Haiti Votes!

[Luke T.]

In the pre-dawn gloom, queues of people at a polling station in an upmarket district of Port-au-Prince stretched off in to the distance.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4691188.stm

Won't see that in America. What? A six hour wait to vote! I'll miss Desperate Housewives!

When the time to vote finally came on Tuesday, the worst fears of widespread bloodshed didn't follow. In the trash-strewn streets of Port-au-Prince, thousands of Haitians waited patiently in crowded winding lines for hours.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11225467/site/newsweek/

Kinda puts a lump in my throat. I have a special place in my heart for Haiti. Long story.

 

[Hutch]

I have a special place in my heart for Haiti. Long story.

As most of yours are...

Seriously, few nations outside of Sub-Saharan Africa have been as poorly ruled for as long as Haiti. That the people are willing, once again, to go to the polls and try to vote for someone who won't be corrupt, won't be a dictator, won't have armed gangs terrorizing them...

I hope they make it. And I hope in that $2.77 Trillion budget we can find a few dimes to help them out.

Wouldn't mind hearing the story sometime either...at your conveinence.

 

[BPSCG]

I hope they make it. And I hope in that $2.77 Trillion budget we can find a few dimes to help them out.

They got over $100 million in FY 1997, making them the ninth-biggest recipient of US foreign aid that year.

Link (and a fascinating one it is, too, showing what percentage of the time US foreign aid recipients voted against the US in the United Nations. Hint: Money can't buy love...)