Washington.– The American people, through USAID, are providing $50,000 in humanitarian
assistance to populations affected by tropical storms in the Dominican Republic.
Between August 15 and 16, Tropical Storm Fay entered the
Dominican Republic from the east, moving across the island of Hispaniola and
through Haiti, resulting in three continuous days of heavy rainfall and
flooding.
On August 25, as Tropical Storm Gustav neared the country's
southwestern corner, additional rainfall led to increased flooding in the area
and the evacuation of affected populations. As reported by the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, on August 26, a rise in the
level of the Ozama River provoked a mudslide, killing eight people and injuring
two in the area of Guadalupe.
According to the Dominican Government's Emergency
Operations Center, Tropical Storm Gustav displaced 6,000 people, damaged 1,203
houses, and caused 739 people to move to temporary shelters. Both storms damaged
infrastructure, including nine of the country's water systems.
By September 2, a third storm, Tropical Storm Hanna, had passed
north of the island, bringing additional rainfall and high winds to areas
previously affected by Tropical Storms Fay and Gustav.
On September 3, U.S. Ambassador P. Robert Fannin issued a
disaster declaration due to the effects of the tropical storms. In response,
USAID/OFDA is providing $50,000 through USAID/Dominican Republic for the local
procurement and distribution of emergency relief supplies, including clean water
storage containers, personal hygiene kits, and bedding items. The USAID/OFDA
regional office in Costa Rica is in close contact with staff from
USAID/Dominican Republic and continues to monitor the situation to determine
whether additional assistance is needed.
For more information about USAID's emergency humanitarian
assistance programs, please visit: www.usaid.gov/our_work/humanitarian_assistance/disaster_assistance/.
Written by: josean, 6 Sep 2008 6:56 AM
From: United States
$50,000? What a disgrace!
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
Why do you say that Josean ? USAID is already down for millions and millions in aid to the DR ....or are you another example of the ". Por favor, déme algo " bunch that accosts the tourists on the Conde......then drive home in a taxi counting their money
Written by: jonbonz, 6 Sep 2008 7:44 AM
From: Dominican Republic, santo domingo
This also may be the one time discretionary limit US AID has. Remember they don't have full control of all funds to pass out at will.
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
Jonbonz I think you probably got it right....Josean ? What a disgrace !
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
Actually USAID is not an aid agency and the name is a misnomer. It stands for United States Agency for International Development and thier function is to assist U.S. based companies become aware of work / export technology / develop feasibility studies in foreign countries so that those local countries benefit from the work being done in the host country through employment, importation tariffs, local transportation etc. They also host work opportunity workshops in the US and in host countries bring together business leaders and government officials from both sides in effect acting as a networking agency as well.
From: Dominican Republic
The DR just made a press release with the put out of $10 million pesos (US$ 288,000.00) in aid to Haiti in the form of 75 tons of food, mobile medical units with personnel, bottled water, potable water plants, chlorine tablets, medicine and other stuff.
The aid provided by the US is actually a press related issue to the rapport of the embassy here, nothing more, and nothing else.
The aid is focused directly via some NGOs and other aid workers in the country with whom they work in tandem most of the time.
If the US really wanted to aid the DR it could call to wipe out the foreign debt into a blank slate so that real progress can be achieved within a decade here! The DR is capable of doing much but with the current debt is only able to do baby steps.
We need to default the foreign debt ala Argentina and put the money into our country instead to come back strong and able to have a positive future.
At this point in time one of two this must happen, dollarization of default.
Written by: josean, 6 Sep 2008 10:11 AM
From: United States
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
If the US really wanted to aid the DR it could call to wipe out the foreign debt into a blank slate so that real progress can be achieved within a decade here"...........Probably just steal it again.....and dont compare the DR to Argentina ..
Written by: anthonyC, 6 Sep 2008 10:45 AM
From: United States
"Written by: josean, 6 Sep 2008 6:56 AM
From: United States
$50,000? What a disgrace!"
Ungrateful jerk.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Written by: Belial, 6 Sep 2008 10:56 AM
From: United States, Texas
"$50,000? What a disgrace!"
oooo
At what rate of interest?
