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LuckyTheDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:26 PM
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So, the Freepers think the Haitians are lazy
Edited on Fri Jan-15-10 06:27 PM by LuckyTheDog
Here is the thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2428954/posts

Some choice quotes:

Sitting and waiting. Just like after Katrina. The headline is "Desperate Haitians Await Aid" and not "Determined Haitians Band Together to Help Themselves."

I am sorry. I know we should do whatever we can for these people. I will be donating to Christian relief groups. But it just bothers me when people will not take the initiative to help themselves, you know?

I sure hope this changes and we don't see what we saw after Katrina -- people sitting on their hands waiting for the USA to come do everything for them. This is what scialism/communism does to people, I guess.

by USALiberty

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My organization is asking for volunteers to deploy to that area. I feel safer in Iraq and would go to Afghanistan before I would go to that Caribbean hell hole.

by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this)

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My thoughts too. I remember reading about the Germans after the Dresden bombings. The very next day, they were out clearing damaged buildings and cleaning up.

by Jagman

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Thank God our tax dollars will be able to quickly rebuild the slums in Haiti and re-establish the basic poverty levels, inferior education system, and corrupt dictatorship they deserve. It’s comforting to know that billions of our tax dollars have been wasted over the years and that in the future we’ll have even greater opportunities to throw our tax dollars away on fraud and incompetence.

by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)

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Sitting and waiting. Just like after Katrina.

That is what everyone saw from New Orleans after Katrina. The media failed to show much of Mississippi, which bore the brunt of the storm, because the folks there followed the old tenet : "GOD helps those that help themselves." It just wasn't the "heart wrenching" story that sitting and doing nothing is.

by The Sons of Liberty (Pork Eating CRUSADER - FUBO! Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)

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All these stories about the Haitians complaining no one has yet come to rescue them. Maybe 3M people affected (capital alone had 1M). Estimates are 50k dead. Doubtless more injured, perhaps 100-200K. But that leaves a couple million uninjured Haitians who aren’t working the problem. Don’t they have any bulldozers of their own, or even shovels, in the whole country? Don’t stack bodies, dig some mass graves. In disasters of this size you can’t afford the niceties of identifying the dead and individual burial; throw them all in a big hole, archbishop and all, say a couple prayers and move to the next task. These people are pathetic, even without the earthquake, and Obama wants us to become just like them! Wards of big government, unable to change our own diapers.

by JohnBovenmyer

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Cirque du So-What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:33 PM
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1. Freepers?
Edited on Fri Jan-15-10 06:33 PM by Cirque du So-What
I've seen a comment right here alluding to the 'handouts' that Haitians will receive once they've been rescued:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7472023&mesg_id=7472088

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angstlessk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:36 PM
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4. you reference someone with 16 posts to represent DU??? just sayin n/t
Edited on Fri Jan-15-10 06:37 PM by angstlessk
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Confusious Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:08 PM
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15. He didn't say handouts
Edited on Fri Jan-15-10 07:09 PM by Confusious
He said bailouts, and I'm assuming that's alluding to the fact that, in normal times, the government gives help to everyone except middle class Americans.

And, no my response doesn't mean I think the Haitians should not receive our money and help ( I said "Normal times" ).
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:33 PM
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2. So a bunch of racists don't like an island full of black people.
No real surprises here. As Limbaugh leadeth so shall it be.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:46 PM
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7. That's it. That's what it's all about.
You are right about Limbaugh, as well.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:34 PM
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3. If these fucks would tune into something besides Fox News, they'd know that
the people were working like hell trying to clear the rubble to rescue their fellow citizens.

"Don't they have bulldozers?" Yeah, parked right next to their Lamborghinis. :eyes:

Despicable human beings.
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iamjoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:54 PM
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12. With Their Bare Hands
I heard reports of Haitians trying to dig people out of buildings with their bare hands because they had no equipment. There are probably many well-to-do Americans who wouldn't want to dig through rubble if it meant breaking a fingernail. At a certain point, though, there's only so much bare hands can do against concrete and steel.
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LuckyTheDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:37 PM
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5. Here is another doozy of a Freeper thread
Edited on Fri Jan-15-10 06:39 PM by LuckyTheDog
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2429387/posts

Quotes:

Haiti is like the Bates Hotel. You check in but you can’t check out.

by screaminsunshine (!!three if by government)

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Haiti poor Haiti. They are making another deal with the devil. Haitians are fuynny. They may see this “aid” as an invasion. I know the dark skins do not like the UN blue hats.

by screaminsunshine (!!three if by government)

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OBAMA'S QUAGMIRE !
WHAT'S HIS EXIT STRATEGY ?

by OB1kNOb (Q: What's the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo? A: Bo has papers.)

