Re: 40M for Bush Inauguration and 15M for Tsunami Disaster WAS Re: Bush accused of undermining the UN with aid coalition

From: Jim Thompson (thegreatone_at_example.com)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:14:31 -0700

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:01:40 +0000 (UTC), toor@iquest.net (John S.
Dyson) wrote:

>In article <41D4B6EA.3000407@nospam.com>,
> Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com> writes:
>> The numbers say it all.
>>
>Like usual, the limited selected numbers that you used are misleading.
>The American contribution in total will likely be in the multi-$100M
>range or more.
>
>The little, old-Europe countries, as typified by the initial French sub $200K
>contribution will likely try to cook the books to make themselves look
>like they contributed more than the US, but alas, the largest part of
>the US contribution will be the private assistance, while the governmental
>part of the American contribution will be within the same range as the
>more spendy Europeans.
>
>Also, the 'per capita' contribution numbers are not quite 'fair',
>especially when the individual contribution total numbers will most
>likely be based upon govermental numbers. In the US, the government
>is a very ineffective way of distributing assistance (except in the
>very initial phases.)
>
>Geesh, I doubt the French (or other OLD EUROPE countries) have the
>airlift capability or the military resources to quickly supply the
>damaged regions with supplies (certainly not nearly the capability
>of the US.)
>
>There are alot of capabilities that the US provides that totally
>shame the lesser nations like France, Germany or Zimbabwe...
>
>John
>

I just found out that we're sending a "water ship", a ship capable of
creating drinking water from sea water.

                                        ...Jim Thompson 

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