Written by: Belial, 6 Sep 2008 11:09 AM
From: United States, Texas
Most likely, this explains the size of the $50,000 loan to the hurricane victims in the DR.
http://www.granma.cu/INGLES/2008/julio/vier25/31usaid-i.htmlWith the pervasive corruption within USAID, the Dominican hurricane victims will be lucky if they get the $50,000.
The Miami mafia will definitely try to steal the money.
Written by: anthonyC, 6 Sep 2008 12:28 PM
From: United States
"The Miami mafia will definitely try to steal the money."
It anyone had any doubt then this confirms it.
Bellyache is just a winney, jealous, ignorant, hateful, infantile, spoiled wannabee.
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
anthonyC,
Thats what she said
Written by: Jander, 6 Sep 2008 3:48 PM
From: Dominican Republic
There you have it in a nutshell , hopefully the people that receive the benefit sof this donation will appreciate it. It reminds of a guy who tried to wash my windows, I gave him 5 pesos and he threw it at my car and made a small scratch. I guess they have haven't heard the saying 'Beggars can't be choosey"
Written by: josean, 6 Sep 2008 4:27 PM
From: United States
Written by: josean, 6 Sep 2008 5:08 PM
From: United States
Now if you divide that super generous $50,000 into 8.924.553, the current population of Haiti according to the CIA, what does that come out to per capita?
Written by: santanar, 6 Sep 2008 6:48 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Ramon Santana
The Dominican government is the sole decision maker as to the type, quantity, and areas of the country most affected and where assistant is most needed, and base on the DR government request the USAID act. Quite sure that others nations willing to offer assistant have been assign an area of the country to help.
Written by: Belial, 7 Sep 2008 9:17 AM
From: United States, Texas
The "generous" US imperialistss offered Cuba a "disaster assessment team."
It's hard to say how much a disaster assessment team is worth.
Who knows ... maybe $50K?
Cuba told the US imperialists to keep their team but to relax the conditions on the sell of food and construction materials if the US imperialists really want to help the recovery in Cuba.
The US imperialists require all food sales to be for cash paid before the boat leaves a US port. Cuba is the only country which trades with the US imperialists on these terms but it still ranks as the 25th largest market in the world for the agricultural exports of the US imperialists.
During the afternoon of 4 September, the Democratic Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama, requested the suspension, for no less than 90 days, of restrictions to travel, remittances and assistance by Cuban residents in the United States to their families in Cuba.
But the bestiality of US imperialists compels them to deny Obama's request.
Written by: Belial, 7 Sep 2008 9:34 AM
From: United States, Texas
" Barack Obama, requested the suspension, for no less than 90 days, of restrictions to travel, remittances and assistance by Cuban residents in the United States to their families in Cuba."
oooo
Interestingly, some patriotic and internationalist elements of the large Cuban American bourgeoisie in South Florida wrote George W. Bush, the butcher of over a 1,000,000 people in Iraq, and urged the degenerate butcher to grant Obama's request for at least a 90-day suspension of the blockade for Cuban family members to offer help to love ones.
During Katrina, the socialist workers of Cuba offered the New Orleans hurricane victims the immediate services of 1,200 Cuban doctors. Naturally, Bush ... the butcher of human beings ... rejected the Cuban offer on behalf of the New Orleans victims, thousands of whom died unneccesarily waiting for help from Washington that arrived too late.
Foul Cuban American reactionaries in the US Congress urged Bush to deny Obama's request.
From: Dominican Republic
For US Govt. agencies to go beyond their annual budget for emergency needs they need the affected host government to issue an official statement like "state of emergency" and make a formal request otherwise it is difficult for them to explain to Congress whey they are unilaterally writing checks that were never budgeted and putting the cash directly in the hands of host country politicians. (sound familiar Brazil??)
If we did people like josean would be the first one to post calling us imperialistic, meddling, and/or corruption etc.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16....bnoxious-internet-commenters.htmlWritten by: Belial, 7 Sep 2008 10:05 AM
From: United States, Texas
There doesn't appear to be much difference between the generosity and humanitarianism the US imperialists show their loyal Dominican allies and the generosity the imperialists show the Cuban revolutionaries in a calamity.
