[Bommer]

OK. Enough of the whining about how nobody is offering any help.

PLEASE! The Jerry Lewis Telethon will raise more money then these cheap countrys are donating! They get wiped out, we donate billions. We get hit, they give a couple hundred thousand or a few million. With the billions given to them in aid yearly, this is the show from the investment! Time to kill foreign aid!

[kozachka]

When the tsunami hit, and 250,000 people dies, Bush generously pledged (after vacillating for a few days) 5 million dollars. Only later, in embarrassment, did he increase that amount.

As for foreign aid being an investment--the poor countries of subsaharan Africa should be helping the RICHEST COUNTRY on earth? The fact that one needs foreign aid to get by would presuppose that one would not be in a position to offer such aid to others, no?