I have very liberal and very conservative friends.
The liberal ones have much more cognitive dissonance than the conservative ones. The conservative ones? Once you show them the facts, they tend to shut up, or change their views accordingly. The liberal ones tend to just ignore reality or go away.
Well, this topic just came up the other day. I posted the link, they shut up, and just shut down. I don't know. But it is well known among the educated that the Bush crime family and the Clinton Crime family got rich off of the whole Haiti scam while the Haitians continue to suffer. If you don't know about this, they you are willfully keeping yourself ignorant.
Haiti and the international aid scam
Mark Weisbrot
Haiti is often decried for corruption but look at how reconstruction contracting works: it may be legal but it's still graft
Haiti and the international aid scam | Mark Weisbrot
This legalisation of corruption reached a new milestone last December when one Lewis Lucke, a long-time US Agency for International Development (USAID) official turned influence-peddler, sued a consortium of firms operating in Haiti for $492,000, for breach of contract. As Lucke would have it (sorry!), he was promised $30,000 a month, plus incentives, to use his influence to secure contracts for these nice fellas. He got them $20m worth of contracts, but they cut him off after two months. The defendants in the case are Ashbritt, a US contractor with a questionable track record, and the GB Group, one of the largest Haitian conglomerates. Together, they formed the Haiti Recovery Group, which they incorporated in the Cayman Islands, to bid on reconstruction contracts.
Lucke was well-positioned for the job, having formerly been in charge of the multibillion dollar reconstruction effort in Haiti for the US government. (He was also previously the USAID Iraq mission director; we know how that reconstruction turned out.) His lawsuit states that when he worked for USAID, "He met with Haitian officials, former United States Presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush, the state department, World Bank, and other participants …" He was then hired by Ashbritt to, among other things, make "strategic introductions to key stakeholders, organisers and brokers of Haitian recovery efforts …" Bill Clinton and George W Bush established the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund to help Haiti "build back better", and Clinton is co-chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), which has met about six times since the earthquake, and has been widely criticised for its lack of Haitian representation in decision-making.
When ever USAID is involved, folks are going to suffer.