The Dominicans get $50K and the Cubans reject a useless disaster assessment team offered by the US imperialists.
If a similar calamity had befallen Israel, the US imperialists would rush billions of dollars of relief in hours.
But the Dominicans get $50K and a lot of excuses, lies and GOP buck passing.
The state of the DR gave the US imperialists more than $50K for BOTH 9/11 and Katrina.
Written by: Belial, 7 Sep 2008 10:21 AM
From: United States, Texas
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cu....lada/2008/09/gustav-damage-i.html"Ramon Saul Sanchez, head of the Democracy Movement, and Raul Martinez, the former Hialeah mayor now running for Congress against incumbent Republican Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, said in separate statements that damage in Cuba from Hurricane Gustav is heavy and Cubans need help. Later Wednesday, Barack Obama, the Democratic Party presidential candidate, joined Martinez, a Democratic Party candidate, and Sanchez in calling for suspension of Cuba restrictions -- though he made a point to say the embargo must not be eased. "Today I join with leaders in the Cuban American community in calling on President Bush to immediately suspend restrictions on family remittances, visits and humanitarian care packages from Cuban Americans for a minimum of 90 days."
0000
GOP reactionaries who oppose the call for at least 90-day suspension of the imperialist blockade of Cuba don't want to see Cuba get more than $50K.
From: Dominican Republic
Congratulations Belial....another thread successfully ruined.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
josean;
Of all the "crap" you have issued forth with in the past, your expressions of "its a disgrace" kinda tops it all.
The FIRST resonsibility of the US Government is ALWAYS to its own people. Take a look at the "flood" news over the past few months andyou just might learn a little bit about "Government responsibility". While the government of the DR sits back and begs for money to solve its internal emergecies (if thelegislators and theministers, including the president weren't so corrupt, they'd have the money to handle such themselves), the US government is allocating millions of dollars in relief funds to aid THEIR OWN people in dire need. The mistakes of the past (Katrina and Rita) were good lessons in ineptness and were corrected. Not so with the DR government. whose manipulators are still interested only in themselves.
Your ultra-greedy attitude as indicated in your posts merely reflects your lack of moral values.
TB
Written by: josean, 7 Sep 2008 12:22 PM
From: United States
From: Dominican Republic
josean...I am afraid Texas is right. You were way out of line with that first comment and your follow-up posts continue to demonstrate a very myopic view of things centered on your own little ego.
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
yes josean what happened to your perverse obsession with the metro
Written by: Belial, 7 Sep 2008 2:19 PM
From: United States, Texas
"Port-au-Prince, Sep 7 (Prensa Latina) Over 500 Haitians have been killed as a result of Tropical Storm Hanna, while the approach of powerful hurricane Ike has also raised alarm in the storm-hit Caribbean country. According to reports from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the number of victims is not even definitive, because there are still some flooded zones in the northern area of the country."
oooo
How much did Haiti get?
Five dollars?
From: Dominican Republic
I don't know Belial...how much did YOU give to Haiti?
Written by: Belial, 7 Sep 2008 3:31 PM
From: United States, Texas
"How much did YOU give to Haiti?"
oooo
Solidarity.
I don't blow $12 billion per month killing Iraqis. So, my resources are not the same as those of the imperial US regime.
I don't try to reduce either Haiti or the DR to a neo-colony of the US imperialists.
I trying to get somebody in power in the USA who can distinguish between humanitarianism and bestiality in international affairs.
From: Dominican Republic
I guess that is my fault; as a stupid question...
Written by: Belial, 7 Sep 2008 4:02 PM
From: United States, Texas
"I guess that is my fault; as a stupid question..."
oooo
Not really, after all, you probably don't whether I'm rich or well off or poor or Haitian.
From: Dominican Republic
Absolutely my fault!
I don't have to know if you are rich or well off or poor or Haitian to know that I will get a stupid answer from you.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
Josean & Belial, Et Al;
The US PEOPLE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPPORTING THE REST OF THE WORLD!!!
