Re: Sandra Bulluck donates $1 million to disaster relief. The Saudis donate only $10 million.

From: Bigdakine (bigdakine_at_aol.comGetaGrip)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: 21 Jan 2005 06:09:07 GMT

>Subject: Re: Sandra Bulluck donates $1 million to disaster relief. The Saudis
>donate only $10 million.
>From: "Siddhartha Jain" losttoy2000@yahoo.co.uk
>Date: 1/6/05 2:31 AM Hawaiian Standard Time
>Message-id: <1105014718.120940.75320@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
>
>George wrote:
>> I just find it rather disgusting that the Arabs and Muslims in
>general, don't
>> have more compassion for their own people. But given that the
>radical elements
>> don't give a seconds' thought about the value of human life, I guess
>I shouldn't
>> be surprised. We are hearing here already that many Arab Americans
>are very
>> upset with the leadership there that they've not given more. But
>they don't
>> seem to be too terribly concerned.
>
>The entire region that got affected has large numbers of Hindus,
>Muslims and Christians. Are we to determine the degree of compassion by
>the donation to population-of-particular-religion ratio?
>
>FYI:
>Bush's Presidential Inaugration - $40 million
>Bush's Presidential campaign - Over $100 million
>War in Iraq per day - $667 million
>Aid for Hurricane in Florida - $13.6 billion
>
>So are we to infer that Christians in the US are rather disgusting
>because they do not have more *compassion* for their *own* people?
>

I think 13.6 billion is a rather tidy sum. Still, one wonders what the Saudi
and Kuwati contribution is to the relief efforts.

Stuart
Dr. Stuart A. Weinstein
Ewa Beach Institute of Tectonics
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