2,200 killed in tidal wave

by **flapjack** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:04 pm

Originally posted by /vid_restart
btw., but expecting gratitude in such a situation is just sad.
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And using the situation to further your Anti-American sentiment is ......

by **Sayntfuu** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 4:52 pm

American GOVERNMENT aid: $385 million.
American Citizen donations: $45 million.

So all told the US have given $430 million not counting the assistance of the Pentagon through choppers and airlifting capability.

A good BBC article on this subject: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4143459.stm

A CBC breakdown of aid given: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/asia_earthquake/numbers.html

by **:UnclSxyPants:** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:44 pm

who the fuck cares how gives the most, who the fuck cares who gives at all, i didnt donate anything, and i dont plan to, yah its a terrible thing that happened to those people but im not going to let it effect my everyday life, shit happens and yah it sucks but im not gona waste any time pitying them

by **Tour of Duty** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:11 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/05/asia.tsunami/index.html

and I can tell you guys that the people of the Netherlands (16 million people) collected 112,144 million Euro's only on this day!

by **Savant** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:26 pm

Ive heard that there are "gangs" that are kidnapping surviving children to do God knows what, if caught these ppl should be executed on the spot, thats some real sick shit and everyones outrage, here and there should be focused on that

by **King** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:34 pm

yeah i saw reports on that... that shit is seriously f-ed up. And people say westerners have fucked up lifestyes. :mad:

by **shockwave203** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:30 pm

Originally posted by :UnclSxyPants:
who the fuck cares how gives the most, who the fuck cares who gives at all, i didnt donate anything, and i dont plan to, yah its a terrible thing that happened to those people but im not going to let it effect my everyday life, shit happens and yah it sucks but im not gona waste any time pitying them

you're a fricken moron. no one ever asked you to pity them, and no one asked you to be an asshole. would you have said something like this after 9/11?

:tard:

by **Davis** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:50 pm

Well... Congrads on the 10 page thread. Never, in human history have put together such a....... Helping hand, 430 mil........ you can buy a wholeeeeeeeee lots of soup with that pile.

It id good to see that america is dishing out that much money though. Yes, this is most likely, the worst disater of the Decade. Some of which being coal mines collapsing, the asteriod exploding over a russian in early 1900's 1908 i think, falttening tree's like tooth picks, it exploded in mid air, hense no crater.

Use-less jibber jabber, save it for the bar, the rummies will tell the tale in which you tenny boppers would not ever dare to dream.

Well, sorry to break it to you, where all stuck on tis 3rd rock from the sun..... lets make the most of it?

by **Davis** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:00 pm

Originally posted by shockwave203
you're a fricken moron. no one ever asked you to pity them, and no one asked you to be an asshole. would you have said something like this after 9/11?

I was actually going to say something regarding 9/11. Like something along the line's of..... it's about god damn time actual provoked war "suisde gta... or gtp or wtf it is" ha made it to the american frontlines. Think about, when in the near future is america, going to exsperiance,

well.................. 1.............. 2..................3...........

WTF are we fighting for......oil?..................screw it i don't give a damn............. HELL<, next stop is da viet da nang.

well............... 6.................7...............8.......... open them perly gates............something, something, something.........

Yippy, yuppy where all going to die.

........sometin, sometin sometin..... DAmn you davis, your a descrace to WS 69.

by **EZC** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:28 pm

Originally posted by Davis
I was actually going to say something regarding 9/11. Like something along the line's of..... it's about god damn time actual provoked war "suisde gta... or gtp or wtf it is" ha made it to the american frontlines. Think about, when in the near future is america, going to exsperiance,

well.................. 1.............. 2..................3...........

WTF are we fighting for......oil?..................screw it i don't give a damn............. HELL<, next stop is da viet da nang.

well............... 6.................7...............8.......... open them perly gates............something, something, something.........

Yippy, yuppy where all going to die.

........sometin, sometin sometin..... DAmn you davis, your a descrace to WS 69.

medication lots of medication

by **LetsgoYankees** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:39 pm

Originally posted by /vid_restart
No, I don't like the way you guys think (not that my opinion matters in any way), but a big and rich country, the mightiest country of the world, donates 'only' some millions (which is ok, the amount doesn't matter) and expects gratitude? The whole world is donating, Germany donates over 700 million dollars btw., but expecting gratitude in such a situation is just sad.

That's so damn right:

Germany donates $700million?? stop lieing. not even close to that

America has donated about $400 million and most our equipment is being used to search for the dead and drop supplies. I believe we have sent two carrier groups over there as well.

America is a world leader and acting as such during this awful disaster.

Your the one turning this into a competition, not us.

by **LordShard** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:42 pm

What the the GNU of Germany?! 4 maybe 7 billion a year?! :rotflmao:

by **Siren** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:43 pm

by **Hash** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:03 pm

Originally posted by :UnclSxyPants:
who the fuck cares how gives the most, who the fuck cares who gives at all, i didnt donate anything, and i dont plan to, yah its a terrible thing that happened to those people but im not going to let it effect my everyday life, shit happens and yah it sucks but im not gona waste any time pitying them

Man that's cold.

by **cavalierlwt** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:20 am

All this talk about money, how much and who, is pretty pointless (as an argument that is). Very little money percentage wise is being fully used because we are in the very early stages. Right now it's all about airlifting in food and medicine, burying bodies, and sorting people out (who's dead, who's living, who's missing). The bulk of the money isn't going to spent for a while, and over a period of time much, much, much more money is going to be donated to repairing infrastructure. Like I said, If your neighbor has a house fire, the first couple acts of charity are small: a place to spend the night and a couple of hundred out of your wallet, because at 3:00 in the morning, that's all that CAN be done. The big stuff comes later. Same thing with this disaster, all this money is just an emergency stop gap. The one UN guy that complained was just under a lot of stress at the moment.
This too shall come to pass.

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