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Dump endless Haitians on Florida is the strategy. Give em all welfare, food stamps, free housing, social security, free medical on and on and on and on.

by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)

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Took Zero less than a day to commit our military to a non-military waste-of-time PR mission, and 6 months to up the Afghan troop contingent.

I hate this bastard more every day.

by The Comedian

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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:05 PM
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14. This one!
"Took Zero less than a day to commit our military to a non-military waste-of-time PR mission, and 6 months to up the Afghan troop contingent.
I hate this bastard more every day. by The Comedian"


He sure has the right fucking name. I can't get over this - 'non-military waste of time'. Killing is putting time to good use, saving lives is a waste of time. Either comedian or MAJOR ASSHOLE would work.

Please tell me where the fuck these people live? Have they never known hardship or disater??? OH man, it's always the fault of those who are killed by natural disasters. I heard this same shit from a former friend. I could deal with all her bullshit until she laid this one on me regarding those who died during Katrina, "it's their own damn fault". WTF!?





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Confusious Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:16 PM
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16. Someone had a great post a few days ago
Edited on Fri Jan-15-10 07:19 PM by Confusious
"The reason you have no money, or a job, or anything else, is because YOU didn't do the work to get there.

You have no house, no tv, no food, no opportunity?

Doesn't matter if your in the backwoods of Borneo, YOU just didn't take the bull by it's horns.

LUCK, which will be considered for the purpose of this post as "Being born with a silver spoon" "being in the right place at the right time" etc, etc, has nothing to do with it.

Never mind the US has been fucking with Haiti for the last century, and the world bank fucking with their economics. They should just have the STRENGTH to overcome that, or else they are lazy."

that's the conservative mindset.

It went something like that.

Kind of like " You can't dig yourself out of a collapsed APT building with two broken legs and two broken arms? You still got your mouth, you're just being lazy!"

Of course, if these fuckers have a paper cut, the want the world to stop for them.
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:26 PM
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19. Oh you've got that right.
And, whenever something happens them it's someone else's fault.

Glad we don't speak, I was getting pretty close to beating the shit out of her and at 60 that's not a nice thing to do. :evilgrin:

I wonder how many freeper minded assholes we have in this country?
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TheMadMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 08:56 PM
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22. And that my friend is why they get away with their shit.
Given half an opportunity they will "beat the shit out of" and given any opportunity whatsoever they will mount their soapbox and vomit their opinions over everyone else.

You don't deal with these sort by quietly breaking off relations.

Belly up up to them. Call them on their shit in public. Odds are those around you will applaud and you will have the satisfaction of seeing your former friend slink off with her tail between her legs. And if not, you have a pretty damned good indication that it's time to get the hell out of Dodge.
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DisgustipatedinCA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:44 PM
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6. I hate these people, I really do
I don't want to stoop to that level, but it's exactly how I feel when I read things like this. It's a good thing I have no power in the world, because what I want for these Freepers and many others who have posted/said similar things is not very charitable, not at all.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:46 PM
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8. I am so with you there.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:53 PM
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11. These people are a disgrace to the human race. They really are.
If I were to be such a sickening person, my folks would disown me and Mr. kt would leave me. And they should. Trash like this doesn't deserve the company of good people.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:50 PM
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9. Freepers are idiots. Now, show of hands please. Who is surprised?
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:52 PM
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10. It's easy to be outraged by them
But you've got to realize that they're mere children in their understanding of the world outside their immediate view.

They live in a fortress mentality that they've built up brick by brick by ignoring every chance they've ever had to educate themselves or even consider someone else's POV.

To me, it's a nightmare NOT learn about the world, to live within a constrained space where no ideas can penetrate.

Yes, they're repugnant. But ultimately, I feel sorry for them.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:56 PM
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13. I feel sorry for their own personal hell. I dispise them for the misery they cause others.
These are just not good people. Good people don't say such things. Repeatedly. Year after year.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:18 PM
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17. +1
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:18 PM
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18. Say the Freepers, posting from the safety and comfort of their mothers' basements.
You sound almost surprised to hear Freepers would take this opportunity to display their raging racism.
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:26 PM
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20. The last post there is so totally off. Haiti does not have big goverment,
they have practically no govt. to begin with. The Rethugs model for us IS Haiti, not Obama's. Utterly laughable.
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 08:26 PM
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21. I'd like to see those Freepers go without food or water for four days.
See how much energy they had, eh?

They won't even come out of their mom's basement to get a new bag of Cheetos. Mom has to bring it down, or toss it down, anyhow.
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Raschel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 09:38 PM
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23. And they call themselves Christians?
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 09:39 PM
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24. gross.
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