User blog comment:Era of Anarchy/Haiti and the U.S.A. always helping the world/@comment-1079585-20100120050433

808, I'm going to have to disagree pretty heavily on that, the basis for which is our 12 trillion dollar deficit. I'd say that qualifies as quite a bit of help. And Anarchy, I understand that America needs to do more to help the impoverished, but we are trying, so it's not like helping Haiti is diverting effort away from any domestic programs. Also, Haiti was always been beyond dirt poor, but we are only helping them now because of a natural disaster. It isn't like we've placed more importance on their poverty than out own, it's that their poor have always been MUCH worse off than our poor, and then their capital is ravaged by an earthquake.