Where in the He## did you EVER get the idea that we were?
All the money being given to other countries, for whatever reason, comes out of the pockets of the taxpaying US CITIZEN, and they are getting damn sick and tired of giving that money to a bunch of subhuman ingrates such as yourselves.
If you stop to realize(which you NEVER HAVE) you would see that the US DOES GIVE OUT BILLIONS to other countries on a yearly basis.
The PROBLEM with you SMALL MINDED idiots is that you EXPECT the USA to BAIL YOU OUT of YOUR OWN grossly mismanaged efforts, and on a REGULAR BASIS, then get all bent out of shape when they refuse to do so.
Just what sort of ARROGANCE do you have that you DEMAND money fronm the USA, anyway. It is NOT your RIGHT to demand nor EXPECT anything from the US or any other country.
You're just absolutely despicable people.
TB
Written by: Belial, 7 Sep 2008 7:30 PM
From: United States, Texas
"The US PEOPLE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPPORTING THE REST OF THE WORLD!!!"
0000
Just vice versa.
US people are busted.
After the consecutive surpluses of the Bill Clinton, the US people ... or the state ... got themselves stuck in gop economics that produces a state deficit each year that grows the accummulated state debt of the last 8 years, forcing the state [or, that is, US people] to borrow more by issuing US bonds and notes, the interest and prinicpal of which consume an ever larger share of the state revenue from taxes. Taxes that the gops cut periodically to please the rich, increasing deficits that grow the debt. So on and so forth, again and again.
Now, on top of all of this, the state in the USA ... that is, the US people ... assumes today the obligations of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, a $6 TRILLION debt.
The bourgeois US regime was lucky to scrap together the lousy $50K for the DR Hurricane victims.
Written by: Belial, 7 Sep 2008 7:35 PM
From: United States, Texas
The US people ... or the state in the USA ... give $2 billion to Israel, a rich country, every month either as direct cash payments or as the transfer ot US taxes to Israel for collection.
Written by: anthonyC, 7 Sep 2008 9:20 PM
From: United States
Belly.
Shush!!! Keep Quiet.
Grown men are having a discussion.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
Well Belial, what's your beef?
Are you so jealous that you want us to cough up even MORE to be squandered by thecorrupt andalmost broke DR Government? That'd be throwing good money after already bad, now wouldn't it?
At least Israel has stood by theUSA in the Mid-East as a reliable ally, while other countries have pulled back through fear and intimidation from the various terrorist organizations in the region.
You, along with the rest of us, should be thankful for their reliability, while Germany (who we put back on the map after WWII, along with a a few other countries as sat back and esentially told us to go to hell.
People forget, too soon, just how much the USA has done for them andhow much has been spent to stabilize the various economies with loans and outright grants, most of which has been squandered by corrupt officials within their governments.
History, old bitcher, has proved the benevolence of the US toward many countries, so don't go trying to change those facts.TB
Written by: josean, 7 Sep 2008 10:04 PM
From: United States
Those darn facts get in the way of those self serving jingoistic statements from the "My Country Wrong or Right Crowd"!
"The United States is the largest international economic aid donor in
dollar terms but is the smallest contributor among the major donor governments
when calculated as a percent of gross national income."
Source:
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/31987.pdfWritten by: anthonyC, 7 Sep 2008 10:25 PM
From: United States
"Written by: josean, 7 Sep 2008 10:04 PM
From: United States
Those darn facts get in the way of those self serving jingoistic statements from the "My Country Wrong or Right Crowd"! "
Want a real FACT?
Here are 2.
No. 1. The United States is under no legal or moral obligation to give even one cent in emergency aid to any other nation!
No. 2. Anybody who complains that the United States hasn't given enough aid to another nation in a emergency is just an jealous, uncouth loser.
Written by: josean, 7 Sep 2008 10:35 PM
From: United States
To whom much is given, much is expected. - Luke 12:48
Written by: anthonyC, 7 Sep 2008 10:40 PM
From: United States
"Written by: josean, 7 Sep 2008 10:35 PM
From: United States
To whom much is given, much is expected. - Luke 12:48"
Jesus?
