Soapbox - How Much has Haiti Pledged to Tennessee?

A perfect storm has been created by a series of earthly events recently which have exposed a few of the true evils underlying amongst America’s cultural undercurrents; guilt, elitism and racism.

We’re a sick, pathetic society at times. Fueled by mis-reporting and underreporting by a lame media that stretches from the USA Today far past Fox News, our culture has ignored the suffering of its fellow citizens while playing right into the narrative of America being a guilty nation and bending over backwards to send money to a wasted piece of God’s earth which has no chance of thriving anytime in our lifetime.

Chances are you have little idea what I’m talking about. That’s equally as pathetic. No doubt you are aware that Haiti suffered what we’re told we must believe is a “horrible, awful, catastrophic” earthquake a few months ago, bringing an already “delicate” country on shaky foundations crumbling back down to third world status. Oh, the humanity. God knows that you couldn’t escape the massive media coverage of the Haiti earthquake for days, nay weeks, afterwards.

Chances are equally as likely that you are unaware of the suffering of American citizens at the hands of mother nature as well; at the time of this writing the death toll in Tennessee as a result of massive flooding has reached 19 people; not just people but American citizens (unlike, say…Haitians!); and the death toll from the entire area (Kentucky and Mississippi are affected as well) is over 30 Americans and the damage to one of America’s most historic and beautiful places in monstrous. Landmarks and destination resorts will remain closed until Christmas and the price tag of the devastation will eclipse $1 billion, with many of the victims not being covered on their insurance policies against flooding (as is true of the overwhelming majority of Americans).

Yet while telethons were hurriedly rushed onto the international airwaves to beg for money to help the people in Haiti while thousands of journalists broadcast live from Port Au Prince daily, seemingly no one is doing anything to report, pay attention to, or bring light to Tennessee. Anderson Cooper, of CNN, traveled to Nashville last week, days after the flooding, to finally report on the suffering, but only after country music singer Kenny Chesney made a live video phone call to Cooper’s show demanding to know where the media was. While better late than never may be an age-old expression, it is not a credible way to run a news organization.

So why the disconnect? Why is Tennessee ignored while Haiti and New Orleans are fawned over? Because Tennessee is nothing but a bunch of white, racist, uneducated, redneck, gun-toting, bible-thumping hicks that drive pickups and burn crosses. New Orleans, meanwhile, is filled with poor, desperate, African Americans and immigrants who are just trying to get ahead in life but who have never been given a fair chance and are held down by racist, bigoted policies supported by white, racist, uneducated, redneck, gun-toting, bible-thumping hicks. Haiti, meanwhile, is the most beautiful island on earth, yet America has ignored its glorious neighbor to the south and allowed it to waste away aimlessly and recklessly, rather than supporting and lifting up the island of dark skinned people that are good, honest, hard working folks who just want to get ahead in life and should be given the chance by America since we have so much and they have so little. (Note: you are supposed to ignore the $5 billion sent to Haiti in financial aid by America in the decade preceding the earthquake. Please do not allow facts to get in the way of your hypocritical elitist racism).

I have traveled to Tennessee half a dozen times in my life. I have never been to New Orleans or Haiti and plan on never going based solely on the human sludge that has been paraded before us in both places ad nauseum; wretched, vile human beings with their hands out blaming the government while expecting that same government to save them from their miserable, self created rotten existence. The people of Haiti and New Orleans are the exact same people; lazy dirt bags unwilling to take advantage of the endless array of opportunity before them and first in line to blame everyone else for their lot in life and feel entitled to a solution being handed to them.

Tennessee folks, meanwhile, say things like “thank you,” and “sir” or “ma’am.” They shake your hand firmly while looking you in the eye, politely and respectfully disagree with you when there’s dissention and expect nothing from you in return other than kindness and earned respect. Whether they love Jesus or their pick-up trucks they go about their business, most of them barely getting by, but doing it on their own with a sense of pride unknown and unmatched in most parts of America. They neither ask for, nor in most cases, accept hand-outs, demanding to earn everything they achieve. Like so many people in what elitist snobs like to call “flyover country,” they are the salt of the Earth and the heart of the nation and we do everything we can to ignore them, demean them, marginalize them and mock them.

When an oil spill headed towards the shores of New Orleans creating an ecological disaster for business and birds, President Obama couldn’t get on TV fast enough to pledge his support and promise to fly to the area and view the devastation.

