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US gives 50,000 dlrs for quake-hit Italy
AFP ^ | April 6, 2009 | AFP staff

Posted on 04/06/2009 1:02:42 PM PDT by devere

The United States said Monday it would donate 50,000 dollars in emergency aid to Italy after a powerful earthquake killed at least 100 people. "We send our heartfelt condolences to the families of those killed in the earthquake. Our embassy in Rome will provide 50,000 (dollars) in emergency relief funding," State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters. Italian authorities told the United States they did not need rescue teams, Wood said. President Barack Obama earlier offered his condolences on a visit to Turkey and voiced hope that the United States could send rescuers. The earthquake killed at least 100 people and injured 1,500 more as it reduced medieval buildings to rubble in the central town of L'Aquila. Wood said there were no reports of US citizens among the dead or injured but that the US embassy in Rome was reaching out to Americans living in the region.

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KEYWORDS: allies; bho44; bhostatedept; duplicate; earthquake; humanitarianrelief; italy
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$50,000?
1 posted on 04/06/2009 1:02:42 PM PDT by devere
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To: devere

I saw that number earlier today and was stunned. Chump change.


2 posted on 04/06/2009 1:04:31 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: devere

seems pretty low .... thought the USAF base might donate relief supplies, help with transportation and provide some military assistance (medics, civil engineers, water and sanitation, etc)

perhaps bambi will send some DVD’s


3 posted on 04/06/2009 1:04:43 PM PDT by silverleaf (We live in interesting times: now the entire IRS works for a tax evader)
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To: devere

I seriously hope the decimal is in the wrong spot. Remember the flack Bush took for not giving a bazillion dollars to tsunami ravaged regions?


4 posted on 04/06/2009 1:04:49 PM PDT by Slapshot68
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$50,000?

All the rest has already been given to ACORN and GM.

5 posted on 04/06/2009 1:05:02 PM PDT by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
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To: devere

Is that a misprint?


6 posted on 04/06/2009 1:07:00 PM PDT by Professor_Leonide (I said to the young man who showed me a photo, "Who can ever be sure what is behind a mask?")
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To: devere

Nice, insult, that is...


7 posted on 04/06/2009 1:07:11 PM PDT by eureka! (Elections have consequences, boy howdy. *sigh*)
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$50,000?


i was thinking the same way. can be seen as nice token gesture. but $50,000 to the whole country of italy?????


8 posted on 04/06/2009 1:07:48 PM PDT by Jonny foreigner
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Sorry but we’re a bit skint at the moment after shipping teleprompters all over Europe.


9 posted on 04/06/2009 1:07:54 PM PDT by relictele
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I saw the same number earlier today. I think on Drudge.

BRB going to go check it out.

10 posted on 04/06/2009 1:08:06 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: devere

100 dead. 1500 injured.

$50,000 works out to be about $31 per victim.

Why even bother?


11 posted on 04/06/2009 1:08:13 PM PDT by earlJam
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$50,000?

The price of one of his steak dinner parties at the W.House.

12 posted on 04/06/2009 1:09:39 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli now reads "Oil the gun..eat the cannolis.")
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Hamas gets $900 million and Italy gets $50,000? All foreign aid should be ended.


13 posted on 04/06/2009 1:10:00 PM PDT by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
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To: Professor_Leonide

The United States said Monday it would donate 50,000 dollars in emergency aid to Italy after a powerful earthquake killed at least 100 people.
“We send our heartfelt condolences to the families of those killed in the earthquake. Our embassy in Rome will provide 50,000 (dollars) in emergency relief funding,” State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters.

Italian authorities told the United States they did not need rescue teams, Wood said.


14 posted on 04/06/2009 1:10:08 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: devere

1/3000th of what was estimated to have been spent on O’s inauguration.

Well, at least he didn’t pledge to give every person left homeless an iPod.


15 posted on 04/06/2009 1:10:50 PM PDT by Sylvester McMonkey McBean (Looking for the reset button.)
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To: devere

Another Hussein embarrassment.


16 posted on 04/06/2009 1:12:52 PM PDT by bgill (This IS my happy face.)
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Hamas gets $900 million and Italy gets $50,000? All foreign aid should be ended.


hey don´t be ungratefull this is about 0.01 cent for every italian.


17 posted on 04/06/2009 1:15:21 PM PDT by Jonny foreigner
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To: devere
If we can only afford to give the Queen of England an Ipod,(with stolen songs on it) then this goes along with the bumbling and fumbling we can expect from Zero's administration.

He has shown the whole world what a street activist knows about running this country.
When will we start the impeachment of this bumbling idiot? He has hurt this country immeasurably!

18 posted on 04/06/2009 1:15:41 PM PDT by IceAge
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To: devere
The area must have been void of Palestinian Liberation Organization members.
19 posted on 04/06/2009 1:16:36 PM PDT by Semper Mark (No Quarter Given.)
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To: devere

They should be “given” from the US Treasury (which is broke plus) the same as we should give every other country in the world. ZERO!


20 posted on 04/06/2009 1:17:54 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (GIVE ME YOUR MONEY BITCH! - President Obama)
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