Comments about ‘LDS Church to build temporary housing in Haiti’

that is fine to build housing there but what about the homeless in the usa? folks down town tucson are sleeping all over the ground by the county building and in the desert under tents card board boxes. etc,,, where is the help for the homeless in saltlake? something does not make sense. america is hungey, homeless, and cold, keep this money here in america than help others out side the usa...

The Church is here to help all of God's children. The job market in America is bleak, I will agree, but there are millions in America who simply WILL NOT work, but who rely on the Government to put a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs, and for those who will NOT help themselves, or who refuse to work, I think the money should be sent to those who will appreciate it and use it wisely, than to use it on those who choose to be bums and homeless by choice. The Church has helped our family pay mortgage payments and other debts in the past, when we've lost jobs and been out of work for a few months, in fact, the Ward in our area paid one member's rent for 11 months, and all of his utilites, but when he refused to take a job earning meager wages because he thought he was TOO good for such a low paying job, the Church had to move on to help those who continued to search for jobs and livilihood. Good on 'em I say!

Wouldn't it be better if the church would take, say, 0.1% of the money being put into the mall in downtown Salt Lake City (about $2-3 million) and use that to build better housing than just temporary structures in Haiti? Wouldn't that be more of doing G-D's work than sending temporary housing for 600 families?

It is not the Church's responcibility to build housing in Haiti, it's a gift. Temporary is fine, it is the Governments responcibility for permanent solutions. Political robbery is the problem in Haiti, always has been and has been in the US as well. We need to start voting for better represenatives, rather than the ones who will provide us with shelter when we get too lazy to work. What the LDS spend in Slat Lake, does'nt have anything to do with Haiti. Haiti made its own mess with poor cheap building codes and poor infrastructure to deal with emergencies. Look at the Swiss, they have "Hard shelters" for 100% of their people. Bullet , bomb, earthquake and Nazi proof.