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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.

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

Initial amount alloted to the war in Iraq by the U.S.: $87 billion

That was the amount asked for some six months into the war.

Initial amount alloted to the Asia tsunami/earthquake disaster relief by the U.S.: $15 million

And this amount comes three days after the tsunami.

Can we not wait and see what happens before we decide the US is a bunch of uncaring assholes?

$21 billion out of that number were for reconstruction, iirc.

I'm thinkin' pull the troops out of Iraq to go help the Indian Ocean peoples. Two birds, one stone. But eh, I'm a naive blue-state hippie liberal. ;)

You can't make money from charity, thus Bush does not care.

Mf.

As I said over in

verminefasciste's thread:

I sense a large rise in our national debt.
I'd like to find out which ass they're pulling all this relief money from, 'cause last I checked we were several trillion in the whole and had a defecit of several hundred billion.
I could use access to an ass that can just create money from thin air 'cause mine doesn't seem to have that optional module.

Pardon my cynicism here but:

- We're already funding a war we can't win.
- Our economy is TEH SUCKETH at the moment.
- We've got assloads of problems at home that could use some 'aid' money tossed at 'em.
- I guess the Sudan can just rot; we don't care about them. Millions dead due to genocide, civil war, and famine that's all been going on for decades with very little outside aid? Yeah, but it's not a tidal wave, OMG, so it's not nearly as horrible.

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