Tsunami - Is 1% of the Aid Given To Florida Hurricane Too Much?

[taquinas101]

After all, the federal government pledged about $12 billion in aid for the hurricanes that hit the gulf/atlantic area. 1% is $120 million. Of course, perhaps Bush is thinking that the tidal wave did not hit any red states. Thus, the U.S.'s initial pledge of aid is about 0.1% of the disaster relief the U.S. spent on the hurricanes.

I am almost afraid to hear or read Rush Limbaugh and company talk about their outrage over the outrage about the stinginess of the U.S. Perhaps they will complain "Where were the offers of international aid when the U.S. was being hit with the hurricanes?"

[ClearMessage]

1. Sri Lankans can't vote for Bush

Floridians can.

call me cynical.

[gumby]

2. All Your Treasury Belong To The BFEE.

Didn't everyone know this already?

[shraby]

3. Maybe they should have told Bush

that Sri Lanka is in the Gulf of Mexico..and Malaysia is part of the United States. He wouldn't know the difference.

[ConsAreLiars]

4. Helping millions survive, worth less than the circus inauguaramus

scheduled for 1/20/05. Killing 100,000 innocents in Iraq is worth a couple hundred billion; helping a couple million survive and recover from a natural disaster is worth next to nothing. Yup, these are the true values we in Bushco's America show to the world. "They hate us for our freedoms." ??? What an asshole! They (sane people and even insane CIA creations like Bin Laden) hate US corporatism and imperialism for what it does.

[Paulie]

5. Help brown people?

I thought we only bombed them???? :confused:

/scarcasm

[Florida_Geek]

6. lot of Brown ppl in Florida but big difference

they are voters.

[AliciaKeyedUp]

7. They are also taxpayers

I'm all for helping the victims here, but there are limits. We can't solve all the world's problems. We shouldn't try. We have many problems here. Poverty. Unemployment. Environmental issues. Aging roads.

[RetroLounge]

11. So explain the 40 million for the Inauguration?

Is that more important than helping the heathen brown people?

:shrug:

RL

[AliciaKeyedUp]

13. Screw the innaugural

But I can think of tons of ways to spend it, not just on tsunami victims.

[illflem]

8. Screw the government

donate money for disaster relief on your own rather than bitch about bush not doing it.

[kcwayne]

9. The US is stingy and hard hearted, contrary to what propaganda we swallow

about being a great country embued with humanitarian values.

Among the world's two dozen wealthiest countries, the United States often is among the lowest in donors per capita for official development assistance worldwide, even though the totals are larger. According to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development of 30 wealthy nations, the United States gives the least -- at 0.14 percent of its gross national product, compared with Norway, which gives the most at 0.92 percent.

Link

The link requires registration at the Washington Post, but you can get to the article through Buzzflash for now, it is the main headline article.

[taquinas101]

10. Sugestion To Rove - How to Convince Bush To Contribute

An easy way to convince Bush to provide more relief is to follow the Iraq model. Bush pledges $100 million or so in aid, which will then be spent on infrastructure with Bush friendly contractors such as Haliburton doing the work. Bush gets the good publicity AND the corporate kickbacks necessary to grease the wheels of the current administration. That way, more relief is provided by the U.S. and Bush and Co. get the corporate kick backs necessary to convince them to cough more dough. Its the closest thing to a win-win in today's environment.

[jimfromthebronx10469]

12. suggestion to bush...

mr. president we call upon you to ask your saudi friends to immeadiately create a 2 billion dollar fund to help aid the relief of disaster victims..2 billion is a mere pittance and think of the pr.you would get..not to forget saudi's are muslims too...:smoke:

[ChairOne]

14. I would love it if bush was shamed by....

... the total of individual donations being more than what bush offers...

At least that would send a clear signal that the stinginess was only on the part of the republican theocracy, and not affiliated with Americans at large...

[kerrygoddess]

15. It's an outrage

Relief efforts from around the globe are pouring in. Within a few short hours, many websites and blogs including LUTD were posting lists of organizations taking donations for the tsunami relief efforts. MSNBC reports that, “Philanthropy both global and grassroots” has pledged $260 million to the relief effort.

A little late to the effort, George W. Bush, who is vacationing in Texas, pledged today that $35 million would be made available for aid to the Asia tsunami victims. Critics say that billions of dollars will be needed for the area. Last October Congress approved $13.6 billion in domestic hurricane assistance, most going to Florida.

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=175

[Bozita]

16. Canada's giving $40,000,000 -- That's $5 mil more than the US

link to LBN thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1108208

[ebayfool]

17. You called it, taquinas101! Scarborough just started the whine fest.

I am almost afraid to hear or read Rush Limbaugh and company talk about their outrage over the outrage about the stinginess of the U.S. Perhaps they will complain "Where were the offers of international aid when the U.S. was being hit with the hurricanes?"


He used almost those exact words, as well! Gack - you'd think he was trolling beneath the surface on DU.
:7 LOL