Most short sighted ignorant post of the new year so far?
Haiti was a garbage dump before the earthquake. It had little clean water, no sewer system, extreme evironmental problems, and rampant disease problems. Now it has all these problems times about a billion.
Of course we need to get down and help with the medical and rescue but when it comes to rebuilding we seriously need to consider some other options. There have been about 10 major disasters there in the last decade. They haven't even come close to recovering from the storms from last year. We need to get people out of there and clean the place up. People shouldn't live in a place like Haiti with pre-quake conditions. That place is going to deteriorate even further now and we'll set up some shelters and rebuild some building but it would take tens of billions to make that place a non-garbage dump.