrick Gaspard, a Haitian-American who still has family in Haiti.

Biden went on to say: “The Haitian people, they’re our friends, they’re our partners, our neighbors.” They’re are “partners?” Partners in what – poverty and illegal immigration? In what legitimate venture have Americans ever partnered with Haiti? </blockquote>

Partners in crime is more like it – Haiti is fraught with corruption and they are so behind-the-times that they only made rape a crime in 2005.

<a href=”http://www.greatamericanjournal.com/editor/archives/HopeandChangeComestoHaiti.htm”>Read the rest at the American Journal.  Kudos to JR for a great piece.</a>