Text 7094, 97 rader
Skriven 2005-01-05 21:13:44 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
   Kommentar till text 7086 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: Re: Tsunami Disaster Relief
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Hey, Jeff.

 GB>> Why is it embarrassing to Americans?

 GB>> Because another country did more as a percentage of their GNP than
 GB>> 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
 GB>> supplies to remote areas? The Indonesian military is not known for
 GB>> its humanitarian practices. I can see them risking their lives to
 GB>> save the 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
 GB>> seem to have gone to great pains to work out the math if it looks bad
 GB>> for 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.
 GB>> We have the example of the 1st Gulf War for that.

 GB>> Heck, some of these countries hit ran out into the streets en masse
 GB>> to 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.

 JB> If a democrat were president, this wouldn't be an issue.  Folks like
 JB> Lee are only out to make the president and the US look bad.  They
 JB> forget (except when convenient) that we spend close to $500B a year on
 JB> the military to keep the world safe.  As for being embarrassed or
 JB> ashamed, liberals live in that state.  They are ashamed to be US
 JB> citizens.

Yep.  A liberal is almost apologetic for existing.


 GB>> LEE LOFASO -> ALL wrote:

 GB>> LL> Hello Everybody,

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

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

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

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

 GB>> LL> --Lee

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