Tsunami Donations, Brits Put Rest To Shame

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OK I know it's not a competition but you'd have thought Saudi Arabia, the US and others would have contributrd far more.

KEY AID PLEDGES

World Bank $250m
UK $96m
EU $44m
US: $35m
Canada: $33m
Japan: $30m
Australia: $27m
France: $20.4m
Denmark: $15.6m
Saudi Arabia: $10m

Source: Reuters, United Nations

[ January 03, 2005, 14:55: Message edited by: Beren ]

 

I'd have thought the US would have donated more but I guess they have their priorities right.

 

While I'm sure that the U.S. will increase it's contribution, I'm a bit surprised that they seem to be a bit slow out of the gate.

And just to pick a nit - combing all of the EU nations into one is a bit misleading. It would be like combining the U.S. and Canada under one heading of North America. Or combining Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England under the heading UK (...oops!)

 

Splunge as you can probably see they do not mean the EU as a nation or as a coalition of nations. The EU there represents EU as an institution and the institution has donated that sum of money. Why else did you think that they had UK, France and Denmark all of them separately on the list?

 

This really shouldn't be a multinational pissing contest.

 

Check the news people!

CNN

Puts the english to shame doesn't it?

Oh and we dutch donated more than the french but you didn't inlude us.

 

Did China donate anything?

 

Apeman -

Although I think Slith is right on this one; how much a country donates and who puts who to shame isn't a big deal; the countries and their peole that need help are what matters.

 

@ Morgoroth - well, thanks for re-affirming that I'm a moron.

@Slith:

Without a doubt, that is the most intelligent thing said thus far in this thread.

[ January 02, 2005, 23:20: Message edited by: Splunge ]

 

I'm sure I said exactly the same thing in the first sentence of my post...

I was just making a point. Thing's like this are all relative. Surely the worlds richest countries should be contributing the most? No?

 

I don't care who donates the largest sum of money, what bugs me is that some nations refused the aid of Israel, which to me seems like they hate the Jews more than they care about their own people. Sickening.

 

I'd like to echo Slith's opinion on this matter. Every country should donate what it can afford to donate, not try to simply 'out-do' the other nations. No country is more generous by the more it can afford to donate to the cause.

Money is nice but what the countries really need is simple aid and the establishment of roadways and communication. Personell would be far more useful than just throwing money at the problem.

 

Norway gave 50 million kroners. Not sure what that is in pounds but our whole country has a population of 5 milions so , per citizen its more than most others.

And we are going to give alot more , the foreign minister said so on TV today.

Just for the record

 

I don't have much to give. All I can give right now is to ask this question.

Are there anybody here in Sorcerer's Forum who had lost somebody in the "SE Asia Tsunami Tragedy"?

My condolences and may the Lord grant you comfort.

 

I am extremely proud to announce that Belfast alone has raised £500,000 with their annual 'Black Santa' charity:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4140043.stm

My home town of Lisburn has raised £250,000 which is great considering how small my town is.

Please note Splunge that N.Ireland is part of the UK while Eire is not.

 

From a purely real politik point of view, it'd be in America's interest to up its donation to oh, say, a billion.

Winning the hearts and minds and all that.

[/cynicism]

 

Its supposed to be about helping the victims not trying to look good.

 

I think Bush has no budget for this kind of thing because he spends it all on the war-effort...

For you who didn't get it: this was cynical.

On-topic: I couldn't agree more with Slith. WTF does it matter who donates the most money? It's about those people who lost everything in there lives, including the people they loved. Just stand a moment and think about this, losing EVERYTHING and EVERYONE...

 

I was gonna say, imagine how much help and donations could have been given if Britain and America weren't spending so much on killing people in Iraq.

And you have completely missed the point there Drugar, with that second comment.

 

Barmy Army: could you elaborate that? I'm missing that point for certain..