Whats so wasteful about giving money to help an immediate need? Hundreds of people in haiti are dying because they got hit by three hurricanes. We haven't even had one in years. It's not like the government is just giving away money these people have real needs. Its not only trini people who know how to suffer, right now people are living on thier roofs to escape the flood waters, hurricanes have destroyed or affected 80 percent of the houses in turks and caicos. Without immediate help people will die- thats why they call these things disasters. Money is the easiest thing to convert into fresh food water and medical supplies, it might look alot but these things really need hundreds of millions of dollars to work effectively. People can only do so much to help themselves, sooner or later they will need help and its only human to want to help. We have to get over the notion that only we have problems. Check in india 9 million people were flooded out of thier homes and thats who survived, we dont even have that much people in trinidad, but when when rain flood our house out we complian, its not like our people are drowning and cant help themselves. I think its rather selfish to assume only we have good things happen to us.
Do a google search see what hurricanes really do to people, not just countries, people suffer when stuff like this happens.