I would like to comment on remarks made my CNN's Anderson Cooper and Sanja Gupta. They said, in harmony, how the focus has dangerously been turned away from the plight of Haiti. They state that the initial concern has stalled and they are worried that the absence of focus by all other news agencies will lead to a lack of empathy for the ongoing problems that the Haitians face.

I believe that they are correct in pointing this out.

What I see as the cause is this.

People in the United States are in a state of ruin themselves. We have not experienced a physical earthquake but we have had a similiar experience in our finances and our feelings of security within our finances and our physical security.

Knowing that our government has doaled out billions of dollars to Haiti over the years only to find that the people live in squallor still. What happened to all the money? What is the relationship between the government of Haiti and our government that this waste of money was allowed to continue. What is the connection for Bill Clinton. I think it goes deeper than a sentimental honeymoon connection!
With all the suffering now being felt in the United States, how can our attention be overtaken constantly by Haiti? Who is coming to help us in the United States? It is certainly not our own government. The government is causing this plight to the United States. If they would just stop spending and get out of the way, it's citizens would thrive.

So, although the remarks of the CNN crew are factual, they should not be delivered as though we in the United States are not a caring people. It should be paralled with the pain and poverty brought to the United States by it's own government.
As people here are becoming homeless and hungry and jobless, the government continues to spend our money and live in luxury. Spending our hard earned money to deliver billions to a government who did not use it to better their land....and no one did anything about it?

Put it all together and we are weary and leary and tired. The lies are exhausting us and the anger inflates as it does with our "bills due".

This is becoming the perfect storm for  a huge lash back at the government.

So, Anderson and Sanja, I am sorry that I can'tkeep feeling horrible for the Haitians as issues here at home are bad for us too.

We are broke and hungry here at home..... There is no line to draw here. We are all suffering....

I want OBUMMER out of office and I kinda' miss W'. (I would have bet a million dollars last year, that those words would never be typed from my fingers, but here I am. Saying it loud and proud.....)

OBUMMER OUT /  BUSH-IN

Thank you,

Karen R.