Posted on 06/27/2005 7:17:40 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Just like in the US after a hurricane, you get compensation for what you had before. If you had nothing you get nothing.
Yes, but Indonesia is the Islamic world and how they have dealt with the disaster is plain to see.
The Hindus are just as bad discriminating against the dalits, it means "broken people", even in the midst of this disaster. The Hindus treat them as nothing more than slaves. It is central to their religion.
"The survey points to the marginalisation of dalits - outcasts in India"
"Foreign aid is the process of taking money from poor people in rich countries giving it to rich people in poor countries."
Truer words were never said.
Remember the coffee cans on retail counters that you would find in small towns in America? They were filled up by people making $30K a year who felt sorry for the tsumani victims. Considering where their money really went, we should feel sorry for them.
"...Aid money goes to business and land owners..."
Maybe.
Or maybe it goes to the rulers and politicians and, thence, directly to private bank accounts in Switzerland, having no benficial effect whatsoever on the afflicted country.
Just like in the US after a hurricane, you get compensation for what you had before. If you had nothing you get nothing.
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Well, the last round of hurricanes last year -- some people who had something got little or nothing...while we sent bazillions in aid (public and private) presumably to the tsunami victims.
Exactly! Thank you for spelling all that out. I was so offended by all that b*tchin at the time. We were the first ones there, and providing all that fresh water from our ships, and providing food and medical care. If our Navy hadn't been there to help, so many more people would have died, and we just got sh*t on!!
As you can see, I'm still so po'd about this!!!
I am too.
Another thing I didn't mention before is the fact that money does no good for the victims. Give a sick and starving person in a 3rd world country the choice between a slice of bread and $1000, and theyll take the bread every time.
The UN thinks it can just throw (our) money at every disaster. Hell, America is rich enough to pay for all the damage done by nature's wrath. Money will fix everything. Nevermind the thousands of volunteers and countless resources from the good ole U S of A. Money. Money.
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look to mexico, run by white or light-skinned euros, who yell "racism" at the united states.
they dump the poor, dark-skinned, that they have only contempt for, on the united states.
I gave through established Christian aid agencies, and all we can do is give with the hope that the money will be distributed fairly.
And this is why I refused to give a nickle for "Tsunami Aid".
And this is why I refused to give a nickle for "Tsunami Aid".
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We have enough worthy causes in the U.S. to give our charitable dollars to.
I did not donate either since a lot of those people would just as easily have your head in one hand and a machete in another because you don't carry a copy of the same book they do...
"Where will the UN be on this one?"
BWA HA HA!! Like you have to ask--they're the first ones taking their cut off the top!
Isn't that why Bill Clinton was put in charge of tracking the money? The last I heard was that 10 billion was given for tsunami relief. Lots of traveling can be done on 10 billion.
It's more like, "Will the UN be in on this one. too?"
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