Originally Posted by JaJae That region ended up receiving more money than the region was worth to rebuild 3 times over. It was insane how much money it got. Bush gave what he was able to give immediately without the approval of Congress. Bush took a lot of shit for it. Then Congress met and we sent more. But at that point it was a who will give more contest and they started distorting the numbers, aka per capita American donations, % of GDP, etc etc. Then it went to criticizing how much money we spend on our military compared to how much we gave to the tsunami.
The whole situation made me sick.
i know me too. the whole idea that 'the US needs to save the world
sometimes but not others' angers me to no end.
07-24-2006, 12:13 PM
