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Could it be because Chile with a GDP of $16 billion dollars and a casualty rate that has yet to approach four digits does not have the same dire need as a country which by every possible indices is the poorest and most desperate country in the Western Hemisphere even without a national disaster?
Oh, of course that couldn't be the answer, only some bizarre argument of Obama's (you can add this one to the list after you look it up) Neo-Pan Africanist sentiments could be!
That and there's only so many dollars to go around.
America has a hard time multi-tasking disasters.
They cant run 2 wars :-) and do natural disasters in 2 other countries.
We only have some many troops and so much money to be the world policeman.
Oooooo did I just say that, I'm sorry I dont know what came over me..
Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya Kum bay ya my lord we are broke.
Of course Obama did pledge to assist.. everyone must have missed that., checks are being printed right now.
I'll keep mine at home, I sent my contribution to the Cheyenne River Reservation when the storm knocked out their power and water. Like I said, we need to learn how to say:
I brought this up earlier in the week in a post, and somehow the Obamacrat Kool-aid crowd took it as a racist comment.
While I'm glad Hillary arrived today with a handfull of satelite phones, there is much more the US should do to help Chile. When will Obama pledge dollars and help to Chile the way he did to Haiti?
Are you really deliberately being that uninformed as to not even read the posts of your fellow posters on this forum where all of this has been explained? Why would you deliberately have tunnel-vision on this? That's just being willfully ignorant.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States is preparing an extensive aid package for Chile after Saturday's powerful earthquake that killed more than 700 people and displaced an estimated two million. US Promises Aid for Chile Quake Victims | Americas | English
Now it's time for the same posters who claimed that Obama withheld aide to Chile becasue he's a racist to claim that Obama is sending aide to Chile to bankrupt the US on purpose.
Yeah, that must be it. It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that in Haiti, the devastation was 10x's as severe as in Chile. It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that Chile will be able to recover on it's own while Haiti would become a cesspool of disease and continued inhumane conditions without assistance.
Sad thing is, Haiti was a cesspool of disease and dishonesty, long before the quake. The US has dumped millions, if not billions into Haiti over the past to help this country improve, with no results. I hate to say it, but seems like money wasted. Chile, on the other hand, is a prosperous country, with a growing middle class, excellent work ethic and world class city (Santiago). Should we have to choose where to send money, seems Chile should get the dollars.
Sad thing is, Haiti was a cesspool of disease and dishonesty, long before the quake. The US has dumped millions, if not billions into Haiti over the past to help this country improve, with no results. I hate to say it, but seems like money wasted. Chile, on the other hand, is a prosperous country, with a growing middle class, excellent work ethic and world class city (Santiago). Should we have to choose where to send money, seems Chile should get the dollars.
it's a sad commentary that the weaker the person or country, the more help that he/she/it is likely to get. but it is true.
I'll keep mine at home, I sent my contribution to the Cheyenne River Reservation when the storm knocked out their power and water. Like I said, we need to learn how to say:
"We'd like to help but we are broke and in debt"
exactly right- When does it end? Every time a natural disaster occurs in the world it's always a matter of how much it's going to cost us....
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