When a flood wiped out honest, hard working people’s homes and killed dozens of Americans in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi, the President quietly declared the area the disaster, and made no speeches and brought no attention to the plight of the suffering. Seagulls matter, southerners don’t.

New Orleans is home to jazz and some of the greatest blues singers known to mankind; it’s the birthplace of one of America’s greatest musical institutions and a place that has not only welcomed but elevated countless African American entertainers.

Tennessee is home to Nashville and that twangy, woman-hating, dog loving country music that is the blight of America’s entertainment industry and an embarrassment to the nation as a whole; a musical genre that can count on one hand how many black folk have ever been welcomed to the alleged art and an area as a whole that reveres the Klan more than diversity. That’s how elites see it. It’s no contest; New Orleans and Haiti suffers because of America, Tennessee suffers because it deserves to.

Prior to its earthquake, Haiti was a wasteland of corruption, poverty and despair and a symbolic message to the world of wasted potential. Think of what Haiti could be if its people worked for it and demanded it; an island destination in one of the most beautiful, atmospherically perfect places on earth; yet they piss it away generation after generation. After the earthquake, it’s the exact same, just with more rubble. Big loss.

Prior to the floods, Tennessee was a destination and a thriving, beautiful state with everything from the most visited National Park in America (the Smoky Mountains), to the Grand Ole Opry, to some of the most amazing waterfalls on the planet. After the floods, Tennessee, unlike Haiti and New Orleans, will rebuild itself. They will proudly work harder than anyone else in America to get back, on their own, what they rightfully have earned and built. And somehow, no doubt, they will be mocked for it. We will find a way as a nation to ridicule the hard working achievers who rise and rest each day with pride, while we will simultaneously revere those who desperately suck every last ounce of charity and hard work out of the rest of us.

Give your money to Haiti; I’m sure the despicable despot who runs the country will enjoy using it to smoke a Cuban cigar in his castle. My money is going to Tennessee because they’ve earned it.

A perfect storm has been created by a series of earthly events recently which have exposed a few of the true evils underlying amongst America’s cultural undercurrents; guilt, elitism and racism.

We’re a sick, pathetic society at times. Fueled by mis-reporting and underreporting by a lame media that stretches from the USA Today far past Fox News, our culture has ignored the suffering of its fellow citizens while playing right into the narrative of America being a guilty nation and bending over backwards to send money to a wasted piece of God’s earth which has no chance of thriving anytime in our lifetime.

Chances are you have little idea what I’m talking about. That’s equally as pathetic. No doubt you are aware that Haiti suffered what we’re told we must believe is a “horrible, awful, catastrophic” earthquake a few months ago, bringing an already “delicate” country on shaky foundations crumbling back down to third world status. Oh, the humanity. God knows that you couldn’t escape the massive media coverage of the Haiti earthquake for days, nay weeks, afterwards.

Chances are equally as likely that you are unaware of the suffering of American citizens at the hands of mother nature as well; at the time of this writing the death toll in Tennessee as a result of massive flooding has reached 19 people; not just people but American citizens (unlike, say…Haitians!); and the death toll from the entire area (Kentucky and Mississippi are affected as well) is over 30 Americans and the damage to one of America’s most historic and beautiful places in monstrous. Landmarks and destination resorts will remain closed until Christmas and the price tag of the devastation will eclipse $1 billion, with many of the victims not being covered on their insurance policies against flooding (as is true of the overwhelming majority of Americans).

Yet while telethons were hurriedly rushed onto the international airwaves to beg for money to help the people in Haiti while thousands of journalists broadcast live from Port Au Prince daily, seemingly no one is doing anything to report, pay attention to, or bring light to Tennessee. Anderson Cooper, of CNN, traveled to Nashville last week, days after the flooding, to finally report on the suffering, but only after country music singer Kenny Chesney made a live video phone call to Cooper’s show demanding to know where the media was. While better late than never may be an age-old expression, it is not a credible way to run a news organization.

So why the disconnect? Why is Tennessee ignored while Haiti and New Orleans are fawned over? Because Tennessee is nothing but a bunch of white, racist, uneducated, redneck, gun-toting, bible-thumping hicks that drive pickups and burn crosses. New Orleans, meanwhile, is filled with poor, desperate, African Americans and immigrants who are just trying to get ahead in life but who have never been given a fair chance and are held down by racist, bigoted policies supported by white, racist, uneducated, redneck, gun-toting, bible-thumping hicks. Haiti, meanwhile, is the most beautiful island on earth, yet America has ignored its glorious neighbor to the south and allowed it to waste away aimlessly and recklessly, rather than supporting and lifting up the island of dark skinned people that are good, honest, hard working folks who just want to get ahead in life and should be given the chance by America since we have so much and they have so little. (Note: you are supposed to ignore the $5 billion sent to Haiti in financial aid by America in the decade preceding the earthquake. Please do not allow facts to get in the way of your hypocritical elitist racism).

