This is sick

[jaded_at_best]

The world, including really poor countries, collected money for the victims of Katrina, while the pitiful giant that can’t (i.e., won’t) take care of its own people, gives a sum for Pakistani relief equal to what Afghanistan gives to the US for Katrina victims! But we must consider the great expense the pitiful giant is incurring in weapons to help the rest of the world! The U.S. just announced they're donating $100,000 to earthquake victims (almost 20,000 dead so far) in Pakistan -- that's the same amount of aid AFGHANISTAN sent to the U.S. after Katrina....

America’s friends abroad, and even some of its foes, have responded to the horrific destruction to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina by pledging money and sending supplies to assist the recovery effort. Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates lead the pack, offering $100 million each. A touching $25,000 was pledged by tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka. And Iran offered 20 million barrels of oil­if the United States lifts its sanctions. FP offers a complete breakdown of the kind (and sometimes surprising) generosity of more than 50 countries around the world.

Afghanistan$ 100,000
Albania Pledged $ 300,000
Argentina 6 disaster relief & rescue coordinators, 4 bilingual mental health experts
Armenia$ 200,000
Australia$ 7.6 million
Austria Water pumps, plastic sheets, cots; an Austrian Red Cross team is in Houston to set up a communication network
Azerbaijan$ 500,000
Bahamas$ 50,000 for victims Additional aid to Bahamian citizens in stricken areas
Bahrain$ 5 million
Bangladesh$ 1 million
Belgium Medical and logistics support, civil engineering, diving teams, pumps, generators
Bolivia Pledged 5 civil defense officers to work with Mississippi National Guard
Bosnia and Herzegovina Pledged $ 76,362
Britain 400,000 ready-to-eat meals, medical experts, search-and-rescue gear, marine engineers, high-volume pumps
Brunei$1 million
Cambodia Pledged $ 20,000
Cameroon$ 450,000
Canada Pledged $5 million to Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund3 Navy ships, a Coast Guard vessel, several Sea King helicopters, and about 1,000 personnel, including divers to help clear waterways and inspect damaged levees.
Chile Pledged sheets and blankets, diapers, and bandages
China$ 5.1 million to survivors1000 tents, 600 generators, bedsheets
Colombia Offered rescue and paramedic teams, 4 mental health experts
Cuba 1,100 doctors (turned down)
Cyprus$ 50,000
Czech Republic 24,000 blankets, 600 camp beds, 14 large tents, rescue teams, a field hospital, pumps and water processing equipment, as well as transport planes
Denmark 50,000 blankets, 3,500 first-aid kits, water purification units, and personnel
Djibouti$ 50,000
Dominica Police to help patrol disaster zone
Dominican Republic$ 50,000Offered rescue workers, doctors, and nurses
Egypt 6,000 blankets and relief supplies
El Salvador 100 Army troops, including medical personnel, and engineers
Ethiopia Pledged $ 100,000 to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund
Equatorial Guinea$ 1.5 million
Finland 3 logistics specialists and a search-and-rescue team, offered sheets, tarps, first-aid kits, and pillow covers
France Pledged $1 million in private donations300 tents, 980 cots, 60 generators, 3 water purification units, 30 water pumps, offered aircraft and 2 ships with helicopters, disaster unit with 20 soldiers, civil defense detachment of 35 people
Gabon$ 500,000
Germany 70,000 meals, medical supplies, vaccination teams, water purification equipment, medical evacuation aircraft, and crisis management experts
Ghana$ 15,000
Greece 2 cruise ships to house homeless, 2,000 face and body towels, relief supplies, and rescue crews
Georgia$ 50,000
Guatemala 80 specialists from Army, health, and interior departments
Guinea Pledged $ 500,000
Honduras 134-member medical and rescue brigade; mayor of capital, Tegucigalpa, offers a similar group
Hungary$ 5,000
Iceland Pledged $ 500,000 to Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund
India$ 5 million22-ton shipment of supplies (tarps, blankets, personal-hygiene kits and sheets), medical teams with experience in waterborne diseases, offer to set up water purification plants
Indonesia Pledged $ 25,000Medical team of 45 doctors and 155 other staff, 10,000 blankets
Iraq$ 1 million
Ireland$ 1 million
Israel Sending medical team, offering hundreds of doctors, trauma experts, and other medical staff, as well as a field hospital
Italy 300 cots, 300 blankets, 600 sheets, a water pump, 6 life rafts, 11,200 chlorine tablets, first-aid kits, and baby food
