How many countries of the world will offer us aid during OUR hour of need. Does the number “0” sound about right?
Do you think we’ll need it because we can’t afford to help the people hit by the storm?
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How about the same number that exploit your underage population for sweatshop labour.
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I think we agree
Since there is no Question-in-need-of-an-answer here, I’ve moved this to MPSIMS.
samclem GQ moderator
Yeah, and after all the money we gave to the tsunami affected countries, how much will Sri Lanka and Indonesia give us now? Ungrateful jerks!
Well to answer your question at face value. Probably Canada & UK. Maybe some Aussies.
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No wonder people think America is such a dickish country.
God is a terrorist.
Well, we do make a habit of this sort of whining:
I suspect we have enough resources to help ourselves.
Wow. I was just thinking about this (why isn’t this in the Pit) guy I used to live with and how he said something similar last year around hurcaine season. I don’t have to call the (why isn’t this in the Pit) guy; you’ll do fine.
Let’s see. Once in a century disaster occuring in a poor part of the world v. something that happens every (oh Og. Why isn’t this the Pit?) gosh darn year in the richest country in the world. If Bill Gates’s house burnt down would you expect Johnie Trailerpark and Tyrone Ghetto-Dweller to foot the bill? It would be nice if they offered, but be realistic.
Why isn’t this in the Pit?
What a pile of crap. If you are making a thinly-veiled reference to September 11th, Canada did everything we possibly could for you (unasked) and would have done more if it would have been possible, and we would do it again in a heartbeat.
If you’re just talking about local problems, how much aid did the U.S. send to Alberta this past spring when we had torrential rain for about 40 days and nights and flooding like nobody alive has seen before? How much aid did the U.S. send to prairie farmers here that have had drought for the last seven years?
Take your whining and go home.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offers food, fuel to US. Of course, that’s obviously a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent, so it probably shouldn’t count. 
Haven’t we assassinated him yet?
I would like to point out a fact that most people have forgotten, that Kuwait has given aid to the US after hurricaines in the past. Not exactly a large country, even if they do have oil wealth, and it was just after they had gotten their country back from an Evil Dictator and were still cleaning up from the invasion.
Not to mention how Canadians very generously helped out not only US citizens but everyone who would up stranded on their shores during 9/11/01.
The US is not cast adrift and ignored during a major disaster. People abroad respond to our human tragedies. Fact is, though, most countries do not have the resources of the US, and even those that do would have to get such aid to us so it won’t happen immediately.
As for the tsunami-affected areas - I frankly don’t expect them to help us out much, given that they are still recovering from their own disaster. However, anything they care to give - including good wishes and prayers - is welcome as far as I’m concerned. And if they can’t give, I won’t take it personally.
Australia has sent over volunteer firefighters when needed. Can’t see why they wouldn’t send help now if it’s needed.
Okay, learning more about the extent of the disaster, I retract my earlier statements about Alberta’s flooding and the prairie drought. They do not compare at all with what is happening in New Orleans.
Still, the world will help. I would expect Dutch engineers and Canadian Red Cross and medical volunteers at the least.
We’ve had French Canadian utility workers help out in New England when blizzards have taken out power lines as well, so for once don’t give the Canadians any grief about this. IIRC we’ve returned the favor as well so it goes both ways. It’s just the neighborly thing to do. I’d help my next door neighbors before I’d help sombody on the other side of the world too.
You come up with that all by yourself or read it on one of the various crackpot websites this morning? Could have used a little more zing, but not bad.
I always thought that the nature of charity was that those who have give to those who have not. I think that the U.S. has a lot more than the countries affected by the sunamis. To expect places like Sri Lanka and Indonesia to give money to the U.S. seems strange to me. These are relatatively poor countries, and, I would imagine, countries which are in debt (a relatively greater debt than that of the U.S., perhaps).
Moreover, this hurricane was not altogether unpredicted. That is to say, there have been others before. The sunamis came out of the blue, though they should have had a warning system.
I would say the better question after katrina is what will New Orleans do to protect against this in the future. Higher levies? Maintain the wetlands? We don’t want to lose one of the greatest cities of the country