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[gordon1]

America spends more money on a catergory three hurricane then it did helping the tsunami. It spends more money on war then helping people with no homes and i wanted to know why.

[Dhammalover]

Priority, the Category three I assume is Katrina. That happened in America, I would think we would spend more money on our own people than other countries. What we gave to the Tsunami relief in funds and military man power was quite generous. I think only Japan out gave us.
As for the poor, I ask the same question. Man is just greedy I guess.

[dgs_vex]

the military did awhole lot of work. its infrastructure is basically set up to react immediately to situations like this. it has the communication and trainning to perfrom such work. plus much scamming went on and we lost like (idontknowhowmuch) but the military is way more efficient than those other organizations.

i remember filling out this one form back at bootcamp where you could donate a portion of your paycheck to various organizations and the red cross got 22cents to a dollar(means you need at least 23cents for that organization to actually function). trust me the efficiency of some well-kown organizations(peace core, red cross, save the wales) have really low efficiency ratings(some high as $2+)

anyway they only allowed us to donate $20 max/month and i just tossed it to the red cross even though it had like a medium efficiency rating.

and hey red cross's effeintcy rate went up.
o yeah about the part where we dont go over to like other countries and help. its because we have something called the STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT to protect our troops because we might get in trouble and that trouble may mean the heads of one of our soilders. their laws are wack and the average soilder wouldnt know anything about thier judicial system and other wierd laws. to much chaos to chase drunken soilders, cause when we find them they still have jail time and we just kinda leave them. we cant do anything about it.

btw i dont know where you could find a list of SOFA, i just know they tell us when we are about to pull in.

[SPOTTEDGREENDUCK]

Dhammalover wrote: Priority, the Category three I assume is Katrina. That happened in America, I would think we would spend more money on our own people than other countries. What we gave to the Tsunami relief in funds and military man power was quite generous. I think only Japan out gave us.
As for the poor, I ask the same question. Man is just greedy I guess.

Australia put more money in then you, I am led to believe.

[Sviewer]

the question of why American spend more money on war can be justified by viewing the big picture. I mean Bush administration thinks that the latest war is advantage for America (securing the oil wells and stuffs). So it will help America on long run.

[Rilzic]

Australia has a lot more investment in that region then we do relatively, Their population is has more people from that region again relatively, Australia is a hell of a lot closer to the area then we are.

As for America, our military helped quite a bit, we donated more then others besides one or two, and does you numbers include private donations. Americans give more then any other (real numbers)

as for the OP, Any country on earth will give more money to natural disaster victim in it's own territory. That a fact. This statement made no sense. and it wasn't just a category three hurricane. it was that plus a flood, plus the destruction of a city.

"In the weeks and months that followed the tsunami, American citizens dug deep into their wallets, donating some $1.78 billion to the relief effort in Asia--dwarfing the contributions of other developed nations. Since October Americans have also contributed $78 million to assist the casualties of the Pakistan earthquake."

http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/hottopic/?id=110007728


Here is a different article

"Private aid is ignored. These numbers do not include private assistance. This is not a major factor for most other nations because private charity is not large in most countries. It is a gigantic oversight when calculating America’s aid ratio, however, because the U.S. Agency for International Development estimated that private assistance was $33.6 billion in 2000."


"America is a key donor to U.N. relief organizations. The United States is a major donor to international relief organizations, including the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which Egelund oversees, to which the U.S. is second largest donor (nearly 14 percent in 2003).[7] America is the largest contributor to the U.N. budget at 22 percent, or $317 million, in 2004. It gives over 56 percent of the World Food Program budget and $72 million and $94 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization, respectively."

http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAid/wm630.cfm

And finally where are you from to be so high and mighty.

[Baloney]

dgs_vex wrote: the military did awhole lot of work. its infrastructure is basically set up to react immediately to situations like this. it has the communication and trainning to perfrom such work. plus much scamming went on and we lost like (idontknowhowmuch) but the military is way more efficient than those other organizations.

i remember filling out this one form back at bootcamp where you could donate a portion of your paycheck to various organizations and the red cross got 22cents to a dollar(means you need at least 23cents for that organization to actually function). trust me the efficiency of some well-kown organizations(peace core, red cross, save the wales) have really low efficiency ratings(some high as $2+)

anyway they only allowed us to donate $20 max/month and i just tossed it to the red cross even though it had like a medium efficiency rating.

and hey red cross's effeintcy rate went up.
o yeah about the part where we dont go over to like other countries and help. its because we have something called the STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT to protect our troops because we might get in trouble and that trouble may mean the heads of one of our soilders. their laws are wack and the average soilder wouldnt know anything about thier judicial system and other wierd laws. to much chaos to chase drunken soilders, cause when we find them they still have jail time and we just kinda leave them. we cant do anything about it.

btw i dont know where you could find a list of SOFA, i just know they tell us when we are about to pull in.
Just exactly what are they saving Wales from, English Imperialism?

[Rilzic]

No the japanese

[Saracen]

I haven't heard a lot of reaction from the American admin, nor was I expecting or anticipating any. :think:

But they did provide aid... did they?

[Baloney]

Rilzic wrote: No the japanese
Wales = Country
Whales = mammal

now go work it out

[Hitler_Uz]

Do you know why the USA is aiming to ERON after IRAQ. it's also because of OIL.

Sviewer wrote: the question of why American spend more money on war can be justified by viewing the big picture. I mean Bush administration thinks that the latest war is advantage for America (securing the oil wells and stuffs). So it will help America on long run.

[foadi]

Hitler_Uz wrote: Do you know why the USA is aiming to ERON after IRAQ. it's also because of OIL.
What?