U.S. = 350 Million
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- mrdobolina0
it totally is a contest and I think it's awesome, it like no limit caribbean stud
- Aitch0
and skandinavia is sitting there with her top already off.
- ********0
it's weird to realize that a multi-billionaire like Bill Gates or Paul Allen could probably afford to contribute more than the US has pledged, and that the NY Yankees annual payroll is more than half that
- cola0
The rich families in the US together could take away our national dept. Not their responsibility though since they earned that wealth and it is their right to do as they please.
- ********0
just getting perspective on amount of money involved
- cosmo0
$500 million i would really like to have .1% of that money. That would be really nice. :)
- MLVR0
It's not a contest but I think it should be. The more money the better.
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I have to say that if the US is sending that much cash, I am pretty stoked. About time some of our taxes get spent on helping some peeps out rather than blowing them to smithereens.
mrdobolina(Jan 1 05, 05:05)
If Sweden alone with a 9.000.000 population can send $75.5 million then the US should send some more...and more... and more...
- fate0
- fate0
oops, dobs beat me to it. Someone post the timeline ;)
- ribit0
It can also feel like a contest if your country is giving more per person than most, and people are only focusing on which country has the largest number. Australia (where I'm sitting now) is ahead of most per capita...but then its also a close neighbour to Indonesia..so it should be helping a lot.
There's nothing wrong with a 'charity auction' approach to it...but theres more to this recovery program than simply the country totals in the first week.
- cola0
true. we really cant even base any of these numbers by per capita since you might as well throw politics in the mix since that's where it's heading and then the US is spending too much (following this logic) since the countries effected only 1 week ago were busy burning the same flag that is leading the relief effort with japan.
- MLVR0
cola, the only thing that is wrong with basing it upon $ per capita is the fact that some countries are more wealhty than others. But imo $350 millions is nothing per capita in comparsion with Swedens $75.5 millions no matter people burning the US flag or not.
- cola0
lol MLVR. it's all relative.
but what I was saying is that it's very much like this...
I have a rich Uncle. I hate him. I hate him so much that at every family event I do whatever I can to set up arguments between him and everyone else so that the next time we have Thanksgiving he wont be invited. I even went as far as celebrating the day he went into the hospital and told him he deserved it. I told him god wants him to die.
Anyway, he gave me a gift of $100 (my lovely and most favorite poor aunt gave me $150) for christmas since he knows I desperately need the money and now my new argument is that he could have given me $500! So I am telling everyone in the family how stingy he is.
If this were really me and my family I think that Uncle comes out on top looking better and I appear slightly ungrateful. Got it?
- cola0
and btw the per capita scale may not be as far between each country as you may have been lead to believe.
- cola0
Luxembourg gave $265,000 towards the relief aid but I dont here anyone arguing about that. Hmm.
- cola0
Sweden's 75.5 vs. the US 350? You kidding me? Do you know where Sweden is? Do you know it's per capita vs. the US' per capita? Sweden needs to cough a LOT more up to meet it's per capita expectation that Japan and the US set. Japan is so far the best example.
- MLVR0
Well, if in your first respond adds that you need $500 from your uncle because your 2 children died it would be more comparable with the actual situation, and if you did it would make sense that he gave you those money even if you hate him.
And regarding your second post it shows a table of GDP = the wealth of the country. And with those numbers it makes even less sense that US isn't pledging more money than they are. In dollar per capita it would be more like this: Sweden gives 8.3$ per person and the US gives 1.1$ per person.
- MLVR0
Ok, Luxemburg then gave 0.5$ per person wich is very low considering their GDP. Shame on them.
- cola0
ok we are on to two different topics. One at a time. If we scale this up and now place two children at death as you have put it then we also need to look at the fact that I have spent my life wishing and attempting to kill my uncle as well. Him giving me the $500 or even $100 would be looked at as a great gesture given my history with him and the last thing I would do would compare that gift with others from my Aunts. He would have to be a very big man to offer that type of gesture.