Each American dollar roughly breaks down like this: 42 cents for disaster assistance, 33 cents for U.S. military aid, nine cents for food, nine cents to transport the food, five cents for paying Haitian survivors for recovery efforts, just under one cent to the Haitian government, and about half a cent to the Dominican Republic.
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/65/InvAID.htm
again i want to reiterate: why do we have 20,000 armed troops - trained in combat and in following orders with no morality attached to it - assisting a country that needs doctors, psychologists, and people who actually give a shit? the fact that 1/3 of the aid th