US gives 50,000 dlrs for quake-hit Italy

AFP ^ | April 6, 2009 | AFP staff

[devere]

The United States said Monday it would donate 50,000 dollars in emergency aid to Italy after a powerful earthquake killed at least 100 people. "We send our heartfelt condolences to the families of those killed in the earthquake. Our embassy in Rome will provide 50,000 (dollars) in emergency relief funding," State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters. Italian authorities told the United States they did not need rescue teams, Wood said. President Barack Obama earlier offered his condolences on a visit to Turkey and voiced hope that the United States could send rescuers. The earthquake killed at least 100 people and injured 1,500 more as it reduced medieval buildings to rubble in the central town of L'Aquila. Wood said there were no reports of US citizens among the dead or injured but that the US embassy in Rome was reaching out to Americans living in the region.

[devere]

$50,000?

[mware]

I saw that number earlier today and was stunned. Chump change.

[silverleaf]

seems pretty low .... thought the USAF base might donate relief supplies, help with transportation and provide some military assistance (medics, civil engineers, water and sanitation, etc)

perhaps bambi will send some DVD’s

[Slapshot68]

I seriously hope the decimal is in the wrong spot. Remember the flack Bush took for not giving a bazillion dollars to tsunami ravaged regions?

[LikeLight]

$50,000?

All the rest has already been given to ACORN and GM.

[Professor_Leonide]

Is that a misprint?

[eureka!]

Nice, insult, that is...

[Jonny foreigner]

$50,000?

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i was thinking the same way. can be seen as nice token gesture. but $50,000 to the whole country of italy?????

[relictele]

Sorry but we’re a bit skint at the moment after shipping teleprompters all over Europe.

[mware]

I saw the same number earlier today. I think on Drudge.

BRB going to go check it out.

[earlJam]

100 dead. 1500 injured.

$50,000 works out to be about $31 per victim.

Why even bother?

[Don Corleone]

$50,000?

The price of one of his steak dinner parties at the W.House.

[Frantzie]

Hamas gets $900 million and Italy gets $50,000? All foreign aid should be ended.

[mware]

The United States said Monday it would donate 50,000 dollars in emergency aid to Italy after a powerful earthquake killed at least 100 people.
“We send our heartfelt condolences to the families of those killed in the earthquake. Our embassy in Rome will provide 50,000 (dollars) in emergency relief funding,” State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters.

Italian authorities told the United States they did not need rescue teams, Wood said.

[Sylvester McMonkey McBean]

1/3000th of what was estimated to have been spent on O’s inauguration.

Well, at least he didn’t pledge to give every person left homeless an iPod.

[bgill]

Another Hussein embarrassment.

[Jonny foreigner]

Hamas gets $900 million and Italy gets $50,000? All foreign aid should be ended.

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hey don´t be ungratefull this is about 0.01 cent for every italian.

[IceAge]

If we can only afford to give the Queen of England an Ipod,(with stolen songs on it) then this goes along with the bumbling and fumbling we can expect from Zero's administration.

He has shown the whole world what a street activist knows about running this country.
When will we start the impeachment of this bumbling idiot? He has hurt this country immeasurably!

[Semper Mark]

The area must have been void of Palestinian Liberation Organization members.

[isthisnickcool]

They should be “given” from the US Treasury (which is broke plus) the same as we should give every other country in the world. ZERO!