Aid Flowing?

[Steve]

New Orleans may be closed for months. Biloxi is still dizzy from the effects of Katrini and people keep wondering, saying "but Camille in '69 was worse". Oil production in the Gulf of Mexico may be seriously hampered by technical failures. Emigrants from the hardest hit areas are moving eastward, westward, northward, wherever they can find dry land and shelter.

So I'd like to ask...has anyone seen any aid offers from...oh, say... Indonesia? Or how about anyone in Europe? India? Africa? Anywhere???? And I'm not talking about money to the U.S. for relief. I'm talking about teams of people from France or Germany or Sri Lanka or Thailand or Lichtenstein, coming to the Gulf Coast to render aid to the homeless, the injured, the destitute.

Hmm....guess not....

 

[2ndAmendment]

Didn't you know Foriegn Aid is a one way street. They take and take and take and expect us to give and give and give and be there when stuff happens.

Don't hold your breath waiting for the French or Germans to help; you'll die from asphyxia.

 

[AMP]

Yeah, yeah, and Eritrea too, effin little made-up pretend wanna be country. WTF, man??

Eritrea wants American help despite asking USAID to go
31 Aug 2005 11:12:33 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Ed Harris
ASMARA, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Eritrea voiced hope on Wednesday that its request for the U.S. government's overseas development agency to leave the poor Red Sea state would not bring the end of aid from its biggest food donor.

If we witheld all of our aid for all of the pittancey little crises some of these countries want our help with, we could just wait it out and eventually we'd be able to take over half the world, for real.

 

[2ndAmendment]

Yeah, yeah, and Eritrea too, effin little made-up pretend wanna be country. WTF, man??

Eritrea wants American help despite asking USAID to go
31 Aug 2005 11:12:33 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Ed Harris
ASMARA, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Eritrea voiced hope on Wednesday that its request for the U.S. government's overseas development agency to leave the poor Red Sea state would not bring the end of aid from its biggest food donor.

Get out, but send money and food.

If we witheld all of our aid for all of the pittancey little crises some of these countries want our help with, we could just wait it out and eventually we'd be able to take over half the world, for real.

Probably true, but why would we want these places?

 

[AMP]

Get out, but send money and food.Probably true, but why would we want these places?

Because they would make nice little waiting areas until we could get Mississippi, Florida and Louisiana back on their feet? I don't know, but us having them would be better than THEM having them and taking advantage of our magnanimous nature.




(I'm a little loopy today)

 

[slotted]

New Orleans may be closed for months. Biloxi is still dizzy from the effects of Katrini and people keep wondering, saying "but Camille in '69 was worse". Oil production in the Gulf of Mexico may be seriously hampered by technical failures. Emigrants from the hardest hit areas are moving eastward, westward, northward, wherever they can find dry land and shelter.

So I'd like to ask...has anyone seen any aid offers from...oh, say... Indonesia? Or how about anyone in Europe? India? Africa? Anywhere???? And I'm not talking about money to the U.S. for relief. I'm talking about teams of people from France or Germany or Sri Lanka or Thailand or Lichtenstein, coming to the Gulf Coast to render aid to the homeless, the injured, the destitute.

Hmm....guess not....

Charity starts at home.

You don't see a whole lot of Americans all flying down to help out either. This on a whole different scale.

 

[nomoney]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050831...0EuxClH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA2ZGZwam4yBHNlYwNmYw--

 

[AMP]

Charity starts at home.

You don't see a whole lot of Americans all flying down to help out either. This on a whole different scale.

I bet you will begin to hear stories, just like we did with the Tsunami. People will help out in ways that the media won't necessarily report on.

In any case, it will take alot of aid, and wouldn't it be nice if we could see some euros along with the dollars.

 

[Agee]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050831/ap_on_re_eu/hurricane_katrina_world_hk4_3;_ylt=AjHjaYOQHSGovvRJX0EuxClH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA2ZGZwam4yBHNlYwNmYw--

"Islamic extremists rejoiced in America's misfortune, giving the storm a military rank and declaring in Internet chatter that "Private" Katrina had joined the global jihad, or holy war. With "God's help," they declared, oil prices would hit $100 a barrel this year."

What only a "Private"?

So it's really God that is responsible for soaring fuel prices.

 

[AMP]

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So it's really God that is responsible for soaring fuel prices.

@ Airgasm

 

[vraiblonde]

You don't see a whole lot of Americans all flying down to help out either. This on a whole different scale.