I have traveled to Tennessee half a dozen times in my life. I have never been to New Orleans or Haiti and plan on never going based solely on the human sludge that has been paraded before us in both places ad nauseum; wretched, vile human beings with their hands out blaming the government while expecting that same government to save them from their miserable, self created rotten existence. The people of Haiti and New Orleans are the exact same people; lazy dirt bags unwilling to take advantage of the endless array of opportunity before them and first in line to blame everyone else for their lot in life and feel entitled to a solution being handed to them.

Tennessee folks, meanwhile, say things like “thank you,” and “sir” or “ma’am.” They shake your hand firmly while looking you in the eye, politely and respectfully disagree with you when there’s dissention and expect nothing from you in return other than kindness and earned respect. Whether they love Jesus or their pick-up trucks they go about their business, most of them barely getting by, but doing it on their own with a sense of pride unknown and unmatched in most parts of America. They neither ask for, nor in most cases, accept hand-outs, demanding to earn everything they achieve. Like so many people in what elitist snobs like to call “flyover country,” they are the salt of the Earth and the heart of the nation and we do everything we can to ignore them, demean them, marginalize them and mock them.

When an oil spill headed towards the shores of New Orleans creating an ecological disaster for business and birds, President Obama couldn’t get on TV fast enough to pledge his support and promise to fly to the area and view the devastation.

When a flood wiped out honest, hard working people’s homes and killed dozens of Americans in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi, the President quietly declared the area the disaster, and made no speeches and brought no attention to the plight of the suffering. Seagulls matter, southerners don’t.

New Orleans is home to jazz and some of the greatest blues singers known to mankind; it’s the birthplace of one of America’s greatest musical institutions and a place that has not only welcomed but elevated countless African American entertainers.

Tennessee is home to Nashville and that twangy, woman-hating, dog loving country music that is the blight of America’s entertainment industry and an embarrassment to the nation as a whole; a musical genre that can count on one hand how many black folk have ever been welcomed to the alleged art and an area as a whole that reveres the Klan more than diversity. That’s how elites see it. It’s no contest; New Orleans and Haiti suffers because of America, Tennessee suffers because it deserves to.

Prior to its earthquake, Haiti was a wasteland of corruption, poverty and despair and a symbolic message to the world of wasted potential. Think of what Haiti could be if its people worked for it and demanded it; an island destination in one of the most beautiful, atmospherically perfect places on earth; yet they piss it away generation after generation. After the earthquake, it’s the exact same, just with more rubble. Big loss.

Prior to the floods, Tennessee was a destination and a thriving, beautiful state with everything from the most visited National Park in America (the Smoky Mountains), to the Grand Ole Opry, to some of the most amazing waterfalls on the planet. After the floods, Tennessee, unlike Haiti and New Orleans, will rebuild itself. They will proudly work harder than anyone else in America to get back, on their own, what they rightfully have earned and built. And somehow, no doubt, they will be mocked for it. We will find a way as a nation to ridicule the hard working achievers who rise and rest each day with pride, while we will simultaneously revere those who desperately suck every last ounce of charity and hard work out of the rest of us.

Give your money to Haiti; I’m sure the despicable despot who runs the country will enjoy using it to smoke a Cuban cigar in his castle. My money is going to Tennessee because they’ve earned it.

Ok, Tennessee can rebuild itself due to having one of the richest countries in the world as its governement, it will not be left alone. Haiti on the other hand is one of the poorest countries in the  world, to be rebuilt it will need all the support it can get. And  when it is it will not be rebuilt earthquake proof due to not having the funds available. So when another earthquake hits it will happen again. Unlike Tennessee where flood protection schemes will be put in place to help proctect it in the future.
 
You mention how the people of Haiti are lazy, and dont achieve. Well I hardly think thats fair. Unlike America where eduaction is for all, the people of Haiti dont have this luxary and as a result the popualtion dont have the right skills to work themselves out of poverty. Its up to the developed countires in the world to get off there arse and start helping these countries out. I'm not saying throw money at them but working on the ground to help them build a productive communtiy and give the future generations an education.
 
