Japan raises tsunami aid to 500 Million. Touche Mr. Bush*

[spanone]

C'mon George, we're the ONLY Superpower in the freakin' world. It's a pittance in our economic picture. Give it up!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/01/japan.relief.pledge/index.html edit:spelling

[Celeborn Skywalker]

1. I really hope

this money raising does become a competition; it will only help the tsunami victims.

[jellybelly]

7. it's already a competition...

:D

[Solly Mack]

2. I think the world is showing us that we're not the only nation

capable of helping...or leading the way in helping.


I believe a long thought truism is about to change. The dynamics, they are a shifting.

[otohara]

3. Domo, Domo

right-on Nippon!

[Benhurst]

4. Good for Japan. I knew they wouldn't take second place to the

spawn of a drunken man who :puke:ed on their prime minister.

[Deja Q]

5. I KNEW IT!! I said somewhere yesterday that * would up the ante!

In LBN, but that's all I remember.


"Out of every evil comes a greater good."

And here it is!

"Good" is relatively speaking. Japan's system is far more pressure-ridden than ours and a lot of people commit suicide over there :-(, but I usually try to avoid glib generalizations...

[IronLionZion]

6. I read we spend $1million every minute on Iraq

I'm sure we can give a little bit to help these people.

The whole world stood with us after Sep. 11. (we didn't need aid obviously) and now we are ignoring them in their time of crisis.

[IronLionZion]

8. fuck Bush

private donors in America have already given way more than our government has.

every little bit helps.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

[vpigrad]

9. Bushie is still a stingy bastard...

in my mind.

[0007]

10. .....except when the rich are yapping their heads off for a hand out.

junior never ever sez anything about the minimum wage.

[ShaneGR]

11. I think that's around the same figure Bush pledged yesterday... combined

We've now pledged about 350 million in aid (Might have been 300), not sure. Anyways, if you combine the cost of the manpower, airpower, to get the aid into these areas (Which are very remote in some circumstances) it will be somewhere around 500. Anyways, in the end, we'll send about a billion.

[jmatthan]

12. He can borrow some more from China for this!!

eom

[jmatthan]

13. And it will give him one more reason to explain

why the US economy is in a hole!!

Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland