U.S.: Wondering

Looking at the presidential palace in Haiti, so huge and white, I can't help but wonder, why is it that dirt poor nations are run by individuals who can live comfortably in such magnificence while their constituents live in hovels? Does the disparity not strike the supporters or the presidents, especially those who spout the populist message? Whores, is what those leaders are. On second thought, whore is too good a term. Pimps. These leaders turn tricks with their people's poverty, and they get huge loans and monetary gifts which they squander, like Aristide who blew $125 million of Haiti's $500 million annual budget on independence celebrations in 2003. He built museums and such instead of building a national waterways so Haitians could have a safe supply of water. While the people cheered Aristide, their children were sickening from drinking human waste-tainted water.