Tsunami relief: Challenge to USA
OK, America, here's a challenge from your Aussie cousins. Australia has just pledged one billion dollars to tsunami relief in SE Asia, and more than $100 has been donated privately. Australia has one-seventeenth the population of the USA, whose government has, in response to foreign and domestic outrage, upped its offer to $450 million. Less than half the salary of the CEO of any US corporation such as Disney.
Now, even though US and Australian money will all end up being tied aid (ie, Western corporations will get the contracts, impose the rules, and superimpose inappropriate modes of agriculture and industry, etc), the money is urgently needed in the short term for people without food, water and shelter. So, how about it, Messrs Bush, Rumsfeld and Bowell? We'd all love to see the US match Australia with a pledge of $17 billion, which is the cost of two months illegal occupation of Iraq alone.
Now, Mr President, I know you're gonna say, "Hell, SE Asia is in the Aussies' region, not ours". Hey, that didn't seem to matter with Vietnam! Come on, Dubya, put your money where your mouth is ... you know, "The greatest country on earth" and all that jazz. People are people, even the tinted Mooslim ones.
OK, America, here's a challenge from your Aussie cousins. Australia has just pledged one billion dollars to tsunami relief in SE Asia, and more than $100 has been donated privately. Australia has one-seventeenth the population of the USA, whose government has, in response to foreign and domestic outrage, upped its offer to $450 million. Less than half the salary of the CEO of any US corporation such as Disney.
Now, even though US and Australian money will all end up being tied aid (ie, Western corporations will get the contracts, impose the rules, and superimpose inappropriate modes of agriculture and industry, etc), the money is urgently needed in the short term for people without food, water and shelter. So, how about it, Messrs Bush, Rumsfeld and Bowell? We'd all love to see the US match Australia with a pledge of $17 billion, which is the cost of two months illegal occupation of Iraq alone.
Now, Mr President, I know you're gonna say, "Hell, SE Asia is in the Aussies' region, not ours". Hey, that didn't seem to matter with Vietnam! Come on, Dubya, put your money where your mouth is ... you know, "The greatest country on earth" and all that jazz. People are people, even the tinted Mooslim ones.
"An earthquake that killed 31,000 people in the Iranian city of Bam exactly a year before the tsunamis brought $1.3 billion in promises of which only $22 million became reality."
Source: Annan wants tsunami aid pledges honoured
Pip Wilson posted item above at 12:48 PM | Permalink
2 Comments:
No matter what happens in this world you people will find a way to blame America, or find a way to make everything look like they're doing the world wrong.
WAKE UP and realise without America the world is truly stuffed. The first clip I saw from the disaster zone (from just 6 hours after the disaster) had all these bleeding heart little lefties in the aid organisations crying where is America ... where is America. Now that America is there and helping not just with cash but giving enormous logistical support (a carrier battle group of 12 ships and dozens of helicopters doesnt come cheap). Oh but they say America was too slow to react ! CRAP ! It does take time to sail a CBG into an area ... it's not like it's teletransported there magically.
Oh and before you go down the usual left wing path and call me a right wing nazi.... lookie here .... I've donated $50 so far and have set up $25 per month as a salary deduction.
Sadly this money is likely to come back at us in the form of bullets, plastic explosives and fertilisers bombs when in about 2-3 years time the radical groups (which your words seem to support) start firing bullets at our aid workers, troops, and bombing innocent tourists.
And where is Mr Farencrap 911 .... Michael Moore .... think of the millions he made but ... oh no .... he's not giving a cent is he.
Now in Iraq ... do you support Saddam Hussein killing people ... would you ... because they dared to have a different thought to him ?
Whats happening there ? You go in to help a country and they start killing you.
Points 1 2 and 3 all proven ....
OK, Anonymous, you win. Nobody could argue with logic like that.
By the way, are you any relation to the Anonymouses of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia? Prob not, it's a big world. Anyway, if you are, would you tell Charlie A. that he still owes me $20? Ta, mate.
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