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Some expect Haiti's 7.0 earthquake death toll to reach over 200,000 lives. Why the high death toll? Northern California's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was more violent, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, resulting in 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake measured 7.8 on the Richter scale, about eight times more violent than Haiti's, and cost 3,000 lives.
As tragic as the Haitian calamity is, it is merely symptomatic of a far deeper tragedy that's completely ignored, namely self-inflicted poverty. The reason why natural disasters take fewer lives in our country is because we have greater wealth....
Haiti's Avoidable Death Toll
However, who is first on the scene USA and not just this time remember the Hurricanes before this we were there too, even though a lot of us who travel there on vacation have horror stories of being ripped repeatedly, Americans expecially the vilified Catholic Church Groups have continued to send everything including donations of money, food and clothing to that impoverished Nation, a lot of it taken by corrupt so-called law enforcement officials and sold on the black market.
Just ask ex-Prime Minister Gerard Letortue who called the $100...