Isn't that the guy who mows my lawn? - AnthonyC
Written by: josean, 7 Sep 2008 10:59 PM
From: United States
Becareful your bother in arms may label you as "You're just absolutely despicable people."
Written by: Jander, 8 Sep 2008 12:26 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Natural disasters or for religous believers "Acts of God" are just that , every nation has to deal with them at one time or another. At least we now have early warning sytems and the National Hurricane Center and the technology behind that has saved more lives then we will ever know.
So maybe only $50,000.00 for now but just think of the billions that we Americans and our allies have donated to help save lives, this is for all of humanity not just Americans..
So the ones who are critcizing don't be so short sighted and be thankful that you can share this with us.
Written by: josean, 8 Sep 2008 7:18 AM
From: United States
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
Josean is this your new metro with no sense of humour.....how boring
Written by: Jander, 8 Sep 2008 10:42 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Well thats from 2004 again living in the past and we are sick tired of giving ungrateful people our money. It doesn't take much to get us to be generous jyst say Please and Thank You we are suckers for good manners.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
josean, you just want the USA to support your country and the rest of the world so you don't have to do that with YOUR taxes. Why don't you go peddle your sorry A$$ complaints elsewhere and leave the rest of us alonewith your constaint complaining about something you KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT?
Your GREED and intractability are sickening.
TB
Written by: jonbonz, 8 Sep 2008 6:52 PM
From: Dominican Republic, santo domingo
Once again I stand by my original comment. Maybe $50,000 was the limit of the discretionary fund that is allowed to spend with out getting more funds from higher source. US agency does don’t get a blank check.
Now based on previous disaster charity being misused I could see where there may not be more coming.
From: Dominican Republic
jonbonz...that charity wasn't misused...it was used to get LF re-elected. Or wait a minute...were you talking about the US$500+ million in soft loans we pumped into the economy after the banking disaster for which one of the terms of agreement was that we would be allowed to oversee the books until it was paid back; called "oversight agreement" that was...achem...overlooked on August 22nd?
Written by: josean, 10 Sep 2008 11:17 AM
From: United States
Written by: jonbonz, 10 Sep 2008 1:06 PM
From: Dominican Republic, santo domingo
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa065.htmlRead the attached article.
And how do you know that the only assistance the US has given is US AID. As I said before I bet if investigated further the 50 was the discretionary limit the director had with out going up the chain of command. BTW the US sent a hospital ship to Haiti or does that not count. I can assure the cost of the hospital ships operation is quite high. And no it is not crewed any way. these people are merchant seaman for the crew with military running the hospital part.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
josean;
Get off your A$$ anddo a little bit of RESEARCH as to theTOTAL amount of money DONATED to the Dominican Republic ovr theyears andcomparethat with theTOTALS from OTHER countries.
The ONLY THING DISGRACEFUL ON THESE PAGES IS YOUR COMPLAINING.
TB
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The aid provided by the US is actually a press related issue to the rapport of the embassy here, nothing more, and nothing else.
The aid is focused directly via some NGOs and other aid workers in the country with whom they work in tandem most of the time.
If the US really wanted to aid the DR it could call to wipe out the foreign debt into a blank slate so that real progress can be achieved within a decade here! The DR is capable of doing much but with the current debt is only able to do baby steps.
We need to default the foreign debt ala Argentina and put the money into our country instead to come back strong and able to have a positive future.
At this point in time one of two this must happen, dollarization of default.
Note fith bullet "Respond to urgent humanitarian needs; "
From: United States
$50,000? What a disgrace!"
Ungrateful jerk.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
oooo
At what rate of interest?
http://www.granma.cu/INGLES/2008/julio/vier25/31usaid-i.html
With the pervasive corruption within USAID, the Dominican hurricane victims will be lucky if they get the $50,000.
The Miami mafia will definitely try to steal the money.
It anyone had any doubt then this confirms it.
Bellyache is just a winney, jealous, ignorant, hateful, infantile, spoiled wannabee.
Thats what she said
500 hundred Hatians dead divide into $50,000 = $100 per person, I am so proud of the Bush administration!
