Hurricane Relief v tsunami relief

[CHIZZY]

Originally posted by Deadly Hamster
I really don\'t know much about the looting situation but from what i\'ve seen most stolen objects relate to food, and food relates to survival. I Don\'t think anyone is stealing HDTVs that are submerged in water.

A customer of ours had a pawn shop in the french quarter that had a quarter million $\'s worth of wepaons stolen. I hear they\'re yummy with mustard. I also love the shots of the brothers with armloads of basketball shoes running down the street.

[nO-One]

Originally posted by CHIZZY
Iceland is sending 500 lbs of rotten shark "delicacy"

you better belive it, along with some nice Lýsi (nice liquid fish fat with some cod liver oil)

It\'s good for you

Disaster assistance in the form of monetary payments is supposed to be given with NO THOUGHT OR EXPECTATION OF COMPENSATION.  It\'s a donation from "the goodness of our hearts."  You people are a bunch of greedy bastards.  You seem to think "We gave to you, now you give to us so we\'ll be even."  It doesn\'t work like that.

The SE Asian countries needed our assistance after the Tsunami.  We don\'t need other country\'s assistance now because this disaster is not the same scale as the Tsunami, and we are a rich country.  We would be richer if we didn\'t give away our public funds on corporate welfare and pork barrel schemes of various types.  

If other countries want to lend their expertise by sending rescue teams or engineers, that kind of assistance would be very appropriate.  However, we don\'t need other countries money just because we gave them some money in the past.  That is really stupid.

[MPTheory]

I posted a topic on my forum that for every item purchased on my site, I\'m gonna donate a dollar to a hurricane fund. Might not be much, but I guess every little bit helps

Well I\'m sure were greatful of iceland\'s donations.....but to be honest, that is the most disguisting food they could possibly donate.

Crazy Europeans....

[nO-One]

Originally posted by cloud345
Well I\'m sure were greatful of iceland\'s donations.....but to be honest, that is the most disguisting food they could possibly donate.

Crazy Europeans....

there in lies the joke

*hopes to see samwise bleeding on the street*

Oh you have money?  I guess I don\'t need to help you.  

The initial point is that the U.S. gets bitched about for offering our support but when one of the worst natural disasters in our history hits nobody thinks twice about giving aid.  Being greedy has nothing to do with it, it would just be nice to hear that some countries are willing to lend a hand in time of need.  You don\'t hear about it in the news, at all.  It is nice to hear that iceland is helping and that canada is sending help.  It shows that people care.

I guess I\'m insane right sam?

[Living-In-Clip]

Originally posted by Coredweller
Disaster assistance in the form of monetary payments is supposed to be given with NO THOUGHT OR EXPECTATION OF COMPENSATION.  It\'s a donation from "the goodness of our hearts."  You people are a bunch of greedy bastards.  You seem to think "We gave to you, now you give to us so we\'ll be even."  It doesn\'t work like that.

The SE Asian countries needed our assistance after the Tsunami.  We don\'t need other country\'s assistance now because this disaster is not the same scale as the Tsunami, and we are a rich country.  We would be richer if we didn\'t give away our public funds on corporate welfare and pork barrel schemes of various types.  

If other countries want to lend their expertise by sending rescue teams or engineers, that kind of assistance would be very appropriate.  However, we don\'t need other countries money just because we gave them some money in the past.  That is really stupid.

Thank God somebody got the point.

Originally posted by Phil
Being greedy has nothing to do with it, it would just be nice to hear that some countries are willing to lend a hand in time of need.  You don\'t hear about it in the news, at all.  It is nice to hear that iceland is helping and that canada is sending help.  It shows that people care.

I guess I\'m insane right sam?

So what you\'re saying is it doesn\'t matter that we don\'t need money to support the survivors of this disaster.  Other countries should send the money anyway, as a token of respect.

It sounds like we\'re a goddamn mafia family.  I don\'t think we need other countries giving us money to prove they fear and respect us.  I\'m not that insecure.

[Jumpman]

canada is sending assistance i think, like 2 dollars in the mail

http://www.canada.com/national/features/extreme_weather/story.html?id=4f09b3a0-89dc-43d9-8f71-91f92d228d1d

[Living-In-Clip]

And let\'s not forget - this is something we knew could happen. We sat ourselves up for this one.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282151.html

What do you expect when you build a city below sea level as bad as New Orleans?

The secretary of homeland security gave a press conference earlier today and he mentioned that a lot of countries have offered support. He only mentioned Canada, England, and Germany but he said there were many more.

if we seek assistance from outside, it makes us no better then the rest

now is the time for isolationism

Originally posted by Coredweller
So what you\'re saying is it doesn\'t matter that we don\'t need money to support the survivors of this disaster.  Other countries should send the money anyway, as a token of respect.

It sounds like we\'re a goddamn mafia family.  I don\'t think we need other countries giving us money to prove they fear and respect us.  I\'m not that insecure.

Where in that sentence did he say sending money?  Oh snap, he didn\'t.

Originally posted by Jumpman
canada is sending assistance i think, like 2 dollars in the mail

http://www.canada.com/national/features/extreme_weather/story.html?id=4f09b3a0-89dc-43d9-8f71-91f92d228d1d

As long as it isn\'t Canadian money.

Originally posted by Samwise
Uh... I\'m with every  one sane here.

The US = rich, rich country
Thailand = 3rd world country (and 200,000 dead)

So tell me why RICH and NOT MANY PEOPLE DEAD = aid from poorer countries?

I\'m kinda baffled you\'d even think this. However, I could imagine sending ppl and other stuff to help out, but money? Hell, you use more in Iraq in a month than it\'d take to rebuild...

word

Originally posted by Phil
so you have to be poor to receive aid when in time of need?  We\'re not asking thailand for money, but a little support from europe would be nice.

Oh and I\'d love to see a quote with that little Iraq war stat you pulled out of your ass.

http://costofwar.com/