Posted on 12/29/2004 8:30:40 AM PST by publius1
I have a houseful of libs--my wife's family--and the question came up. Does anyone know what the French, Germans, or any of the Europeans are giving to help the victims?
ya think?
Does not include private charity.
CRAWFORD, Texas As the number of deaths continues to rise, the United States has formed a coalition with India, Australia and Japan to coordinate worldwide relief and reconstruction efforts for those hit by tsunamis (search) following a major earthquake in the Indian Ocean on Sunday.
So far the United States has provided $35 million in aid, a number expected to rise, President Bush (search) said Wednesday from his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Japan has contributed $30 million, Australia $27 million. Other nations that have contributed relief are the United Kingdom with $29 million, Germany with $42.7 million, Saudi Arabia with $10 million, China with $2.6 million and France with $136,000 (LOAN).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310446/posts
From another thread... France: $136,000
The french. Eughh if I was dying I would refuse their aid. 136,000 US dollars won't even buy a house here much less realistically help anyone!
My husband and I were just wondering how much it would cost to move 12 ships in the Pacific Fleet and estimated it had to be extremely expensive.
The mundane day-to-day running of a ship costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. I do not know the operational costs for cruisers or destroyer but for Carriers I think it is something like 500,000 a day but I am not totally sure.
Better yet...How much is the UN giving?
They are giving... a pat to themselves on the back and sitting on their fat @$$es and letting innocent people die like they always do (Rawana, various other massacres, Oil for Palaces program.)
Any mobilization or deployment, or going to an alert status anything other than "Vacation Time!", will exponentially increase those costs.
It is bs and you know it. Per capita we are giving way more of our $ than any of these socialist nations are also. Their measurement stick of GNP is bogus becuase we are a capitalist country still creating wealth and they are socialists hell bent on stealing our hard work and success and dragging us down to their living standard. Thank you, but no.
"How about you pray that all religions can just get along? Religion is a choice. Whether you are mulism or christian...."
I really hope you don't apply that logic to your tithing. And, it wasn't their "measurement stick", it was ours.
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