Posted on 04/07/2009 2:17:14 AM PDT by Daisyjane69
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I had hoped it was a mistake, but I have seen $50,000 mentioned in the BBC, El Pais, El Mundo... What a shame!
I read yesterday that Italy sent $1,000,000 worth of medical supplies for Katrina!
Spain has people already in Italy, helping with the rescue efforts.
I don’t trust this guy, Zer0, any further than I could throw a grand piano with both hands, which is less far than when I was younger.
You know, I was going to say that I’d bet that all of the aid that Italy sent for Katrina ended up being wasted/unused. And then I thought, well, maybe I should check and see if I can find out something about it before I put my foot in my mouth.
So I found the following, fwiw.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042801113.html
It claims that all of Italy’s gracious aid was spoiled and/or unused, and that the State Department didn’t want to tell Italy. The moral of the story? It pays to be a cynic, and our gov really is as inefficient and wasteful as we believe it to be.
Then by all means we should help them as much as we can. Maybe we can start by letting those banks who want to give bailout money back do that so we have have more cash on hand for aid.
>>How much did they send for Katrina and Rita?<<
That was mentioned yesterday and MyTwoCopperCoins found an answer. See reply #75 on the top thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223488/posts?page=75#75
http://www.usis.it/viewer/article.asp?article=/file2005_09/alia/a5090805IT.htm Both are in Italian but I think will be not difficult for you to have a traslation
# Italian mayor says Madonna has promised $500,000 for quake relief - APabout 1 hour ago from web
...and the millios of dollars the Italians from Italy and from USA gave to New Orleans.
We, (I am sorry id I make the point on it)..do not have..AT ALL..a State budget..like USA...
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