Florida gets $15 billion and Asia gets $35 million?

[fryguy]

WTF? How many people died in Florida from hurricanes this year? About a 100 or so? And Congress gives out $15 billion, while at least 70,000 are dead or missing in Asia and all we can give is $35 million??? That's not even considering the billions we're spending in Iraq every month.....why is an american life worth more?

[leesa]

1. Well, consider that Jeb is the fake Governor of Florida and the picture

becomes clearer. Jeb screwed up by not evacuating properly and, of course, that MUST be covered up.

[matcom]

2. + $40 million for * Inauguration parties!

:puke:

[SariesNightly]

3. Governments have become nothing more than..

.. corporate tools. They must've done some math and figured out that Haliburton types have nothing to gain from this.

As usual, it's up to us, the citizens who'll make a real difference.

[Ian David]

4. Asia didn't "get" anything from us.

Shrub has been very clear. It is a loan. A "line of credit."

[fryguy]

7. didn't see that part of the story

makes me even angrier at our so-called response....

:grr:

[rkc3]

5. Keep in mind - Thailand is not a swing state.

[Atman]

A lot of the Florida aid had to go to pay off vote riggers

What an easy way to bury money. This has already been reported...communities like Homestead, which suffered little damage, but people received huge government checks. I don't doubt for one second that the $15 bil for Florida had a lot of ancillary "election" expenses in there, which BushCo would have found some other way to funnel in if their little convenient disaster had not come along.



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[Deja Q]

6. America helping its own is great, but this $35 mil is a gigantic INSULT.

Was Florida worth $15 bil? I dunno. But given the catastrophy of a larger area, and how we use the rest of the world freely for corporate america's gain, $35 mil is way, way, WAY too little.

We are not a Christian country, contrary to popular bafflegab. Not in the deed, anyway.

[fryguy]

10. US didn't even help its own

my earlier post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2877891&mesg_id=2877891

[imax2268]

8. Jeb needed

a new house and a Hummer...

[bones_7672]

9. In all fairness, how much of that 15 bil was in the form of loans

to rebuild homes and businesses? That's more than emergency disaster relief. And the $35 mill is direct relief, not the expense of the navel fleet on its way.

[fryguy]

11. even if a only fraction of the $15B was direct aid

it would still be more than what is going to Aisia - - which, according to an earlier post here, is all loans anyway...

[Shadowen]

12. $35 million is *far* too little...

But is $15 billion too much for Florida? I don't know. I can't recall how much property damage was done to Florida, but I do recall it being quoted as somewhere in the tens of billions, if not higher.

It's the economy, stupid. It's like how ten bucks American can get you a fucking gourmet meal in some countries, and how people can actually survive making literally pennies a day. $100,000 will get you a sturdy, if spare, house in America--and even that varies from place to place, depending on demand and overall property values. In Thailand, I wouldn't be surprised if you wouldn't be able to build one of the more resplendent manses in the country with a hundred large.

Oh, and don't forget--in Thailand and all them yellow nations, there's a disproportionate number of darkies, and no one cares about them.