It's hard to say how much a disaster assessment team is worth.
Who knows ... maybe $50K?
Cuba told the US imperialists to keep their team but to relax the conditions on the sell of food and construction materials if the US imperialists really want to help the recovery in Cuba.
The US imperialists require all food sales to be for cash paid before the boat leaves a US port. Cuba is the only country which trades with the US imperialists on these terms but it still ranks as the 25th largest market in the world for the agricultural exports of the US imperialists.
During the afternoon of 4 September, the Democratic Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama, requested the suspension, for no less than 90 days, of restrictions to travel, remittances and assistance by Cuban residents in the United States to their families in Cuba.
But the bestiality of US imperialists compels them to deny Obama's request.
oooo
Interestingly, some patriotic and internationalist elements of the large Cuban American bourgeoisie in South Florida wrote George W. Bush, the butcher of over a 1,000,000 people in Iraq, and urged the degenerate butcher to grant Obama's request for at least a 90-day suspension of the blockade for Cuban family members to offer help to love ones.
During Katrina, the socialist workers of Cuba offered the New Orleans hurricane victims the immediate services of 1,200 Cuban doctors. Naturally, Bush ... the butcher of human beings ... rejected the Cuban offer on behalf of the New Orleans victims, thousands of whom died unneccesarily waiting for help from Washington that arrived too late.
Foul Cuban American reactionaries in the US Congress urged Bush to deny Obama's request.
If we did people like josean would be the first one to post calling us imperialistic, meddling, and/or corruption etc.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16....bnoxious-internet-commenters.html
The Dominicans get $50K and the Cubans reject a useless disaster assessment team offered by the US imperialists.
If a similar calamity had befallen Israel, the US imperialists would rush billions of dollars of relief in hours.
But the Dominicans get $50K and a lot of excuses, lies and GOP buck passing.
The state of the DR gave the US imperialists more than $50K for BOTH 9/11 and Katrina.
"Ramon Saul Sanchez, head of the Democracy Movement, and Raul Martinez, the former Hialeah mayor now running for Congress against incumbent Republican Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, said in separate statements that damage in Cuba from Hurricane Gustav is heavy and Cubans need help. Later Wednesday, Barack Obama, the Democratic Party presidential candidate, joined Martinez, a Democratic Party candidate, and Sanchez in calling for suspension of Cuba restrictions -- though he made a point to say the embargo must not be eased. "Today I join with leaders in the Cuban American community in calling on President Bush to immediately suspend restrictions on family remittances, visits and humanitarian care packages from Cuban Americans for a minimum of 90 days."
0000
GOP reactionaries who oppose the call for at least 90-day suspension of the imperialist blockade of Cuba don't want to see Cuba get more than $50K.
Of all the "crap" you have issued forth with in the past, your expressions of "its a disgrace" kinda tops it all.
The FIRST resonsibility of the US Government is ALWAYS to its own people. Take a look at the "flood" news over the past few months andyou just might learn a little bit about "Government responsibility". While the government of the DR sits back and begs for money to solve its internal emergecies (if thelegislators and theministers, including the president weren't so corrupt, they'd have the money to handle such themselves), the US government is allocating millions of dollars in relief funds to aid THEIR OWN people in dire need. The mistakes of the past (Katrina and Rita) were good lessons in ineptness and were corrected. Not so with the DR government. whose manipulators are still interested only in themselves.
Your ultra-greedy attitude as indicated in your posts merely reflects your lack of moral values.
TB
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funn....asted-money-in-afghanistan-p1.php
oooo
How much did Haiti get?
Five dollars?
oooo
Solidarity.
I don't blow $12 billion per month killing Iraqis. So, my resources are not the same as those of the imperial US regime.
I don't try to reduce either Haiti or the DR to a neo-colony of the US imperialists.
I trying to get somebody in power in the USA who can distinguish between humanitarianism and bestiality in international affairs.
oooo
Not really, after all, you probably don't whether I'm rich or well off or poor or Haitian.
I don't have to know if you are rich or well off or poor or Haitian to know that I will get a stupid answer from you.
The US PEOPLE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPPORTING THE REST OF THE WORLD!!!
