George Clooney to Host Haiti Telethon

lolakitty, who is "they?"

so far, NO one has mentioned bill gates, warren buffet, sir richard branson, don trump, sir's mccartney and elton john- add all that money up and i bet 25% would solve all these problems. Trouble is, the "problem" always is CORRUPTION and GREED..... EVERY Gov't, .....EVERY figure of authority. Ok, have a nice day !

Fed Up! - If you were poor without water and food and without a future, what else would you have to do but live for the moment? You'd probably spend a lot of time boning. Did you know that the reason Haiti is so poor to begin with is that it was a French slave colony and the Haitians overthrew the French, freeing themselves from slavery? After the overthrow, France insisted that Haiti owed it billions of dollars since slaves were an "investment" that had been taken from them. The US and Britain "helped" Haiti by loaning it money at astronomical interest rates so that it could pay off it's illegitimate debt to the French. It's been almost 200 years and Haiti has never been able to pay off the debt. US and European navies, in the mean time, have spent the last two centuries forcing Haitians to submit to the importation of European and US-produced food grown in quantities so large and so cheap that Haitian farmers cannot compete in their local markets. For that reason they cannot support themselves. That is also the reason why may Haitians have left the countryside and moved into the capital, Port-au-Prince, causing the city's population to swell. This has been great for US/European corporations who operate sweat shops in PAP because the supply of cheap easily-exploitable labor is readily available. In the 90's Haitians elected President Aristide and he tried to increase the minimum wage for Haitians and build schools and give poor people land. He was elected twice in legitimate, internationally-observed elections. Do you know what we did? We (the US) kidnapped Aristide, overthrew his democratically elected government, and replaced his administration with rich Haitians favorable to US business interests. The People of Haiti, do not control Haiti. That is the problem. They aren't poor because there's something wrong with them, which is really what you're trying to say with your wise-ass comment. You have no idea what the people of Haiti, freedom fighters, have been through. Get off your high horse and stop blaming the victim. You don't know what you're talking about.

I feel sorry for Haiti, but when you are so so poor and living in shacks without water or enough food, WHY ARE YOU STILL HAVING SO MANY CHILDREN YOU CANNOT SUPPORT AND THEY WILL GO WITHOUT EVERYTHING CHILDREN NEED IN LIFE, LIKE WATER AND FOOD AND MEDICAL HELP WHEN NEEDED. Quit multiplying your population like a bunch of rabbits NOW !

Angie and Brad are a very generous couple !

This is for all of you ungrateful people in America who are alive right now, I canâ??t believe yaâ??ll reactions toward whatâ??s going on in Haiti right now, Iâ??ll tell you guys exactly whatâ??s wrong with yaâ??ll: you guys always want more & more never satisfied with what yaâ??ll got, always sitting on yaâ??ll asses waiting for government helps or welfare, wouldnâ??t never do the kind of work that Haitians does here in the states to survive, will always be selfish till yaâ??ll die. And for most of you who donâ??t know your history I suggest that you get a book and read your pass about when Haiti had to help out America with wars.

I dont understand why some of you are sitting here getting mad about others donating to Haiti. How would you like it if you lost someone that you loved in your life??? Those of you who are writing comments about spending it on health care instead are obviously uneducated. If it was your family in another country that would you still be making that comment?? Many people have lost there lives and you people have your nerve to get mad that the president is trying to help them. I wish for all of you who made those comments, to go rot in hell!!

The united way is the biggest bunch of crooks. They go into companies, intimidate regular joes to donate with automatic monthly deductions taken from their paychecks, while the top brass gets six figures ($600,000+) and who knows how much of your money actually gets to the people in need. Nobody in charge of a charity needs to be making 600,000++

These Hollywood types that get paid to show their faces to raise money from people who are not as well off as they are so that some administrator can take 40-60 percent for administrative processing is fraud in my opinion. Let them give their own money. Our president woke up and over coffee gave 100 million of our money like it was cream for his coffee so George I did contribute. My Mother goes without decent food because our Government doesn't give a rats ass about the elderly in this country and my kids are loosing their home because they were not lucky enough to have a mortgage from the corrupt Fredie or Fanney. Sort of leaves them out of the corrupt Chicago machine we call Washington today So gee George,you go right ahead and make yourself feel better about overlooking your own people's plight in the US and give to a country that will never be able to help themselves under any conditions. This was just a wonderful reason for Obama to give US money to a black country. I'm sure he was slobbering with glee as he wrote the check and made the pledge to rebuild the country. What about his own freaking country? This guy should have never been elected. He belongs in Africa or Haiti or somewhere he can spend spend spend and no one is smart enough to recognize his corrupt politics.

Mrs PFC Boyd, Oh yea we can really rely on our government