Macbeth: America's Worst Disaster

“America’s Worst Disaster”
People often have so much going on we forgot to see the things in front of us. The people of Red cross are creating a modern day Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Similarly to that of Macbeth who can do anything without repercussions. An organization that comes to mind or at least should is the Red Cross. Whether it is lying directly to media, scamming millions from homes, or corruption in major events like Haiti. To start off after raising over half a billion dollars for a recovery effort. A tremendous amount of money, Red Cross made a promise of creating homes for 130,000 people. Making even less than an abysmal effort, they created 6 homes. Not even “all the perfumes of Arabia” (page 163) could wash away the stench of the mess they made. Instead of building homes they created behemoths of metal sheet and tarp. Red Cross patted themselves on the back for this nonexistent effort saying “Millions of Haitians are safer, healthier, more resilient” which is an outright lie backed with no proof.

“Fair is foul and foul is fair” (page 8) in the imaginary world that Red Cross has put itself. They attempt justify such heinous acts in the spotlight of the media. “The donations to the Red Cross helped the group erase its more-than $100 million deficit.” It should be mentioned, that they accumulated this debt through misspending millions. On things such as paid vacations and having banquets to which the Haitian people were not even allowed into. Red Cross claims most of the money went away because hiring translators and miscommunication with local haitians. Yet organizations who faced the same issues, were able to make over 9,000