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[apocalypsos]

As pointed out by dargie:

Initial amount alloted to the war in Iraq by the U.S.: $87 billion
Initial amount alloted to the Asia tsunami/earthquake disaster relief by the U.S.: $15 million

Granted, like I said, it's the initial amount and the government plans on pledging more, but put the two numbers next to one another and they're still pretty sad.

Comments

[sabotabby]

Amount allotted to Bush's inauguration: $30-40 million (not including security).

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Well, of COURSE that's more important than helping those brown people in Asia. WHAT are you implying???

[cyprinella]

I do, however, think that the bulk of the money came from political donations.

Not that it makes it right and fuck is my work week going to suck but yeah. I think the only thing coming out of public coffers is the security. Someone correct if I'm wrong?