JAPAN DONATES $200,000 to relief efforts...

[laugle]

Are they trying to send Bush a message????? I don't have the list of donations from other countries....but it looks pretty chinzy....

It seems the world really wants to rub Bush's nose in it, and unfortunately, I can't blame them. However, it was disturbing today to see our fellow Brits saying we are not such a SUPER POWER and our government was quick to go to Iraq but not to save our own people.

The fact that we look soooo weak really scares me. Get ready for another disaster....every day you think things can't get any worse...and something else happens.

I'm starting to freak about the euro and devaluation of the dollar. All we need now is the GREAT DEPRESSION #2.

Please someone find something positive I can think about. I'm ready for a meltdown........

[cobaindrain]

1. to think, some private citizens could give more than an entire nation

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[madrchsod]

2. the figure to rebuild the area is over 100 billion dollars

where do think the bush government going to get the money?
1-we the people
2-japan
3-china

how and why are they going to give us the money?
can you say interest rates way over 10%?
it`s going to be a long ride into hell folks

[DemInDistress]

3. That's a pathetic number 200k

What do they think that will do ? They should be ashamed of themselves
even offering that chinzy amount,no! its worse..its insulting ...

[billbuckhead]

4. Sri Lanka's $20,000 made me cry-- Toyota & Nissan have already given more

The Japanese government probably gives everybody that amount.

[democracyindanger]

5. How much have you given? nt

[laugle]

6. Is that sarcasm?

If I were to list the charities and good works my husband and I do, you would think I am a bragger.

I have no doubt the people of America are very generous. But many people in our country are barely making it. People here give what they can.

My post is about world governments and their chinzy support for America.

[DemInDistress]

8. I gave some tears and feel heart-broken

for the catastrophe.There will soon be a clothes drive and its all I can offer I am not a nation...What did you give smart-alec?

[laugle]

10. Update on Japan relief effort;

they have also donated $300,000 in supplies.

It's still chinzy!

Also, on tonights news they showed country's donations under there flags and not their names.

Who the fuck remembers every world flag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damm it, that was soooo deliberate....they don't want America to know that the f....king world HATES BUSH!!!

[JI7]

20. what has that got to do with anything ?

we are talking about the nations as a whole. the United States deserved criticism during the Tsunami and if this is true about Japan they deserve criticism also. and it's not an attack on the inidividual people but rather those at the top in govt.

[Totally Committed]

7. $200,000????

John Grisham has donated 5 million!

Celine Dion has donated 1 million (and she's not even American!)

And, Japan has donated $200,000?

That's not a donation, that's a message... an insult.

This is what the Bush foreign Policy Doctrine hath wrought....

TC

[Senator Lamb]

9. i dont know about that

i heard awhile ago that during some crisis or catastrophe Japan donated very little money and it was mocked as "scrooge" or something by the intl. community. i dont remember for what but i dont know the country has had prior records of being stingy in foreign aid.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Listen, you need to understand something about international donations

This is a great article explaining how different nations funded the tsunami relief and why the numbers worked out the way they did: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1231-01.htm

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[laugle]

12. Well that article was soooo long, but it just

confirmed what I said, that Bush was chinzy on the Tsunami relief so it's payback time for him.

That article was nothing new....

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Actually my pointy was about Japan's donations looking small... the

section on the other nations that donated to the tsunami relief in terms of government vs private assistance.

Ah well.. Never mind. Not important now.


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[McCamy Taylor]

14. Sort of cheap

[rumpel]

15. It is shamefully low. Even Toyota is donating somewhere along 5 Million

[jenmito]

16. Just like US...

Japan can claim it's "just the beginning" or something similar if other countries shame them into it, just like when WE pledged so little money to the Tsunami victims and then Bush changed his tune and increased it dramatically.

[fujiyama]

17. pathetic

even china is offering more than that.

[npincus]

18. link, please

[JI7]

19. are you sure? that is a far too low amount to give for a nation with that

amount of wealth.

[laugle]

21. I updated my post based on last nights newscast,

in addition to $200,000 cash, Japan is offering $300,000 in supplies.....still seems paltry to me...