$40 million for the inauguration...

[SHRED]

and how much for the tsunami victims?

[eleonora]

1. we need to ask these guys to contribute

Former Enron president Richard D. Kinder
Northrop Grumman defense contractor and shipbuilding company
Altria, the parent company of tobacco giant Philip Morris
Dell Computer founder Michael S. Dell
Texas oilman and corporate takeover specialist T. Boone Pickens
ExxonMobil Corp.
Sallie Mae Inc.
United Technologies Corp., a unit of which manufactures Army Black Hawk helicopters
Southern Co. The utility company.
Stephens Group Inc., a Little Rock venture capital company.

[kdmorris]

2. $35 Million

And I can't even talk about it without ranting. We spent BILLIONS of dollars destroying a country and asked for BILLIONS to rebuild. That's only ONE country. And all we can come up with for the countries involved in this disaster is $35 MILLION ($20 Million of which appears to be a loan)? I am so deeply ashamed and embarrassed.

In Florida, we received at least 12 BILLION dollars after the hurricanes. Are our lives worth so much more than a Bangladeshi? A Thai? A Sri Lankan? And without prompt aid in those countries, many more seem destined to die of diseases brought on by their infrastructure being ripped apart.

EDIT: Changed my original amount of Hurricane Aid to Florida.. I was incredibly low in my estimate, according to USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-09-27-bush-hurricane-aid_x.htm)

[ReelBigSpikey]

3. Shameful

This isn't my idea of moral values. We could help save thousands from disease, not to mention rebuild their tattered lives. Every life counts. We can do more.