IT was 100% manufactured. Less than a year before the quake,  Hillary clinton Spoke at the Haiti Donors Conference, Begging for money To carry out a wide range of things. They received no where near the amount of money needed to carry out all The desired ventures... until 8 months later when a PNE triggered the earthquake.  It's long, But literally everything she talks about, gets's carried out with quake money.  Here's just one paragraph.   Just think, for $150 we can pay to send one Haitian child to school for a year, or we can immunize 15 children. That is a tiny fraction of the costs of solving these problems if they escalate over time. The United States will target our support toward four areas that President Preval and Prime Minister Pierre-Louis have requested, all of which are essential for national and regional progress.  First, the Haitian people need and deserve to be secure. They must be able to travel safely to work and school, and participate in civic lives without fear of violence. Second, the country needs stronger infrastructure, particularly roads, which are the circulatory system of any robust economy. And going along with the infrastructure needs is the need for jobs. So we can accomplish two things at once: putting people to work, building roads and other infrastructure throughout the country.  Here's the full speech.   Remarks at the Haiti Donors ConferenceSpeech-Hillary Rodham Clinton  Secretary of State- Inter-American Development Bank Washington, DC April 14, 2009