Death toll at 33,000

[Nickatilynx]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Dec 28 2004, 08:38 AM
I read it is approaching 45k dead.

The US always helps, we are normally the first and most charitable country. No other country can match the aid we have sent around the world since the 1940s.

It is sadd what happened. The scientists and others knew of the earthquake, there was time to warn people on the beaches, and near the water that the wave was coming - but it did not happen.

Lots of people actually CAME to the sea because word got out about all the wierd movements in the water. :-(

I heard a guy that said on CNN that the US donates less than a tenth of 1% of its wealth to humanitarian Aid....

So the US isn't that charitable according to him

[JoesHO]

what are your thoughts on this?

as the world leader do we set an example? pay the highest share? or do we just let them sort it out on their own?

[Mike AI]

I read it is approaching 45k dead.

The US always helps, we are normally the first and most charitable country. No other country can match the aid we have sent around the world since the 1940s.

It is sadd what happened. The scientists and others knew of the earthquake, there was time to warn people on the beaches, and near the water that the wave was coming - but it did not happen.

Lots of people actually CAME to the sea because word got out about all the wierd movements in the water. :-(

[NickPapageorgio]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Dec 28 2004, 08:38 AM
I read it is approaching 45k dead.

The US always helps, we are normally the first and most charitable country. No other country can match the aid we have sent around the world since the 1940s.

It is sadd what happened. The scientists and others knew of the earthquake, there was time to warn people on the beaches, and near the water that the wave was coming - but it did not happen.

Lots of people actually CAME to the sea because word got out about all the wierd movements in the water. :-(

Wow I hadn't heard that yet. If that is the case then that's fucked up for real.

[Nickatilynx]

Yes , I do , cause I chexcked it out...

here are the number in which we trust...

Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 2000 to 2003 ODA in U.S. Dollars
(Millions) ODA as GNP Percentage
Country 2000 2001 2002 2003 2000 2001 2002 2003
1. Norway 1,264 1,346 1,746 2,043 0.8 0.83 0.91 0.92
2. Denmark 1,664 1,599 1,632 1,747 1.06 1.01 0.96 0.84
3. Netherlands 3,075 3,155 3,377 4,059 0.82 0.82 0.82 0.81
4. Luxembourg 116 142 143 189 0.7 0.8 0.78 0.8
5. Sweden 1,813 1,576 1,754 2,100 0.81 0.76 0.74 0.7
6. Belgium 812 866 1,061 1,887 0.36 0.37 0.42 0.61
7. Ireland 239 285 397 510 0.3 0.33 0.41 0.41
8. France 4,221 4,293 5,182 7,337 0.33 0.34 0.36 0.41
9. Switzerland 888 908 933 1,297 0.34 0.34 0.32 0.38
10. United Kingdom 4,458 4,659 4,749 6,166 0.31 0.32 0.3 0.34
11. Finland 371 389 466 556 0.31 0.33 0.35 0.34
12. Germany 5,034 4,879 5,359 6,694 0.27 0.27 0.27 0.28
13. Canada 1,722 1,572 2,013 2,209 0.25 0.23 0.28 0.26
14. Spain 1,321 1,748 1,608 2,030 0.24 0.3 0.25 0.25
15. Australia 995 852 962 1,237 0.27 0.25 0.25 0.25
16. New Zealand 116 111 124 169 0.26 0.25 0.23 0.23
17. Portugal 261 267 282 298 0.26 0.25 0.24 0.21
18. Greece 216 194 295 356 0.19 0.19 0.22 0.21
19. Japan 13,062 9,678 9,220 8,911 0.27 0.23 0.23 0.2
20. Austria 461 457 475 503 0.25 0.25 0.23 0.2
21. Italy 1,368 1,493 2,313 2,393 0.13 0.14 0.2 0.16
22. United States 9,581 10,884 12,900 15,791 0.1 0.11 0.12 0.14
Source: OECD Web site


If you deduct the foreign aid given to countries that the US is at war with...it drops significantly.

Oh and remeber $600m in foriegn aid was given to Pakistan....anyone remember why?

[Nickatilynx]

So Mike put down the flag for a while and rejoin the real world.


"What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it."

[Nickatilynx]

So if I give $1 million to a guy whose house I destroyed , and $20,000 to the next door neighbour who let me use his tools and yard for access , I'm a chartiable guy?

[JoesHO]

not only is the death toll high, but the survivors will have no easy road either

over 2 million homeless they say

[Nickatilynx]

How much was the house worth?

To him?

Everything , it was his home.

[Nickatilynx]

What if the 10,000 was no strings attached..nada..

and the Million was to pretty much repair the damage the giver had already cost.


To use Colin's example..

Bill Gates giving a 100m to a lukemia research Hospital. Thats awesome.

However what if Bill , or Gatesy as I like to call him , had in the weeks preceeding found out through his inteligence network , a guy he met in a pub called Mike ,that the hospital in question had without a doubt been manufaturing anthrax to drop on the Microsoft compound.

And in fact a couple of years ago , a guy who may well have been a staff member of that hospital , or at least visited it once, as an outpatient, had indeed , well may have been involved in a people in the compound getting the flu.

So in light of these revelations , Gatesy blew the hospital to Kingdom come.

It was worth around 500m before this.

Additionally Gatesy still has some of his programers staying and overseeing the building of the new hospital despite the fact 87% of the hospital staff want all his people to leave.


;-)))

[Mike AI]

Originally posted by Nickatilynx+Dec 28 2004, 11:03 AM-->