Tsunami in Asia

In case you nerds are so kept up in your Forum world of Zelaron, and haven't gotten the news about the Tsunami from your computer, or family. Well, here it is. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/

Basically a giant ass wave demolished parts around Asia. The death toll is no around 140,000 . And the sad part is, nobody around the states seems to give a shit. Pathetic.

But is is good to hear that international (businesses?) have pitched in and the relief effort is starting to move along, their $ amount is up to 2 Billion. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapc...ake/index.html

And the sad part is, nobody around the states seems to give a shit. Pathetic.

I wouldn't say that. The United States has donated 350-million dollars to help countries that suffered from the tsunami, and are also sending supplies along with naval ships to help alleviate the situation.

Also, plenty of American citizens have donated money. Bill Gates and Michael Dell have both donated 3 million dollars. Plenty of people care.

Oh my bad. last I heard the US only gave 35 Mil. Thats great to hear that people are contributing towards the good cause. Though, it is somewhat in vein, theres so many dead people and demolished cities, it's going to be a long time of hell.

It is currently 35 million in donations from the government and it only got that high because Bush got pressured into it. Originally he wasn't giving anything and when people started to notice, he decided to give $15 million which is nothing for aid. He bumped that up to $20 million and eventually $35 million when people noticed how stingy he was.

You say he's stingy like it's his money. I'm sure congress had something to do with it.

A Google search confirmed mjordan's post of $350 million.

Edit: It seems I was wrong about the starting amount of $15 million... it was only 4 million. Here is the article about the $350mil amount.