something to ponder ...

[roguevalley]

The amount of money we are donating as an ENTIRE COUNTRY to the tsunami disaster, $15m at last count, is LESS than the net worth of *.

Boggles the mind, doesn't it?

[Liberty Belle]

1. It's less than 1/3 of what's being spent to inaugurate Shrub.

See the petition posted a short while ago asking Bush to scrub the coronation festivities, be a good Christian and pony up the savings to help the tsunami victims.

[Pithy Cherub]

2. Think its been raised to $20m after stingy comments.

The US is not being perceived as the leader in rendering assistance, which is a much larger issue. Our previous good deeds won't count!

[orpupilofnature57]

3. BOGGLE THE MIND, SHIT this is apathy in motion,rue-pert don't ..

Live in a hut.How many of the 52,000,00 were wealthy?

[Lizzie Borden]

4. yeah, it struck me as a paltry sum...

when compared to the money that we spend on absolutely unecesary things.

[Liberal In Texas]

5. Heard on O'Falafel Factor radio this afternoon...

Guy calls and says that he doesn't want HIS tax money going over there to help those people. He says "They're out to kill me and my family," and he doesn't want one cent to go for aid.

Guess those Asians aren't white enough for him.
Not to mention the weird idea that those people are our enemies.

What a moron.

[OhioBlue]

6. all i can say is

WTF???? Out to kill him and his family???? When did Sri Lanka ever pose a threat to the U.S. How sad the caller was so ignorant.

[Liberal In Texas]

8. That's what he said,

I was pretty dumbfounded.
The substitute host tried to deflect it by saying something about Indonesia has been making progress in combating terrorism ya da ya da...because he must have found it a stupid statement as well.

But that's the mentality that get their world view from RW media.

(BTW, the only reason I heard it was there was nothing but an old Christmas show on NPR when I was driving around, so I was dialing around the AM band.)

[IStriker]

7. No, boggles my mind you don't know this is only an initial donation...

We are sending troops, equipment, supplies, medicine, and more $ once they figure out what the most important needs are.