Japan$ 200,000 cash, $ 1.5 million in private donations
Kenya$ 100,000 to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund
Kosovo$ 500,000
Kuwait$ 100 million$ 400 million in oil
Laos$ 25,000
Latvia A disaster-relief team, financial aid, blankets, bottled water
Liberia Pledged $ 100,000
Lithuania Pledged 10,000 EU Rescue teams, meals, building materials
Luxembourg 2 jeeps, 1,000 cots, 2,000 blankets
Macedonia Pledged $ 300,000
Malaysia$ 1 million via Red Cross
Maldives$ 25,000
Malta Pledged $ 12,000
Marshall Islands$ 10,000
Mauritania$ 200,000 from the American-Mauritanian Business Council
Mexico Government set up bank accounts to collect donations, which reached $ 1 million so far45 truckloads of supplies, health brigades, water-treatment plants, mobile kitchens with capacity to feed 7,000 people a day, search-and-rescue team, Navy ship carrying food, amphibious vehicles, helicopters, and a medical team.
Mongolia Pledged $ 50,000
Morocco Pledged $ 500,000
Namibia Pledged $ 100,000 worth of canned fish
Nepal Pledged $ 25,000
The Netherlands A frigate with water, medicine, helicopters, and beds; offered 3 giant water pumps, expertise in dike and water engineering, and forensic identification help
New Zealand$ 1.4 million Offered to send an urban search-and-rescue team, a disaster victim identification team, or recovery personnel
Nicaragua Flooding and sanitation experts
Nigeria Pledged $ 1 million
Norway$ 1.54 million12,000 blankets, Navy divers, first-aid kits
Organization of American States$ 25,000
Palau Pledged $ 50,000, another $ 50,000 from donor drive
Palestinian Authority$ 10,000 via Red Cross
Pakistan$ 1 million Doctors and paramedics
Panama nearly 120,000 pounds of bananas (turned down)
Papua New Guinea$ 10,000
Peru 80 to 100 doctors with expertise in tropical diseases and disasters; U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld requested Peru instead send medical supplies; Peru will try to comply.
The Philippines Red Cross donating $ 25,000Government offers 25-person relief team
Portugal Lending 2 percent of its strategic oil reserve, equivalent to 500,000 barrels of oil
Qatar Pledged $ 100 million in humanitarian assistance
Romania 2 teams of medical experts, tents
Russia 3 transport planes with generators, food, tents, tents, blankets, drinking water, and medical supplies.
Rwanda Pledged $ 100,000
Samoa Pledged $ 10,000
Sao Tome and Principe Pledged $ 18,000
Saudi Arabia Pledged $ 100 million from Aramco, $250,000 from Agfund, $5 million via Red Cross Offers to increase oil production to replace shortfalls caused by Katrina
Senegal Pledged $ 100,000
Singapore 3 CH-47 transport helicopters and 38 soldiers
Slovak Republic Water purification gear, cots, water, 25,000 blankets, 500 camp beds, 1,000 first-aid kits, more than 20,000 fluid ounces of liquid soap
Slovenia 780 blankets, 250 camp beds, 250 mattresses, 2,000 first-aid kits
South Korea$ 30 million in government and civilian assistance Sending search team and relief supplies
Spain Firefighters and equipment, medical staff, search-and-rescue expertise, tents, ctos, blankets, water treatment units, heating equipment, meals, water, generators
Sri Lanka$ 25,000
Sweden Telecommunication equipment and technicians, first-aid kits, blankets, meals, generators, plastic sheeting, 2 water purification units and instructors, aircraft ready for immediate employment
Switzerland Blankets, 50 tons of aid supplies, 2 logistics experts from the Swiss agency for Development and Cooperation, 2 doctors and 2 water specialists
Taiwan$ 2 million Medical Supplies
Thailand At least 60 doctors and nurses, supplies of rice, pledged 3 tons of canned corn
Togo Pledged $ 100,000
Trinidad & Tobago Pledged $ 2 million Local Red Cross sending 10-15 relief workers
Tunisia Blankets, sheets, relief supplies
Turkey Pledged $ 1.5 million via Red Cross
Uruguay 2 mobile water purification units and 2 tons of powdered milk
United Arab Emirates$ 100 million Tents, clothing, and food
Uganda Pledged $ 200,000
Ukraine Pledged $ 2 million covering transport for Dutch water pumps
Venezuela Pledged up to $ 1 million
Vietnam Pledged $100,000
Yemen Pledged $100,000

You can go to the Foreign Policy website

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3241&fpsrc=ealert050926

to see a better rendition of the table of contributions.

[Hobarticus]

1. $100k US donation for 20k dead...that's what, five bucks each?

Does that even cover a body bag?

Yes, one nation under a just and merciful God, indeed.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. This is even less than Bush originally wanted to send to the

tsunami relief.

