Streak's other friend alerted me to this, and we both hope that we are wrong about this. We hope that this is just the first payment and there will be millions and even billions to follow. We can afford tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, the continued use of Hummer's that pollute and show off waste, but can't give the poorest and most devastated nations more than our pocket change.
CNN.com - Donations to tsunami relief 'generous,' U.N. says - Dec 28, 2004: "Powell told CNN's 'American Morning' that the catastrophe was 'unprecedented in scope and scale.'
He said the United States had responded to an appeal by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent by providing $4 million of the $7 million it initially requested worldwide.
The U.S. State Department said an additional $20 million in aid will be added to the $15 million the United States has already pledged for nations hit by the tsunamis."
This fucking pisses me off. I was just writing somewhere else about the whole Christian nation controversy. Well, if we want to be a Christian nation, this looks bad.
Now, contrast that with this little story (I will add the link later):
"Franklin Raines, who was forced out as Fannie Mae's chief executive after five years, is slated to receive a monthly pension of more than $114,000 for life, according to documents the mortgage lending giant filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission."
This asshole gets over $100,000 PER MONTH for the rest of his life! Are you fucking kidding me?
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btw...that's $34,000,000 pension if Mr Raines lives 25 more years, not counting stock options, etc. Glad to know our government is pledging to donate $35,000,000 dollars to help with the epic world tragedy. (Give me a break!!) I sure hope we actually give the money unlike what we've done with our billion pledges (3 billion?) for AIDS relief. I'm so disheartened by our country's response to this tragedy.
35 Mill wouldn't get close to covering even the cost of 9/11 and 9/11 pales in comparison (as far as the extent of the damage) to this disaster. But maybe we don't have any money to give. Maybe we spent it all blowing up Iraqis.
Adam
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