In President Bush's 2007 budget, he has intentionally decreased the amount of foriegn aid to Haiti. No doubt this aid-reducion is due to growing pressures to fund his other international endeavors. A large majority of the aid that the Bush Administration has alotted, however, is targeted toward HIV/AIDS and anti-drug trafficing initatives. This is wonderful, but the key to combating all of the problems that Haiti faces are not the funneling of money into AIDS programs and anti-drug campaigns, but the creation of industry and building of an adequate infrastructure that enables Haiti to become ecomomically stable and finacially independent. If the Bush administration really wants to help Haiti stand on its on two feet (and reduce AIDS and drug traficing in its own country), the U.S. must work at supplying the adequate economic stability that countries need to prosper. The key to Haiti's political stability is the economic prosperity of that nation! The Haitian people need true help at creating this, not frugal self-interest attempts to scath over U.S. social problems. The only way to solve U.S. problems is to combat the international war on poverty. Haiti is a beautiful country that has as much potential at industry and tourism as any Caribbean nation. But who wants to go there when that nation is marred by the title, "the poorest nation in the western hemisphere?"