That's actually not true. There are a bunch of people going down to help just from Southern Maryland - we got the Red Cross report yesterday. And I'm sure every other community is sending volunteers as well.

 

[Goofing_Off]

New Orleans may be closed for months. Biloxi is still dizzy from the effects of Katrini and people keep wondering, saying "but Camille in '69 was worse". Oil production in the Gulf of Mexico may be seriously hampered by technical failures. Emigrants from the hardest hit areas are moving eastward, westward, northward, wherever they can find dry land and shelter.

So I'd like to ask...has anyone seen any aid offers from...oh, say... Indonesia? Or how about anyone in Europe? India? Africa? Anywhere???? And I'm not talking about money to the U.S. for relief. I'm talking about teams of people from France or Germany or Sri Lanka or Thailand or Lichtenstein, coming to the Gulf Coast to render aid to the homeless, the injured, the destitute.

Hmm....guess not....

Well, considering we are the richest nation on Earth, we seem to have enough resources and manpower to handle this devastation ourselves. Asking Indonesia to help us would be like me going up to a homeless man on the street and asking for a few dollars for some food. Kind of an absurd thought, don't you think? Besides, while hurricane Katrina has truly been a terrible disaster for the people in the affected areas, it pales in comparison to the 200,000+ people that died in Indonesia last year.

 

[jazz lady]

That's actually not true. There are a bunch of people going down to help just from Southern Maryland - we got the Red Cross report yesterday. And I'm sure every other community is sending volunteers as well.

The boyfriend of a lady in my office is going down to Mississippi next week with a bunch of folks from his company with loads of stuff. It just takes time to coordinate and mobilize it all.

 

[fddog]

That's actually not true. There are a bunch of people going down to help just from Southern Maryland - we got the Red Cross report yesterday. And I'm sure every other community is sending volunteers as well.

Smeco has 12 crews going tomorrow, 6 companys that buy tires from me hear in forestville are going down this weekend. So yes tons of peeps are heading down.

 

[Steve]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050831/ap_on_re_eu/hurricane_katrina_world_hk4_3;_ylt=AjHjaYOQHSGovvRJX0EuxClH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA2ZGZwam4yBHNlYwNmYw--

Seems I was about 40 minutes premature. But even so, if you read that article carefully, its reporting more slams from other countries than messages of support.

Well, considering we are the richest nation on Earth, we seem to have enough resources and manpower to handle this devastation ourselves. Asking Indonesia to help us would be like me going up to a homeless man on the street and asking for a few dollars for some food. Kind of an absurd thought, don't you think? Besides, while hurricane Katrina has truly been a terrible disaster for the people in the affected areas, it pales in comparison to the 200,000+ people that died in Indonesia last year.

Yes, we will handle it ourselves, just as we always do. There are some differences in the two events I wanted to point out. The Indonesia tsunami occured with no warning, compounded with very poor Third World infrastructure, hence the high death toll. If a similar tsunami had struck our populated coasts, we would probably see number in the 10's of thousands as well. But we had time to prepare for Katrina and we still were surprised by the unexpected surge volume.

 

[Hello6]

Charity starts at home.

You don't see a whole lot of Americans all flying down to help out either.

The 4 ships and aircraft carrier on the way down there from Norfolk don't count because they're floating, not flying? They're filled with Americans. Just because you aren't flying down to help doesn't mean "a whole lot" of others aren't.

 

[mAlice]

You don't see a whole lot of Americans all flying down to help out either. This on a whole different scale.

My neighbor is a Red Cross volunteer. He's flying out with the rest of the area volunteers next week. That's just one incident. Stand by.

 

[bedazzle]

Charity starts at home.

You don't see a whole lot of Americans all flying down to help out either. This on a whole different scale.

A whole lot of Americans are giving their money. Red Cross needs volunteers to answer their "Help Now" line. The calls have increased from an average of 150 per day to 7,000 yesterday.

 

[mAlice]

The 4 ships and aircraft carrier on the way down there from Norfolk don't count because they're floating, not flying? They're filled with Americans. Just because you aren't flying down to help doesn't mean "a whole lot" of others aren't.

I heard about that earlier today.

 

[BuddyLee]

That's actually not true. There are a bunch of people going down to help just from Southern Maryland - we got the Red Cross report yesterday. And I'm sure every other community is sending volunteers as well.

That may be true but a lot are still not pulling together for this 'tragedy'. No, they'd rather gain political ground somehow. 9/11 was worse IMO but we pulled together as American's and became one, not here not now.