All disasters are horrible and I feel for both the people of Haiti and that of Tennessee, however undeveloped countries need the support of dveveloped coutries more as there governemnt cant provide the support the people need to surive. A vast contrast to Tennessee where they have the backing of the US governemnt.

not comparable bro.

Well this is going to end well.

Oh look, a racist, elitist, ignorant and selfish idiot calling people out on being racist, elitist, ignorant and selfish.  WHAT AN IDIOT.

I'm not sure if you are serious or not. Are you really serious or not? I want to make sure before I make any further replies.

this has to be a troll
 
right?

More people than that die putting their underwear on each morning. It's hardly a global crisis.

" Jesus Christ, Expecting one of the poorest countries in the world to donate to a rich one, wow. "

The death tolls alone are why the TN issues while shitty literally isn't even 1% of Haiti or even in the same ballpark as Katrina.  30 people and a billion dollars, in the grand scheme of things isn't shit.

" Months before the disaster that hit Haiti, a BBC news reporter was in the country reporting about the impending disaster of widespread famine. We in the UK saw shocking footage of people fighting over individual grains of rice from the dirt, after aid trucks had passed through. We also saw how families we're cutting up old dried animal skins, that are used traditionally to cover the floors, and boiling them to eat. Despite the fact they have no nutritional value whatsoever. That was before, I dread to think what it was like after...  That's all I need to know. "

" @PeasForFees said:

" Jesus Christ, Expecting one of the poorest countries in the world to donate to a rich one, wow. "

Thats not the point of the post.  The point is that Haiti takes money that is given to it and spends it in ways that do NOT help the country at all.  We gave Haiti $5 billion a decade ago, and what do they have to show for it?  Nothing.  The people of  Haiti would rather blame other countries for their problems, yet when other governments are giving away money, they are the first in line.   
 
How long did it take for Haiti and the oil spill off the course of New Orleans to make the news?  No time flat.  How long before the flooding of Tennessee to make the news?  Days.  It took days for the rest of the country to find out about it.   
 
Thats all that the title was implying.   
 
@Ace829: And yes I'm serious...And ranty... "

" Haiti earthquake 300,000 dead. Tennessee floods 30 dead.  /end "

...and America gets a ton of shit for Iraq and shit, but we did help Haiti and never asked for anything in return.  We are too nice, and we can rebuild Tennessee ourself.

" @SeriouslyNow: You think I don't understand how lucky I am to be an American?  I understand completely how lucky I am to live in the greatest country in the world and am given more personal freedoms then anywhere else.  One of those freedoms is Speech.  I am using that freedom to share how much I HATE what American society has become. "

" @SeriouslyNow: You think I don't understand how lucky I am to be an American?  I understand completely how lucky I am to live in the greatest country in the world and am given more personal freedoms then anywhere else.  One of those freedoms is Speech.  I am using that freedom to share how much I HATE what American society has become. "

" @JokerClown88:  Great post dude with valid points. I don't agree with the delivery but great post. "

" @JokerClown88:  Great post dude with valid points. I don't agree with the delivery but great post. "

I'm not really sure what to make of your post. I see where you are coming from but I don't think you could be any more ignorant. Allow me to let you in on a little secret. New Orleans and Louisiana as a whole is a mixing pot of races. It's assholes like Kanye West who come on national television after Katrina hit saying that we abandoned the black population in their time of need and a lot of other ignorant shit. To be perfectly honest, you remind me of him. Granted, you hold an opposite opinion than he does but you're just as ignorant for it. Out of the frying pan and into the fire so to speak.
 
I'm from New Orleans. I'm white and lived in a predominately white part of the city.  I lost my home to 12 feet of flooding in Katrina. Ironically, I evacuated to Tennessee the weekend before the storm and it is currently where I reside. I wasn't affected by the recent flooding (thankfully). I'm sorry for the people who lost their homes and lives in Nashville and Haiti. 
 
Why did I tell you all of that? Because I'm fucking frustrated. I'm frustrated with people who speak out so ignorantly on something they know little about. Not everything fits in your "perfect" (read: polar fucking opposite of perfect) definition of the world. Don't absorb everything the media feeds you.

"

We’re a sick, pathetic society at times. Fueled by mis-reporting and underreporting by a lame media that stretches from the USA Today far past Fox News, our culture has ignored the suffering of its fellow citizens while playing right into the narrative of America being a guilty nation and bending over backwards to send money to a wasted piece of God’s earth which has no chance of thriving anytime in our lifetime."

