120,000 dead? Who cares!

[Enemy]

911 with 3000 dead oh wow!! lets look at asia 180000 dead wow theres alot more 0s in that number in fact that number is exaclty 60 times that amount!! 60 times!! were we hurting yes but come on 60times this is close to the effect of wiping a whole state off of this country not 3 buildings and 4 jets!! will i give aid to asia, i spare what i can.. will i give aid to starving childeren on tv no never.. too relief efforts for war torren countries .. never(they wanted war now rebuild) to iraq not a pennie in my opinion we should just leave them to rot let them be, take control of the oil fields and let the rest rot! i dont get peoples compasion for the ones that cause their own suffering long ago the us was oppressed and not harshley might i add and our fathers stood up for themselves said i would rather die free then live in oppression!! compasion you ask for shouldnt be there it should aimed at true tragedies, natural disasters tragedies not caused by man but cuased by mans existence!! do i feel pitty for the homeless not in the least stop concentrating on people less misfortunate because that word doesnt exsit and start concentrating on people that couldnt do anything the ones that really need help.. ok im tired of rambling!!

[PyRo]

Take a look at the economic effects of 9-11, your arn't looking deep enough at the damage it did.

[Thordic]

I wasn't trying to compare the scale of the events, idiots. I was just using it as an example of an American issue where I wouldn't expect many foreigners to care too much.

You guys all failed reading comprehension, didn't you?

[PissedGodzilla]

I wasn't trying to compare the scale of the events, idiots. I was just using it as an example of an American issue where I wouldn't expect many foreigners to care too much.

You guys all failed reading comprehension, didn't you?

Where were you after 9/11? As far as I remember, the majority of countries offered any kind of assistance they could, as far as intelligence, cracking down on terrorists in their own countries, etc.

What you said and what actually happened are two opposites.

[Thordic]

No, because my point was, would the average person who was effected / killed in these tsunamis have cared much about the events of 9/11?

The answer is not much, most likely. And I wouldn't expect them to.

I'm not talking about governmental responses here, I'm talking about how much Joe Citizen actually cared.

[Twitch04]

sure there are a lot dead over there but we are noiw haveing prob's of our own with flooding and mudslides and other things and yet they are still asking for money for the tsunami victims and not our own. they should look after our own then go to the rest.

[bjjb99]

911 with 3000 dead oh wow!! lets look at asia 180000 dead wow theres alot more 0s in that number in fact that number is exaclty 60 times that amount!! 60 times!! were we hurting yes but come on 60times this is close to the effect of wiping a whole state off of this country not 3 buildings and 4 jets!!

If you think 180,000 people is close to the population of any U.S. state, you need to do some research. I couldn't find a single state which had fewer than a half million people in 2003, and over 85% had populations over a million. Depending on how disease propagation goes during the aftermath of this disaster, we might see a death toll exceeding the population of Wyoming or perhaps Alaska.

BJJB

[kramer]

I was in NYC when 911 happened - I will never forget it and still have nitemares sometimes of the people I saw jumping (some holding hands with others) and hitting the ground and the body parts all over the place......however - I will also never forget the reactions of the people around me witnessing it with me - i.e. the tourists: MOST OF THEM WERE LAUGHING AND POINTING..............do I need to further elaborate and say where they were from? (a hint - it wasnt Europe).

so.........

as much as I feel for those that were killed during this event - I still feel that we need to help OUR OWN.

and bear in mind that in India and Sri Lanka there IS a CASTE system - which means that the elites could CARE LESS of those in the street since they are part of a 'lower caste' and as such deserve all their misfortunes.......................and yet WE need to feel guilty and give?

As I stated before (and as my posts in the frienndly corner will attest) I am very far to the left politically - but I stilll beleive that we need to take care of our own probs first.......like maybe our national debt, homelessness, UNEMPLOYMENT, skyrocketing cost of living......


why cant SAUDI ARABIA or KUWAIT or EGYPT or NORTH KOREA or ANYONE ELSE give anything? I mean, Sri Lanka IS mostly a muslim country, if Im not wrong.............

[nastymag]

Japan is giving 500 million as i said earlier. ( exceeding ours by 150 million, im sure our citiziens will give more).

And for people saying other countries didnt care about us after 9/11. i was in Portugal 2 weeks after 911. and people where Very Compassionate, and Portugal really isnt exactly a rich nation.

what i was saying about 911 is , What can you expect from a 3rd world nation when 3000 people die in the worlds richest most powerful nation ?.

Pakistan pledged to help us find Al-Quida and many other nations pledged help also.

[kramer]

..........and now the Indonesian government has the BALLS to give us a 'timeline' for our aid - i.e. we NEED to be OUT of their country by March....

funny - we are hated til we are needed, and even when we help, we are treated like step-n-fetchit.............

I am sick of this crap - really.

I would rather give my $$$ to the many homeless I see where I live in the Bay Area than to ungrateful idiots. WE NEED TO CARE FOR OUR OWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SpecialBlend2786]

Take a look at the economic effects of 9-11, your arn't looking deep enough at the damage it did.

oooook are you comparing the economic effects of 9-11 to this tsunami? cause it still is nothing compared to this......

[Rooster]

"Rooster you dont think that happens here ?

go to any city and there will be a rich and a poor section. and for the most part you wont see the "rich" lending out a helping hand."

Of course it happens here. We are just as human as anyone else. The most basic human emotion is greed. Consider that, next time some bleeding heart asks you where your humanity is.