Where in the He## did you EVER get the idea that we were?
All the money being given to other countries, for whatever reason, comes out of the pockets of the taxpaying US CITIZEN, and they are getting damn sick and tired of giving that money to a bunch of subhuman ingrates such as yourselves.
If you stop to realize(which you NEVER HAVE) you would see that the US DOES GIVE OUT BILLIONS to other countries on a yearly basis.
The PROBLEM with you SMALL MINDED idiots is that you EXPECT the USA to BAIL YOU OUT of YOUR OWN grossly mismanaged efforts, and on a REGULAR BASIS, then get all bent out of shape when they refuse to do so.
Just what sort of ARROGANCE do you have that you DEMAND money fronm the USA, anyway. It is NOT your RIGHT to demand nor EXPECT anything from the US or any other country.
You're just absolutely despicable people.
TB
0000
Just vice versa.
US people are busted.
After the consecutive surpluses of the Bill Clinton, the US people ... or the state ... got themselves stuck in gop economics that produces a state deficit each year that grows the accummulated state debt of the last 8 years, forcing the state [or, that is, US people] to borrow more by issuing US bonds and notes, the interest and prinicpal of which consume an ever larger share of the state revenue from taxes. Taxes that the gops cut periodically to please the rich, increasing deficits that grow the debt. So on and so forth, again and again.
Now, on top of all of this, the state in the USA ... that is, the US people ... assumes today the obligations of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, a $6 TRILLION debt.
The bourgeois US regime was lucky to scrap together the lousy $50K for the DR Hurricane victims.
Shush!!! Keep Quiet.
Grown men are having a discussion.
Are you so jealous that you want us to cough up even MORE to be squandered by thecorrupt andalmost broke DR Government? That'd be throwing good money after already bad, now wouldn't it?
At least Israel has stood by theUSA in the Mid-East as a reliable ally, while other countries have pulled back through fear and intimidation from the various terrorist organizations in the region.
You, along with the rest of us, should be thankful for their reliability, while Germany (who we put back on the map after WWII, along with a a few other countries as sat back and esentially told us to go to hell.
People forget, too soon, just how much the USA has done for them andhow much has been spent to stabilize the various economies with loans and outright grants, most of which has been squandered by corrupt officials within their governments.
History, old bitcher, has proved the benevolence of the US toward many countries, so don't go trying to change those facts.TB
"The United States is the largest international economic aid donor in
dollar terms but is the smallest contributor among the major donor governments
when calculated as a percent of gross national income."
Source:http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/31987.pdf
From: United States
Those darn facts get in the way of those self serving jingoistic statements from the "My Country Wrong or Right Crowd"! "
Want a real FACT?
Here are 2.
No. 1. The United States is under no legal or moral obligation to give even one cent in emergency aid to any other nation!
No. 2. Anybody who complains that the United States hasn't given enough aid to another nation in a emergency is just an jealous, uncouth loser.
From: United States
To whom much is given, much is expected. - Luke 12:48"
Jesus?
Isn't that the guy who mows my lawn? - AnthonyC
So maybe only $50,000.00 for now but just think of the billions that we Americans and our allies have donated to help save lives, this is for all of humanity not just Americans..
So the ones who are critcizing don't be so short sighted and be thankful that you can share this with us.
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/dec/31/world/fg-generous31
Your GREED and intractability are sickening.
TB
Now based on previous disaster charity being misused I could see where there may not be more coming.
http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=73223
Read the attached article.
And how do you know that the only assistance the US has given is US AID. As I said before I bet if investigated further the 50 was the discretionary limit the director had with out going up the chain of command. BTW the US sent a hospital ship to Haiti or does that not count. I can assure the cost of the hospital ships operation is quite high. And no it is not crewed any way. these people are merchant seaman for the crew with military running the hospital part.
Get off your A$$ anddo a little bit of RESEARCH as to theTOTAL amount of money DONATED to the Dominican Republic ovr theyears andcomparethat with theTOTALS from OTHER countries.
The ONLY THING DISGRACEFUL ON THESE PAGES IS YOUR COMPLAINING.
TB