To those in other countries that wish to help

[CountAllVotes]

Please do not feel that we here in the USA do not want you help! Please do not think that for one second!

What you CAN do to help if you want to help is to please donate to one of the places that are listed under HURRICANE DISASTER RELIEF INFORMATION AND RESOURCES listed at the top of this screen I am now looking at.

Your donations will greatly help the USA even if Bush says we do not need help and we can go this alone too, we here in America know this is not the truth (he is an arrogant fool!)! We DO need all the help we can get here in the USA!

The poor people in the areas affected by Katrina are dying as I type this. It sickens me. I wish I could do more myself! :cry:

I myself have donated some money already and I plan to donate more as soon as I get my check tomorrow and believe me, it is not much and that IS the truth!

Things are not so great in America the Beautiful. I do love my country and its people but there are many great problems that are being quite obviously ignored but now other countries can now see the real desperation via the television set and the internet. Not all Americans are "millionaires", believe me on that one please my friends around the world, do not believe this lie. America is not nearly as rich as Bush and the other millionaires and billionaires would like you to believe. All is not well in this alleged "kingdom".

Thank all of you in other countries for reading my post here and I am sure that those that are being affected by this horrible disaster would thank you too if they could. Therefore, I thank you for them from the bottom of my heart and soul. It matters not how much you donate, what matters is that you care to help.

Peace

CountAllVotes

[uppityperson]

1. Good and agreed. Thank you everyone everywhere.

Go around the administration and help, please and thank you.
Peace and thank you.
(I wonder if "agreed" is latin for "without greed"?)

[CountAllVotes]

2. yes that is my idea - we can easily avoid the administration

by personally donating ... the "administration" cannot control who donates for this disaster nor where they might be from!

If you don't like the idea of donating to anything remotely religious, there are plenty of other places that are doing things to help as well like food banks, medical organizations, etc. etc. etc.

Thank you again WORLD OF FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS OUT THERE and with your hope and well wishes for America. We need all the help we can get!! Thank you, thank you, thank you all again!

:kick:

[Lisa]

3. thanks for your post!

I know that Bush and Co. have gone all-out to puff up the Ugly American stereotype. Luckily many of us outside of the US have looked behind the national facade of a gun-toting Blackwater mercenary which he seems to want to project.

I saw that a soldier who'd just been ordered back to Iraq was a boy who ought to be starting college. I saw that the majority of Americans look nothing like Bush, but are one or more of the following: female; dark-skinned; under the age of 40; making less than $27k per year; being paid minimum wage or close to it (often needing to work more than one job); underinsured or totally lacking health insurance.

You are so right, CountAllVotes -- Bush and Cheney (and Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh too) are no more a realistic portrayal of Americans than those fake characters on the soap operas and sitcoms who live in ridiculously-expensive houses, shop and drink coffee without a care in the world.

The first American I ever met was a farmer who was a conscientious objector in WWII -- who, after the war was over, put most of his cattle on a boat to Europe and went there to GIVE them away and lend his technical assistance. He may never have carried a gun, but he helped rebuild Germany's agriculture -- without which it would be difficult for it to be a peaceful and prosperous country. He and his wife returned with only the clothes they were wearing -- they had given everything else away!

[CountAllVotes]

4. yes and that stereotype is believed by far too many people

including people right here in the USA known as the "haves". Well I am one of the many "have nots" and I am not ashamed to admit it. It has always been that way in my life as I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

All of my family came to this country under similar dire consequences. Had they not left Germany c. 1900 my grandmother would have likely been cooked in an oven. Luckily her parents fled and came to America to find new hope and a better life, just like many other Americans.

Thank you for your kind words! Thank you!