And one more thing, if the big zero isn’t going to do it right, don’t do it at all!
Mr. Obama doesn’t like Italians or Catholics, all that much!
$50,000 is an insult.
They could have sent an iPod, or maybe DVDs
Maybe the President could use one of his weekly Wednesday night parties to raise a little “dough” for the Italians in need, or just forego serving that expensive beef to the Congresscritters when they come to call and use the money saved to help the rescue effort. $50,000, it’s an insult to even offer that paltry a sum.
This must be wrong .....
FWIW - Italy has “refused” aid for know. Not needed, they are well prepared for emergencies. They will likely need and want help later when the initial search/rescue/relief actions are completed.
The President must be taking courses from the Joe Biden School of Charity and Compassion.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-12-biden-financial_N.htm
$50K?
And we’re giving palastine HOW much????
Is this a delayed April Fools’ joke?
(Please, please, please, tell me this isn’t for real.)
The good news is, the Italian American community and other private interests will have kicked in ten times that much by the end of the week.
Italiani, avete amici americani. Ma Obama no e un de loro.
Perhaps Italy did not offer enough troops for Afghanistan and this is his “gottcha” event.
That is a bad investment in my opinion.
Over a million dollars to find out why pigs are so stinky and $50k to a deadly earthquake to an ally.
I hope Europe is paying attention.
I hope all the Europe lovers are paying attention.
Obama hates Eyetalians because they are giving the boot to a lot of muslims.
change (as in cents) you can believe in...........
I could be wrong but I do not think this is the “normal” aid. This was emergency funding offered by our embassy in Italy. So I tend to think this was $$ they had on hand. However it should have been backed up by some other $$ through normal aid channels as I’m sure we give Italy money like we seem to give everyone in the world money.
What I found worse than this was Obama’s silly statement about hoping we could send rescuers. Italy is not a third world country with no EMS Obama. In fact I would think because of lots of mountainous/dangerous regions that several countries in Europe have experienced emergency rescuers. Besides which the time to get anyone over there from the US would render it useless.
$50,000? So we’re sending them one fairly well-equipped sports car?
Insane!
How much did ACORN get earlier this year?
They are all “typical white people” ... they can fend for themselves...