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Why should they? Is the U.S. in such bad shape we need help from 2nd world countries now? Besides, they already turned down help from CANADA. That's just inhospitable to turn down help from an equal. Must be a Texas thing.
What a whopper. They have not turned down Canada. They've turned down provinces. There are real problems with allowing secessionist provinces have a separate foreign policy.
Blah, blah ........ it's about the people in Texas , not your political agenda.
Fact, not political agenda. And if he hadn't alienated other countries, there'd be more help forthcoming. His election makes ALL Americans look bad, not just the ones who voted for him.
Fact, not political agenda. And if he hadn't alienated other countries, there'd be more help forthcoming. His election makes ALL Americans look bad, not just the ones who voted for him.
After all the help America has offered in foreign aid to other countries, I would imagine there's more offers than are being reported. Just the other day I heard an interview from a Polish official offering his country's assistance.
The left can't help but turn everything into a negative. Trump visiting Texas? Too soon. No empathy. His wife wore high heels when getting on the plane. Trump visits Texas again? He said the wrong thing, the wrong way. Now it's Trump's fault the same countries that offered assistance during Katrina aren't as forthcoming. It wouldn't have anything to do with the influx of migrants they are dealing with, would it?
This constant nitpicking and Trump bashing gets sooooo old. Just stop it, and be glad you have a president who is handling this crisis MUCH better than Katrina was handled. Have gone through Katrina and lost everything, I can definitely see the difference.
After all the help America has offered in foreign aid to other countries, I would imagine there's more offers than are being reported. Just the other day I heard an interview from a Polish official offering his country's assistance.
The left can't help but turn everything into a negative. Trump visiting Texas? Too soon. No empathy. His wife wore high heels when getting on the plane. Trump visits Texas again? He said the wrong thing, the wrong way. Now it's Trump's fault the same countries that offered assistance during Katrina aren't as forthcoming. It wouldn't have anything to do with the influx of migrants they are dealing with, would it?
This constant nitpicking and Trump bashing gets sooooo old. Just stop it, and be glad you have a president who is handling this crisis MUCH better than Katrina was handled. Have gone through Katrina and lost everything, I can definitely see the difference.
Yes, George W. Bush was an ineffective president who handled Katrina very badly, I agree with that. And I am truly sorry you went through Katrina and lost everything.
Why should they? Is the U.S. in such bad shape we need help from 2nd world countries now? Besides, they already turned down help from CANADA. That's just inhospitable to turn down help from an equal. Must be a Texas thing.
It is interesting that people are carping about foreign countries sending aid to Texas in the richest country in the world where about 55 lives have been loss. However, at the same time there is very little world awareness of a even greater catastrophe unfolding in South Asia. Maybe the lives of certain people are more important than others.
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As the world's media trains its sights on the tragic events in Texas and Louisiana, another water-driven catastrophe is unfolding in villages like Beraberi throughout Bangladesh and parts of Nepal and India.
There, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) estimates that at least 1,200 have died and more than 41 million people have been affected by monsoon rains and severe flooding as of June this year. The rains are now moving northwest towards Pakistan, where more devastation is expected.
It is interesting that people are carping about foreign countries sending aid to Texas in the richest country in the world where about 55 lives have been loss. However, at the same time there is very little world awareness of a even greater catastrophe unfolding in South Asia. Maybe the lives of certain people are more important than others.
I mean, the US is always first to rush to aid others.
Canada. It was refused. One official in Texas said, "All we need is Jesus." Seriously.
Other countries offered help during Katrina, too. Again, the U.S. refused it. France, I think. Maybe England and some others...I don't recall. When the pictures of the dying people in the stadium made the world news and saw that the U S couldn't get them out, they offered a way out. But the U S refused.
The U S is generally too proud to admit it needs help.
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