NT.BB.1 - Charities
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- i_monk0
attitudes like it's the U.S.'s problem and no one else's is the reason the
world is ***** up right now. I say the people involved vote. Then it's fair.
p.s. I live in Florida and people are still homeless from the hurricanes
last year.
moveinspace
(Aug 31 05, 04:30)Katrina is a very local problem compared to global poverty, child labour, carbon pollution, etc. I didn't say "it's the US's problem" I said compared to more global issues it's temporary and frankly rather limited in area of impact. I also didn't say it's nobody else's problem, but the US is the richest nation on Earth (til the debt man comes calling) and can take care of the damage without monetary donations. Give blood if you want to help them.
And people will be voting for the charity, all I did was suggest an international charity focusing on global issues because of the international participation in the blackbook. New Orleans isn't a global issue. Compared to the tens of millions in squalor and the poisoning and death of ecosystems, it just doesn't stack up.
I'm sickened by this "Katrina is like the Boxing Day Tsunami" sentiment. It's damn well fucking not. Let me know when a hundred thousand Gulf Staters are dead and millions living in the debris while it takes weeks for emergency services to reach them.