richest country in the world and one of the worst to contribute to aid for other nations. cancelling a few orders of some Abrams tanks should free up plenty of money
Mmmmmmmmmm? Why blame a population for it's government's actions? Also, shouldn't we all be willing to help where/how we can, when others are in need, regardless of their nation of birth? OOB.
Yep cause all those people who have lost their homes have been spending the money on tanks. Just made a donation of about £100 which was a refund I got from American Airlines cause I've changed my New Orleans flights to go to Chicago instead. Why shouldn't a donation be organised? People aren't forced into donating. Anyway - if we are using the yardstick of other countries donating - how come we sent so much to the Tsunami appeal then, after all by your logic those countries don't donate owt!
RE: Mmmmmmmmmm? Why blame a population for its government's actions?. Perhaps because the population voted for the government. the USA is the richest country in the world and it's government is quite capable of funding the rescue of its own people without the help of me. Besides, if it didn't divert so much of its money (that's the government I mean, the one that the people voted for) into funding it's ill advised action in Iraq, then it would perhaps have paid for the vital, and well publised, work needed to shore up the levees. So the Government of the country has contributed to the problem. If it hadn't decided to sent so many of it's homeland security forces to Iraq then it might have been in a better position to deal with its own crises. The Levees were known to only be able to stand a force 3 hurricane. Talk about Russian Roulette with your own people. But hey, they were only the underclasses from the deep south, so they don't matter much.
i'm taking up a controversial anti US govt stance here the US can afford to bail themselves out of the crap and house and feed its population yet it won't. It is more concerned with creating a franchise for big business in Iraq. it's amazing that a natural disaster is getting more sympathy than the US bombing of Baghdad
nope my yardstick was that the US is the richest nation on earth and has the capacity to rectify the situation yet it chooses to continue to build arms in order to create big business franchise in the middle etc. tsunami disaster is a good example to use as discussion point. The UK govt and people contributed more to the tsunami relief than the US govt and population by a considerable margin. The economies of the majority of nations affected by the tsunami could not pay for all the aid needed without crippling their economies
RE: Mmmmmmmmmm? So your conscience and sympathy only stretch as far as the state/Government affected by a disaster. What a pathetic bunch of populist hypocrites you all are. I suppose the freak hurricane damage is all George Bush's fault yes?
RE: nope Given that what you say about the US could also be applied to the UK then I suppose you'd not want others to aid us in a similar situation then. As I said - why do you say you are glad there are no collections, you wouldn't be forced into donating if you didn't wish and the UK government have offered help as well anyway. Also the US sent supplies, personnel and equipment to the Tsunami hit countries. I thought this was a caring, compassionate country - from various things I've heard today I've changed my mind on that.
It's interesting The very people that I heard before saying they didn't hate America or Americans just the government there. Now it appears that they do actually hate America and Americans!
again, nope who said i wasn't sympathetic? purely stating that the US govt and economy can afford to pay for the relief and that maybe cutting back on arms spending would help them
don't get all Daily Mail on us i am sympathetic to the plight of all those hit by the hurricane. my point is is that i am glad we are not organising collections as the US can pay for the relief itself. As maybe we could to a lesser extent if something similar happened here. The US govt (not people) are the most militaristic people on the planet. if we sent aid to the yanks they could continue their defence spending unabated. the unfortunate thing is they will prob do so anyway and cut yet more social security for the poor like the majority of those affected by the hurricane. the US donated less than 10% of what we did to the tsunami relief. GB population 60million, US far higher - you do the maths
RE: It's interesting correction....they hate pretty much everything, and particularly those things that (grrr) really make their blood boil when they watch Newsround...in fact all they do like is those things that make them happy..bu that's different. Pathetic.
RE: don't get all Daily Mail on us "They donated less than 10% of what we did" Where did you get that figure from because I despute it. The US government donated more than the UK government But I'm not interested in that, I'm interested in what is a humanitarian disaster no different to that of the Tsunami, these are people that have lost everything. As I said - I've donated money, that was my perogative, you obviously don't want to and that is yours. But you seem to wish to prevent people from donating.
