U.S. pledge for relief less than 1/10th of 1% of cost of war in Iraq

[nankerphelge]

Here's the math I've come up with:

The United States has pledged $15 million for earthquake relief. So far the U.S. has spent about 147 billion in Iraq, or roughly 177 million per day. That would mean that the earthquake relief being pledged is one tenth of one percent of the money the United States has spent on the war in Iraq. Or, in other words, the United States is giving about 8% of the cost of one day of the war to earthquake relief.

[displacedtexan]

1. I figured it at roughly 5 cents per US citizen.

40,000+ dead

Countless injured

Each American ponies up a nickel

[forksofbuffalo]

10. If you are disappointed with your nickel

You can always stroke the International Red Cross a check.

[wicket]

11. wow, you are just all for "stroking"checks today

First in the homeless thread, now here, how compassionate! :nopity: Enjoy your short stay.

[Inland]

14. The question is more, why are you and Bush so satisfied with a nickel?

It is smaller change than you would bother to throw in the poor box. Is it the exact right amount because Bush said so? Or because you are so greedy and shortsighted as to the national interest that five cents is too much for you to part with?

[wicket]

15. TOMBSTOMED!

See ya "forksofbuffalo", don't let the door hit your ass on the way out! :kick:

[Atman]

2. Bush has $15 million in his change jar at the RNC

These fuckers are shameless. Of course, the US can't pledge any more, because BushCo and his fat-cat fuckheads drained the treasury, and then blew it on luxury spending sprees for the holidays while they were shutting down American factories. The rest they willed (tax-free) to their snot-nosed little Junior Fuckheads. There is a relationship here, and we need to talk it up. We CAN'T pledge aid, Bush and Cheney and their cronies took it all.



NotBannedYet

[thecrow]

3. Hurricane relief?

[nankerphelge]

6. Whoops

Force of habit from living in Florida.

[ClintonTyree]

4. Money spent on this only..................

SAVES lives. What's to be gained by somethng like that? Now Iraq, that's a different story. Do you know how much it costs to kill people? A whole lot more than it costs to save them. Would there be any fat Halliburton contracts there? I should say NOT! Is there any OIL there? NO, not a drop. What would be the sense? There is nothing to gain by helping people. Besides, there's too many of them anyway.
Decrease the surplus population and all.

[The Stranger]

5. Why aren't there any Right Wing "Christian" email chains asking for prayer

for the tens of thousands who have died in Asia and Eastern Africa?

All they can pray for is war and those fighting the war.

[riverwalker]

7. shameful

absolutely shameful. They are spending $30 million on the Inaugeration/Coronation of the monkey king of the death cult alone. We spend $200 billion to kill people deliberately, to intentionally cause death and refugees. Yet pennies for a natural disaster to save lives. It makes the war even more obscene and bizarre, and I didn't think that was possible.

[Darranar]

8. All that money to kill people, so little to save and improve lives...

yet again the "moral values" of the Bush Administration is demonstrated.

[Bandit]

9. That is only a quarter of the amount being spent on inauguration

I've read somewhere that over sixty million dollars will be spent on Bush* inauguration. Bush*'s big bash is far more important than helping brown people in need.

[gatorboy]

12. This is not a jab at the current catastrophe

and I, by no means, am saying it's any less horrible, but 100,000 Iraqi civilians have already been killed and it's nothing but an afterthought in the news. They can't stop talking about the death toll for the recent earthquake and it will more then likely go up. But where is their outrage for the death toll that goes up daily in Iraq?
I mean 100,000 are dead because of Bush's war and they twiddle their thumbs...

[indepat]

13. Priorities must be kept in order especially when resources are scarce

and better-utilized for war and tax cuts.