shropshire 0 #26 August 31, 2005 Anyone who suggests that the scale of the 2 disasters are even close, needs their head examined. The human cost of the Tsunami was simply staggering whilst no one would be hard arsed enough discount the loss of life this week (it's always to be deeply regreted) the big loss in the US can be measured in Dollars. Which just goes to show the different demographics of the 2 areas involved. Here's hopeing for a swift safe return to normality to all of the involved. . (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #27 August 31, 2005 QuoteAnyone else wonder how much foreign aid we can expect for our hurricane pummeled southeast? You mean like this? http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050830/wl_canada_afp/usweathercanadareax_050830225657 _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
j0nes 0 #28 August 31, 2005 although the tsunami and the hurricane aren't exactly on the same scale, feel free to substitute a disaster of equal magnitude for the one mentioned in the subject of the original post. the question still remains. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,120 #29 August 31, 2005 >feel free to substitute a disaster of equal magnitude for the one >mentioned in the subject of the original post. So far the death toll is around 120. Let's say it gets to 1000 (I hope it doesn't, but let's say it does.) That makes it 10% as bad as, say, the Bhopal disaster. India got a few million from the company responsible initially, then $470 million as a result of a lawsuit. So far Venezuela and Canada have offered to help. If we get more than $50 million or so from those countries, then we got as much aid as India got, proportionally, for the Bhopal disaster. (If we turn down the aid, of course, that's our fault, not Venezuela's or Canada's.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #30 August 31, 2005 Quote Newspapers in no way reflect global public opinion. I shouldn't think most of the world could give a shit what the average American donated to the tsunami appeal. Unless it stopped coming. The rest of the world would notice. But as put so well, our disaster is about dollars lost and people inconvenienced, far more so than about lives lost and entire communities destroyed. It's a shame to hear that virtually every structure in New Orleans will need to be torn down to the foundation. I hope the rebuilding is done in a coordinated manner. We had a big fire in the Oakland hills 14 years back and along with the trouble getting insurance companies to make good, people rebuilt much bigger, and not always prettier houses. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,150 #31 September 1, 2005 QuoteAnyone else wonder how much foreign aid we can expect for our hurricane pummeled southeast? My guess is zero dollars, zero rupees, zero euros, zero rand, etc..... Well, apparently your guess is dead wrong. On C-SPAN right now a State Department spokesman is thanking all the countries that are providing help - a VERY LONG list including Canada, Russia, China, most of Europe, and Central and South America including Venezuela. Earlier, President George W. Bush said in a television interview that the United States "could take care of itself." "I'm not expecting much from foreign nations because we hadn't asked for it. I do expect a lot of sympathy and perhaps some will send cash dollars. But this country's going to rise up and take care of it," Bush told ABC's "Good Morning America." But later, Secretary Rice stated that "no offer of help will be refused". Jeez, Bush is such an incompetent!... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frenchy68 0 #32 September 2, 2005 A quick (incomplete) list: Canada, Russia, Japan, France, Germany, Great Britain, China, Australia, Jamaica, Honduras, Greece, Venezuela, NATO, Netherlands (talking about being below see level!), Switzerland, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, Israël, South Korea and UAE. Either in form of $ or material help. "For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,120 #33 September 2, 2005 >How much foreign aid do you need and what type. You know, that's an idea. We could declare New Orleans to be its own country. Then we could throw all kinds of foreign aid at it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frenchy68 0 #34 September 2, 2005 Quote>How much foreign aid do you need and what type. You know, that's an idea. We could declare New Orleans to be its own country. Then we could throw all kinds of foreign aid at it! WHen we're done supporting it, can we please invade it? Please, pretty please? "For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,120 #35 September 2, 2005 >WHen we're done supporting it, can we please invade it? Of course. Heck, they speak French. Everyone likes to beat up the French. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frenchy68 0 #36 September 2, 2005 QuoteEveryone likes to beat up the French. I wonder where you'd get such an idea! "For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,120 #37 September 2, 2005 >WHen we're done supporting it, can we please invade it? You know, you may be on to something here! Maybe we invade _first._ Sure, we blow it to bits, but it's not in such good shape right now anyway. Then we spend $200 billion on military support (including helicopters, which we desperately need right now) Halliburton contracts (to rebuild the port facilities and whatnot) and publicity (to sell it as a war against evil/a war to save the New Orleaners.) We could give blacks the vote! We could overthrow the parish warlords/looters and install a democratic government! We would surely be greeted as liberators. On second thought, that would also suck all the world's terrorists into the French Quarter, and that wouldn't be so good. So maybe not. But it would get us those helicopters. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #38 September 2, 2005 Did you mean like this? "Canada's (prime minister) Martin offers Katrina aid, plans visit" http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050902/wl_canada_nm/canada_weather_usa_canada_col or perhaps this? "NATO offers help to hurricane-hit U.S." http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050902/ts_nm/weather_katrina_nato_dc_1 _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Casurf1978 0 #39 September 2, 2005 QuoteEarlier, President George W. Bush said in a television interview that the United States "could take care of itself." Let me get this. First we bitch about not being helped, then when nations offer help we bitch slap them and say "no we can take care of ourselves." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,150 #40 September 2, 2005 I see that Japan, Sri Lanka, and many Caribbean nations are now contributing too.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