Maybe he would have donated more if they had found Osama in the rubble. They could have at least gotten the reward.

[Hobarticus]

4. Should've told Dubya there's oil there...

He'd be all over that like stink on horse shit.

[JimmyJazz]

2. I'm reading that the United States pledge is $50 million plus

long term relief.

[meganmonkey]

6. Yeah,, I am with you in questioning this number

---snip---

Pakistani leaders in Islamabad appealed to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a regional tour, for tents, water, blankets and clearing equipment from the United States.

"We will be with you in your hour of need. We will be with you not just today but also tomorrow," Rice said at a news conference. Washington has pledged $50 million US in relief aid to Pakistan, a key ally in its fight against terrorism.

more...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051012.waid1012/BNStory/Front

[Balbus]

8. It was 50 million dollars. I don't know where the 100k crap is coming from

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/10/quake.us.response/index.html

[JimmyJazz]

10. Thanks for linking CNN - I didn't add a link because

all I could find was information from local news sources. :)

[jaded_at_best]

17. after the original amount caused an uproar, that is

This was an AP wire story that appeared as a 'pop-up' news announcement on compuserve. Within hours that same day they had raised it to over a million, then soon to 50 million.

Here's a Seattle PI link that refers to the $100,000 as the "original grant" or some such thing...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Quake%20US%20Aid

[BiggJawn]

5. Does that include the stuff to build a bigger nuclear dick...

...for Pervez to shake at India some more after this dies down?

Don't think much of a country that has billions for Nukes, but nothing for getting the Poor out of poverty and yes, that includes THIS country...

[porphyrian]

7. We can't do much about it until we get these fuckers out of office...

...and we can't do that until 2006 at the earliest. And we can't do that if the paper trail-free electronic voting machines are used once again to steal the elections. And we can't prevent that if we can't get enough people to believe that the fraud is happening. And if we do that, we still need to convince politicians to do something about it, or to get enough people to vote absentee, or get OUR people into the Departments of Elections, or convince a significant number of the non-voting public that they need to do so this time despite the election fraud.

[meganmonkey]

9. Hey Jaded at best!

Where are you getting your numbers from? Got a link? There are 2 links upthread with $50 million pledges in them....

:shrug:

[jaded_at_best]

15. sorry I took so long

This was an AP wire story that appeared as a 'pop-up' news announcement on compuserve. Within hours that same day they had raised it to over a million, then soon to 50 million.

Here's a Seattle PI link that refers to the $100,000 as the "original grant" or some such thing...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Quake%20US%20Aid

[Democrats_win]

11. You can't stand tall when you're wallowing in debt.

Five years ago, before bush, we could've donated much more, but we're so much poorer in many ways today.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

12. These figures don't make sense

From an article in USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-10-10-usaidtopakistan_x.htm

"Earlier Monday, the U.S. ambassador in Islamabad, Ryan Crocker, said the U.S. had pledged up to $50 million for relief and reconstruction.

A State Department spokesman, Kurtis Cooper, said the helicopters are bringing relief supplies to remote areas of Pakistan. A C-17 military aircraft has been assigned to bring blankets, tents and other relief supplies, and a shipment of relief supplies via charter aircraft has been ordered. Other relief missions will follow, Cooper said.

The U.S. also is sending a seven-person team to Pakistan to assess relief needs and to coordinate assistance, Cooper said.

The U.S. Agency for International Development has contributed $500,000 to the American Red Cross for Pakistan relief."

[jaded_at_best]

16. they changed the donation amount

This was an AP wire story that appeared as a 'pop-up' news announcement on compuserve. Within hours that same day they had raised it to over a million, then soon to 50 million.

Here's a Seattle PI link that refers to the $100,000 as the "original grant" or some such thing...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Quake%20US%20Aid

[golfaddict]

13. This is total Bull S**t

We will give much more that the $50 million when all is said and done. Look, we were there with in a day with helo's shuttling manpower and supplies to remote/inacessible areas of the country.

[jaded_at_best]

19. why are you defending Bush?

they don't have oil, so I think the bullsh*t is what you wrote.

Bush operates on PROFIT only, Republican DO NOT CARE about human lives, they care about PROFIT ONLY.

[JimmyJazz]

14. Where did you go? Where are your links?

Thanks. :)

[jaded_at_best]

18. sorry I took so long

This was an AP wire story that appeared as a 'pop-up' news announcement on compuserve. Within hours that same day they had raised it to over a million, then soon to 50 million.

Here's a Seattle PI link that refers to the $100,000 as the "original grant" or some such thing...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Quake%20US%20Aid