How Long Until The Media Starts Debating Haiti ‘The Money Pit’?
Get ready. This is the sort of storyline we can probably expect to see emerging in the next few weeks. Since Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti a number of media folks on the right have been taken to task for questioning how much financial help the U.S. should be dolling out to Haiti, a “corruption” ravaged country that has that prior to this week had very little infrastructure, and now basically has none (things are so dire that U.S. airplanes bearing aid had to be turned away yesterday because the airport in Port-au-Prince was unable to handle any more traffic). It’s not, of course, a question of Americans’ generosity (it never is), but it will likely soon become a question of where the money is going and how much of it the country is willing to spend in a recession. It is that recession spending that Obama is likely going to have to address once the dust begins to settle in Haiti (media reporting wise…by all accounts it will likely be decades before the country is able to recover from th
