From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Thu Dec 30 2004 - 16:00:32 PST
Contributions so far:
France 176 USA 35,000
in thousands of dollars.
And their president has accused us of being stingy.
apb
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From: "Mil-Veh Co." <milveh@sbcglobal.net>
To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>; <m35prod@optonline.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Tsunami, OT
> Amounts may change quickly, but so far I found this...
>
> France: 176,730 USD
> Canada: 1,000,000 USD
> Germany: 3,800,000 USD
>
> USA: 35,000,000 USD (plus 12 vessels loaded with
> food and medical supplies and saltwater converters for
> drinking water. The total USA aid will soon be over a
> billion dollars when counting relief supplies and
> manpower costs.
>
> The USA promises to greatly increase this amount as
> needs become better coordinated and can be directed to
> the right places and people.
>
> ( Not widely known nor even counted in the money
> above, but 20% of the total UN contribution is funded
> by the US taxpayers.)
>
> Funny that UN Undersecretary Egeland accused the USA
> of being stingy when the USA gives more aid than any
> other nation.
>
> As to the aid sent to the US after 9/11, I did
> considerable checking and it appears the sum total of
> aid sent by the countries you (APB) noted was, uh,....
> zero, give or take a zero. France was zero, Sri Lanka
> zero, Thailand zero... and so it goes.
>
> But, its not about money is it? No, we are content
> with all that wonderful goodwill and gratitude that
> makes us so popular in the world. Gives us a sort of
> warm feeling or is that warmth just from the Molotov
> cocktails showering flaming gasoline on our tour bus?
>
>
> --- m35products <m35prod@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> > I would like to know total dollar amount of
> > assistance (food, medicine,
> > materiel, transportation, communication, etc.)
> > offered so far by each of the
> > following: USA, France, and other UN members.
> >
> > Also, I would like to know total value, in USD, of
> > assistance paid to USA
> > following the attacks of 9-11-01 by the following:
> >
> > Thailand, Sumatra, Sri Lanka, India, Polynesia.
> >
> > A P Bloom
> >
> >
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