CBS News, world tsunami pledge "HALF A BILLION" dollars...to help

[karlrschneider]

5,000,000 people. So it's ten bucks per person. :grr:

[Bandit]

1. That is what we spend in three days in Iraq

:shrug: As the world looks on.

[bossfish]

2. That would be $100 per

500m divided by 5m

[karlrschneider]

6. Well shit...so much for those 5 years in college......

:eyes: :D

[idiosyncratic]

3. The amount spent in FL was mentioned on NPR today

it exceeded the tsunami aid by Billions!!

FEMA Hurricane Spending in Florida Questioned

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) calls for a congressional investigation into why the Federal Emergency Management Agency spent $29 million of funds meant for hurricane relief in the Miami area, even though that region experienced conditions akin to a thunderstorm.

Scroll down a bit on this page to listen

[Stephanie]

4. It was $20 billion for NYC

[mcscajun]

5. Which NYC never got...

...wait a year and see how much of the funds 'pledged' for these countries actually materializes. ::sigh::

I did the math on my own contribution...it was something like 0.00001 per person (not even factoring in the numbers as they rose). Quite depressing.

[aneerkoinos]

7. More

All together, public and private, closer to a billion now. That's only beginning, for emergency aid, and more is coming. Reconstruction will require billions and billions.