Text 7091, 87 rader
Skriven 2005-01-05 20:57:26 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
   Kommentar till text 6985 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Re: Tsunami Disaster Relief
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Hey, Gary.

Lee obviously likes for America to be embarrassed.  As you point out below, 
Lee ignores the cost of the effort made by the US military.  Another factor 
that Lee ignores is the giving through private charities by the people of 
the US.  But that wouldn't fit his agenda.  Why Lee feels this way I have no 
idea, but it is sad.

 GB> Because another country did more as a percentage of their GNP than we?

 GB> Who is getting the food there now?

 GB> Is the Japanese Navy there in force and the JDF handing out the
 GB> supplies? Is the Japanese Air Force dropping food and medical supplies
 GB> to remote areas? The Indonesian military is not known for its
 GB> humanitarian practices. I can see them risking their lives to save the
 GB> same people they kill, can't you?

 GB> How about the rest of the list?

 GB> Why don't you put the effort forward to include the cost of a battle
 GB> group being there and operating on a large scale and growing? You seem
 GB> to have gone to great pains to work out the math if it looks bad for
 GB> the US, be fair, figure in those costs as well.

 GB> How do we know if the Japanese will even pony it all up? Even the UN
 GB> stated don't get too exited, often nations go back on their pledges. We
 GB> have the example of the 1st Gulf War for that.

 GB> Heck, some of these countries hit ran out into the streets en masse to
 GB> celebrate us getting hit in 9/11.

 GB> I wonder how they would have felt if we emptied our homes celebrating
 GB> their people getting annihilated by an act of God. There are concerns
 GB> that some of these radical groups may decide to take advantage of US
 GB> forces being there to shoot them.

 GB> I'd say we are doing pretty good.

 GB> LEE LOFASO -> ALL wrote:

 LL>> Hello Everybody,

 LL>> Here is an updated look at major government pledges, according
 LL>> to the United Nations and Associated Press bureau reports, towards
 LL>> tsunami disaster relief donations (in millions) -

 LL>> JAPAN                  $500
 LL>> UNITED STATES          $350
 LL>> NORWAY                 $183
 LL>> FRANCE                 $103
 LL>> BRITAIN                $ 95
 LL>> SWEDEN                 $ 75.5
 LL>> SPAIN                  $ 68
 LL>> CANADA                 $ 67
 LL>> DENMARK                $ 66
 LL>> CHINA                  $ 64
 LL>> AUSTRALIA              $ 47
 LL>> NETHERLANDS            $ 32
 LL>> EUROPEAN COMMISSION    $ 31
 LL>> GERMANY                $ 30
 LL>> SWITZERLAND            $ 23.5
 LL>> UNITED ARAB EMIRATES   $ 20

 LL>> Of course, if compiled as a percentage of the GNP of each country,
 LL>> the rankings are much different.  But let's not go there.  It's too
 LL>> embarrassing for Americans.

 LL>> However, we can do a comparison on a per capita basis.  For example,
 LL>> Japan has a population of about 120 million people, and the United
 LL>> States has a population of about 300 million people.  Per capita, that
 LL>> makes Japan spending $4.16 per person for disaster relief, while the
 LL>> United States spends $1.16 per person for disaster relief.  IOW, the
 LL>> Japanese spend four times as much as Americans towards disaster relief
 LL>> for tsunami victims.  The ratio is even worse when comparing
 LL>> Scandinavian countries (such as Norway, Sweden and Denmark), with
 LL>> the United States...

 LL>> --Lee

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