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After seeing problems with the Red Cross response local storm relief (example: 40% of available emergency vehicles used for press conferences), reporter Laura Sullivan decided to look into what happened in Haiti, where the American Red Cross collected a whopping $500 million in donations.
Her report is damning. The largest proportion of these were to go into housing. The Red Cross built...wait for it...six houses. In one area where the Red Cross promised to spend $24 million, and even printed a brochure exclaiming over all that they accomplished, the local residents are unaware of any Red Cross activity.
Meanwhile the Red Cross refuses to provide more than a very high level overview of their projects. No financial figures are provided that would allow one to figure out how much of that $500 million was actually spent on relief, and where the rest of it went.
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @09:16AM
Perhaps we should build something we can trust. I propose a machine that 3d prints many of the parts needed for drones, and that an army of the machines be setup. This first batch will be doomed to failure, acceptable. They will be destroyed and rebuilt towards purpose, they will be destroyed until they can create a house. They will be destroyed until we find their physical limits and push past them. Once our savior has been assembled and is operational, we place our printer at location, and the system begins. Homes will automatically be assembled in massive scale all at once via an army of drones.
We need this technology to build habitation on the moon and mars for future mining operations, and we need it for disaster relief, and down the line for regular non-emergency home creation.
Had we invested in something like this that could really get the job done instead of the red cross, the job would be done now, we'd have exactly our real solution.
It is time to stop giving our money to charlatans, I do not have the means or knowledge to make this project work, but it is the absolute solution and we all know it. The system cannot help but build houses, and there are no humans, no greed, and no issues with bullshit cronyism, nepotism, and corruption.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday June 09 2015, @11:05PM
Yeah, an army of drones couldn't be used for any nefarious purposes . . . seriously though, the world is a lot more complicated than that.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"