Contributions and Aid Continue to Flow to Katrina from World, Internet, Hollywood

[dlinkwit27]

(not direct quotes, just a list)


Eurpope is sending the US 60 million barrles of oil from their reserves.
Autralia donated $7.7 million US to the American Red Cross.
Castro has been reported to had offered to send over doctors.
Japan donated $200,000 to the ARC and has offered 300k$ worth of aid in the form of tents and generators. Germany has ffered aid on request.
The tiny country of Sri Lanka, which was devestated by the DEC 26 tsunami, has donated $25,000 US to the ARC
Amazon.com and Google have raised nearly $5 million to go directly to the ARC
Hillary Duff donated 250,000$ to the ARC and $50,000 to the USA Harvest
Nicoloas Cage donates $1 million
NFL donated $1 million



http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/02/katrina.world/index.html
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2005-09-02T142427Z_01_EIC251761_RTRUKOC_0_UK-ENERGY-KATRINA-EUROPE.xml
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/paypage/PELYGQVJ8Q7IB/103-4024388-6836662
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hilary-Duff-Donates-250-000-To-Katrina-s-Victims-7553.shtml

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can a mod change the title to "Contributions, Aid Continue to Flow to Katrina from World, Internet, Hollywood" I butchered the spelling there.

[mysterious_w]

So Hilary Duff gave 12x as much as the whole country of Sri Lanka. Don't get me wrong, I'm not angry at Sri Lanka, I'm mad that she is somehow rich enough to do that.

[SSJ4 Gogitta]

Wonder how many zero's will be in Bill Gate's donation...

[tuckerm]

its about flippin time.

we've helped so much with aid and support and even the people sent stuff over there its about time they help us.

[mysterious_w]

Oi, calm down there matey, you are the richest country in the world, should you be relying on smaller, sometimes hell of a lot poorer states to bail you out?

[tuckerm]

no but japan, europe and other larger countrys should help!
we prolly helped them a lot of times that im not aware of!

being rich doenst mean anything.
we have our debts to.

[gaekwad2]

You really should take another look at foreign aid statistics.

Sure you have your debt, but that's mainly caused by your enormous trade deficit and overblown military spending.

[mysterious_w]

Please, do some research before giving an argument, although I did get a good laugh out of
we prolly helped them a lot of times that im not aware of!

Being rich does mean something.. you have money to spend on this type of thing, unlike somewhere lke Sri Lanka

[tuckerm]

no one called sri lanka to donate.
i wouldnt of took it perosnally.

but i think europe can do better than oil.

i like what germany did thats thinking offering it if we need it thats what countrys should do.

[ElChevelle]

Originally posted by dlinkwit27
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can a mod change the title to "Contributions, Aid Continue to Flow to Katrina from World, Internet, Hollywood" I butchered the spelling there.

Butchering unbutchered.

Notice how much of the money went to the Red Cross?

Was because the government refused the aid of many countries.
We all appreciate the offerings of so many and I was happy to donate what I had to the tsunamis but I'm still scratching my head as to why we keep Cuba on the other side of the fence after all these years.

[Evil Lu]

Am I wrong in thinking that America sent money and aid to the tsunami folk quicker than they've helped out their own?
If this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4154791.stm is correct then it looks like I was right. However I cannot really go by news stories, especially with the recent conflicting agendas.

[tuckerm]

the fact is thats over seas and just money.
bush already pledged money and its not needed quite yet...food\supplys\rescue\law and order is needed right now...the money is there for them now but its not needed...with the tusnami we sent money but you didnt see sri lanka spend it in a day.

[rockouthippie]

Originally posted by ElChevelle
I'm still scratching my head as to why we keep Cuba on the other side of the fence after all these years.

.... a generation of exiled, formerly rich Cubans and american banks who formerly owned the country.... also attacking Grenada might have something to do with it.

The way to fix Cuba would be to invade it. I think we've done enough of that invading foreign countries for a while.

:D

[ElChevelle]

I just want us to be friends so I can go bang their bitches and smoke their cigars:p