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From the page: "Schneiderman's comments point toward an ongoing and serious problem with how larger people are perceived in our society and how qualities that have nothing to do with body size - such as the ability to lead - continue being tied to body size."

From the page: "â€Aid did some good and saved some lives early on but ultimately led to more division, more cynicism and made the mercantile class even richer,†says Mark Schuller, a U.S. anthropologist who teaches in Haiti. â€In the end the way the aid was delivered, the lack of co-ordination and the lack of respect for the Haitian people did more harm than good. It would have been better if they had not come.â€

Schuller, who spends $375 per month renting his three-bedroom flat, is critical of humanitarian staff earning up to ten times local salaries, with big cars, drivers and $2,500-a-month housing allowances. Rents have soared since the quake.

Haitiâ€s prime minister has pointed out that 40 per cent of aid money supports the foreigners handing it out. Undoubtedly, huge sums have been wasted: for example, humanitarian groups paid double local rates for lorry loads of water.

One car dealer sold more than 250 Toyota Land Cruisers a month at £40,000 each. â€You see traffic jams at Friday lunchtime of all the white NGO and UN four-wheel drives heading off early to the beaches for the weekend,†said one Irish aid worker. â€It makes me sick.â€"

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From the page: "Mitch Daniels ... Isn't he the former Bush budget director who said the Iraq War would cost $50 billion when it ended up costing $3 trillion? The bureaucrat who promoted the Bush tax cuts when we were fighting two wars? The one whose budget projections were so fraudulent that he predicted federal surpluses in 2004 and 2005? Why the hell should we listen to him criticize Obama?"