Foreign aid can't build a country up, it simply destroys local businesses.

We send food and clothing to Africa, and as a result it puts all the local farmers and producers out of business, retarding growth. It is best just to let them grow on their own.

Haiti was farked before the earthquake, and will be farked for the foreseeable future.

At least we didn't invade, otherwise we'd never get out.

Welcome home sailors, job well done.

AmazingRuss:
At least we didn't invade....

Yet...

Or maybe it just needs to re-supply.

With their birth rate, Haiti already has enough comfort.

WTF is up with the mindless hate-on for Haiti?

Mission accomplished.

vinn01: With their birth rate, Haiti already has enough comfort.

Strong in this one, the Win is.

Great job to the folks on Comfort. Please stay in harbor until this healthcare thing gets sorted out-we may need you.

jehovahs witness protection: nicksteel: Or maybe it just needs to re-supply a bath.


FTFY

yes, we all know that ships need an occasional bath.

Now the ship can raise the flag again.

/political stab
//runs and ducks for cover

Wait, did something happen in Haiti? There's a new season of American Idol, and I've been really concerned about Sarah Palin's reality show lately....

Yeah, because that's the USNS Comfort's job, build a farking nation from scratch. fark off subby, you ignorant arse.

Followup U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort returns to Baltimore after two months in Haiti. Obviously, all problems are solved there now, and we can stop sending money, right?



Isn't there a bridge you should be under?

funmonger: WTF is up with the mindless hate-on for Haiti?

Dunno. Third-world country, not remotely compared to the awesomeness of the US, therefore, inferior and prone to be hated upon and made jokes of?.

A child is waiting with his grandfather at an airport terminal for his father to get off the plane. The grandfather steps away to use the restroom, and tells his grandson to stay there. A chiseled marine steps off; perfectly shaved face, square jaw, flawless uniform with dozens of medals. The child asks, "are you a real marine?" the marine replies, " yes I am, would you like to wear my hat"? The boy says "yes." The marine steps off to hug his family. Then a sailor comes off the terminal; unshaven, still drunk, stained uniformed. The boy asks "wow are you a real sailor?" The sailor replies, "yes I am, do you wanna suck my d*ck?" The boy replies, "no, I'm just wearing the hat."

kibitzer788: Foreign aid can't build a country up, it simply destroys local businesses.

We send food and clothing to Africa, and as a result it puts all the local farmers and producers out of business, retarding growth. It is best just to let them grow on their own.

...Really?

Haiti's infrastructure was pretty much wiped out by the earthquake, and they've just entered the rainy season that will pretty much turn the entire island into a giant mud slide.

I don't think we're 'retarding' anything by making sure they're not all dead in a couple months.

/yes, I know I'm feeding the troll
//Can't help it...

Haiti's total assets pre-earthquate: approximately a buck fifty
Amount of charitable donations after earthquate: around 628 gajillion dollars

No Subby, we are supposed to continue sending money to Haiti forever. They will never be self sufficient and therefore we should support them because ....

Why should we support them? Because we are 'rich'? I don't think so.

Upon returning to Baltimore, many members of the crew were heard stating how living in Baltimore prepared them well for what they encountered in Haiti. "Both places look pretty much the same," said Phinster McGooglypants.

/Baltimoron

Subby, perhaps there may be plane leaving soon from your local airport which could facilitate your journey to Haiti allowing you to provide first person assistance to those in need.

skwerl: No Subby, we are supposed to continue sending money to Haiti forever. They will never be self sufficient and therefore we should support them because ....

Why should we support them? Because we are 'rich'? I don't think so.

Well, obviously we have to support them forever. They aren't capable of fending for themselves. They're black. They're inferior.

I think this is what subby is trying to say.

The USA and its military are such kind altruistic charitable organizations. Such generosity. Such loving, nurturing care. What did the world do to deserve it?

What a jerk headline - stupidmitter

farkityfarker 2010-03-20 01:59:17 PM
The USA and its military are such kind altruistic charitable organizations. Such generosity. Such loving, nurturing care. What did the world do to deserve it?

You exist and arent our enemy. You are welcome

Dalrint: kibitzer788: Foreign aid can't build a country up, it simply destroys local businesses.

We send food and clothing to Africa, and as a result it puts all the local farmers and producers out of business, retarding growth. It is best just to let them grow on their own.

...Really?

Haiti's infrastructure was pretty much wiped out by prior to the earthquake, and they've just entered the rainy season that will pretty much turn the entire island into a giant mud slide.

I don't think we're 'retarding' anything by making sure they're not all dead in a couple months.

/yes, I know I'm feeding the troll
//Can't help it...

fixed and such

Gdalescrboz: You exist and arent our enemy. You are welcome

Thousands of Iraqi children weren't so lucky.

I give thanks to the Comfort and our nation that there was a country that even had the means to send a ship down there for that amount of time. Good job guys/gals!

some are worth saving, maybe we can use it fot the new prison.

Haiti, a land that can support maybe two million people but has nine million because of too much farking and not enough working.

Building a hospital or two will not help at all, and will only make matters worse unless the surgeons did only sterilizations and nothing else.

Consider a Soylent Green factory, that might have been useful.

It's not so much that Haiti doesn't need help, but that Baltimore needs it more.

Welcome back, and thanks.

/haitians gonna haiti

If we and everyone else stopped sending them money the problems there would go away in less than a decade.

mreuther: It's not so much that Haiti doesn't need help, but that Baltimore needs it more.

Came in here to post that.

I fail to see what a photo of Rush Limbaugh has to do with the comment above it.

Subby is a tard.

He can stop submitting now, right?

Fark Haiti. What have they ever done for us?

BRAVO ZULU Comfort ! Welcome home and thank you for doing a great job representing the best the USA has to offer.

I think hospital ships are some of the most amazing vessels afloat. Right up there with fast missile frigates and aircraft carriers.

Welcome home, sailors!

zamboni: Or maybe enough land-based medical facilities have been constructed to allow to allow the the excellent, mobile but ultimately limited hospital ship to leave. It can go back to Baltimore, resupply, rest and get ready for the next mission.

Look at the specs:
Intensive care wards: 80 beds
Recovery wards: 20 beds
Intermediate care wards: 280 beds
Light care wards: 120 beds
Limited care wards: 500 beds
Total Patient Capacity: 1000 beds
Operating Rooms: 12

Impressive, but in two months they could build land based facilities to handle many more than that. In addition, the needs that a hospital ship typically attends to are probably at or near the end.

Good job. Well done.

When it comes to terrorist organizations providing humanitarian relief for PR purposes, Al-Qaeda does a much better job than the US military does.

Fark Haiti. What have they ever done for us?

Well, historians believe that the slave rebellion in Haiti prompted Napolean Bonaparte to sell the French colonial territories in Louisiana and elsewhere to the fledgling United States of America in 1803, more than doubling the size of the US.

base935: Fark Haiti. What have they ever done for us?

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In the 1980s, Haitian immigrants were the primary HIV vector into the United States. Before that, baseball stitching and coupon redemption processing.