"I have traveled to Tennessee half a dozen times in my life. I have never been to New Orleans or Haiti and plan on never going based solely on the human sludge that has been paraded before us in both places ad nauseum; wretched, vile human beings with their hands out blaming the government while expecting that same government to save them from their miserable, self created rotten existence. The people of Haiti and New Orleans are the exact same people; lazy dirt bags unwilling to take advantage of the endless array of opportunity before them and first in line to blame everyone else for their lot in life and feel entitled to a solution being handed to them.

Tennessee folks, meanwhile, say things like “thank you,” and “sir” or “ma’am.” They shake your hand firmly while looking you in the eye, politely and respectfully disagree with you when there’s dissention and expect nothing from you in return other than kindness and earned respect. Whether they love Jesus or their pick-up trucks they go about their business, most of them barely getting by, but doing it on their own with a sense of pride unknown and unmatched in most parts of America. They neither ask for, nor in most cases, accept hand-outs, demanding to earn everything they achieve. Like so many people in what elitist snobs like to call “flyover country,” they are the salt of the Earth and the heart of the nation and we do everything we can to ignore them, demean them, marginalize them and mock them."

"Give your money to Haiti; I’m sure the despicable despot who runs the country will enjoy using it to smoke a Cuban cigar in his castle. My money is going to Tennessee because they’ve earned it. "

Wow. Just wow.
 
These floods are comparable how? 30 dead = 300,000 in Haiti or 1,800 in New Orleans? 1 billion in damage in Tennessee compared to 14 billion or 80 billion?
 
Those people don't deserved to be helped because they don't say "Sir" or "Ma'am"? And you're basing these judgments on what you've seen on TV, not on actual knowledge because you've said yourself you've never been there and never will go there?
 
Tennessee will be mocked in the future for rebuilding? What?
 
And do you even know what a despot is?
 
The stupidity, ignorance, and self-righteousness of some people is constantly astounding.
 
EDIT: Do you know what Freedom of Speech actually means? I'll tell you what it doesn't mean: the freedom to say what you want on a internet forum without being criticized. Also, many Americans seem very fond of telling everyone that "America is the best in the world." I'm just curious, what are you basing that on?
 
Whenever I hear someone say that I'm reminded of the Lewis Black bit:
"Most people who say that have never even been to another country so how would they know? Other countries could be giving shit away for free! You know what Canada gives away for free? HEALTH INSURANCE!"

Everyone who is affected by some sort of natural disaster deserves help and support. But you are qualifying entire cities of individual peoples based on some sick perception of those societies that you have, which is fairly disturbing. 30 dead in Tennesse is sad and tragic, but 300,000 dead in Haiti is catastrophic.
 

" Haiti earthquake 300,000 dead. Tennessee floods 30 dead.  /end "

" Everyone who is affected by some sort of natural disaster deserves help and support. But you are qualifying entire cities of individual peoples based on some sick perception of those societies that you have, which is fairly disturbing. 30 dead in Tennesse is sad and tragic, but 300,000 dead in Haiti is catastrophic.
 

Location	Population Before	Death Toll	Population After	% of Population Dead
Haiti	Approx. 9,035,000	300,000	Approx. 8,735,000	Approx. 3.23
Tennesse	Approx. 6,215,000	30	Approx. 6,214,970	Approx 0.0005

"

Well, I've been to Haiti and the damage and violence I've witnessed was unimaginable. News isn't based on the class of citizens, but Haitians were generally uneducated as well. It's a matter of overall damage. 30 people dead isn't a big deal, in terms of other terrible things going on. 12 soldiers died in a 90 minute battle last week, did that get coverage? Nope. That's because soldiers die everyday, and no one cares. People die due to weather issues everyday as well, but disasters the wipe out a city or country doesn't happen everyday.

" @fini_fly said:

" Everyone who is affected by some sort of natural disaster deserves help and support. But you are qualifying entire cities of individual peoples based on some sick perception of those societies that you have, which is fairly disturbing. 30 dead in Tennesse is sad and tragic, but 300,000 dead in Haiti is catastrophic.
 

Location	Population Before	Death Toll	Population After	% of Population Dead
Haiti	Approx. 9,035,000	300,000	Approx. 8,735,000	Approx. 3.23
Tennesse	Approx. 6,215,000	30	Approx. 6,214,970	Approx 0.0005

"

This is what we call prioritizing.  The natural disaster that has the highest death toll/ recovery cost is the one you want to take care of first. "

Wow, America bashing and Haiti bashing all in one thread!

There are people who still believe in bullshit like "rights"? Wow.

" @Axxol said:

" @fini_fly said:

" Everyone who is affected by some sort of natural disaster deserves help and support. But you are qualifying entire cities of individual peoples based on some sick perception of those societies that you have, which is fairly disturbing. 30 dead in Tennesse is sad and tragic, but 300,000 dead in Haiti is catastrophic.
 

Location	Population Before	Death Toll	Population After	% of Population Dead
Haiti	Approx. 9,035,000	300,000	Approx. 8,735,000	Approx. 3.23
Tennesse	Approx. 6,215,000	30	Approx. 6,214,970	Approx 0.0005

"

This is what we call prioritizing.  The natural disaster that has the highest death toll/ recovery cost is the one you want to take care of first. "

We all know American lives are worth more, duh.  *please know that is sarcasm* "

" @SeriouslyNow: You think I don't understand how lucky I am to be an American?  I understand completely how lucky I am to live in the greatest country in the world and am given more personal freedoms then anywhere else.  One of those freedoms is Speech.  I am using that freedom to share how much I HATE what American society has become. "

" Wow, America bashing and Haiti bashing all in one thread! "

" @JokerClown88 said:

" @SeriouslyNow: You think I don't understand how lucky I am to be an American?  I understand completely how lucky I am to live in the greatest country in the world and am given more personal freedoms then anywhere else.  One of those freedoms is Speech.  I am using that freedom to share how much I HATE what American society has become. "

So shut up and do something about it.   Bitching on the internet doesn't count as being helpful.  Go take a trip to Tennessee and help those in need, do something...anything other than going on a video game forum and stepping on soapbox and preaching. "

As an American, I don't really care about Tennessee. Yup.

" @Everyones_A_Critic said:

" Wow, America bashing and Haiti bashing all in one thread! "

America bashing? I don't see that anywhere. Unless, you mean the OP bashing on New Orleans, then yes that would still be America bashing. "

" @Ace829 said:

" @Everyones_A_Critic said:

" Wow, America bashing and Haiti bashing all in one thread! "

America bashing? I don't see that anywhere. Unless, you mean the OP bashing on New Orleans, then yes that would still be America bashing. "

I was referencing that New Orleans stuff, and the comments about America's status as "greatest country in the world" and the resounding "LOL's and No's" that were delivered in response. We're not that bad guys! "

" People vacation in haiti.  People party in New Orleans.  Why the fuck would anyone want to go to Tenessee? "

It's always been the US's method of operation to help out everyone else before it helps itself, if it ever even does help itself. Contrary to popular belief, putting your own interests over the interests of others who couldn't give a shit about you doesn't necessarily make you make you a self-centered asshole.

" @Everyones_A_Critic said:

" @Ace829 said:

" @Everyones_A_Critic said:

" Wow, America bashing and Haiti bashing all in one thread! "

America bashing? I don't see that anywhere. Unless, you mean the OP bashing on New Orleans, then yes that would still be America bashing. "

I was referencing that New Orleans stuff, and the comments about America's status as "greatest country in the world" and the resounding "LOL's and No's" that were delivered in response. We're not that bad guys! "

Yes, because stating the obvious is clearly "bashing".  Everyone thinks they live in the "greatest country in the world". No one is right. "

Just to let you guys know, it's people like the OP that make the rest of the world say 'Hey Americans are dicks!'

Reality does not work this way

" ... at the time of this writing the death toll in Tennessee as a result of massive flooding has reached 19 people; not just people but American citizens (unlike, say…Haitians!)...
"

" @Linkyshinks said:

" Months before the disaster that hit Haiti, a BBC news reporter was in the country reporting about the impending disaster of widespread famine. We in the UK saw shocking footage of people fighting over individual grains of rice from the dirt, after aid trucks had passed through. We also saw how families we're cutting up old dried animal skins, that are used traditionally to cover the floors, and boiling them to eat. Despite the fact they have no nutritional value whatsoever. That was before, I dread to think what it was like after...  That's all I need to know. "

Yet that just goes to show you that the money that was sent to them a decade ago was NOT used in the way that it was intended.  A decade ago, $5 billion was a lot of money.  Yet how did the Haitian government use it to help their country?  No one knows because nothing improved. "