International Aid for USA?

[Locoweed]

We ran to the rescue of the Pacific Rim when they had a huge killer tsunami last winter.  Now we have a catastrophe along our gulf cost as a result of the hurricane.  Where are all the offers of international assistance and foreign aid for us???  Are we only to GIVE, never to RECEIVE?

[Leverdude]

We ran to the rescue of the Pacific Rim when they had a huge killer tsunami last winter.  Now we have a catastrophe along our gulf cost as a result of the hurricane.  Where are all the offers of international assistance and foreign aid for us???  Are we only to GIVE, never to RECEIVE?

Thats about the gist of it. Sometime, somehow, we became the worlds disaster relief corps.  :roll:

[IntrepidWizard]

We don'y need nor want any stinking Foriegn help.

[Lone Star]

I'm with Intrepid, we are not looking for handouts - let the rest of the bleeding heart world feel entitled to foreign aid, we neither need nor want it.  We can take care of our own.  

We built this country with the sweat of our brows and that's how we've been able to keep it.  Screw 'em, we don't care how they do it over there!

[jh45gun]

We do not need their aid may be true but It would be nice though I suspect we will never see any. I would bet Canada will help as they have in the past. We all pay when this stuff happens. This time it will be gas or the higher price of wood to build a house IF you can get it as it will all be going down south. Insurance premiums will be higher ect. Even if we did not accept any foreign aid it would be nice to see the counties offer. To be honest I think the folks that do not have a pot to piss in right now would accept any help they could get. I figure no aid will be coming from other countries as they think we are all rich anyway.  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: If it does come I will be pleasantly supprised.

[jh45gun]

Kinda easy guys to sit at your computer and say we do not need any extra help. I would bet  those sitting in the mud tonite with out nothing would accept a helping hand from anyone about now.

[williamlayton]

Who is our agency for the help needed now?
Blessings

[Lone Star]

Kinda easy guys to sit at your computer and say we do not need any extra help.

Actually I'm not just "sitting behind my computer" friend - speak for yourself if it is so easy.  I'm putting up a family from New Orelans, refugees as it were, I'm well aware of how they feel.  There are over 100,000 Louisianans in the Houston area right now, and they may be staying awhile - hotels are overflowing as are kennels.  Americans helping Americans is where it's at.  Don't want no French here, other than Cajuns.

Don't expect cash donations from foreign nations, just more cirticism about how 'dependent we are on material things', 'it serves us right since we caused global warning' - this is the "help" I'm hearing from the rest of the world.  Sure, some will want to provide construction help - at a hefty cost, displacing Americans from doing the work - and moving more dollars out of the US.   I'll put my faith in the American people, thanks.   Even FEMA is doing a decent job cosidering the scope of the disaster.

[jh45gun]

Thats great your helping out but the scope of this is not only going to affect the imediate area it is going to impact us all. Yea I am not big on the French either and I would bet you will not have to worry about them I am sure Canada will help. As far as any UN help I find it hard to believe they will lend a hand. Still any help they get I am sure will be accepted. I will be sending a donation that is about the best I can do, but if every one did it would help.

[Savage .250]

Kinda easy guys to sit at your computer and say we do not need any extra help. I would bet  those sitting in the mud tonite with out nothing would accept a helping hand from anyone about now.[/quot

 I agree 100%.  I sat through 3 hurricanes last year . 8 days with out power in the Fla heat. Couldn`t drive anywhere due to the trees all over the roads, property, etc. I can`t compare it with what just happened to the folks  affected by this hurricane but i can tell you i was tickled pink when the power crews came along and got the power flowing. Help comes in a lot of ways besides money. I`ll take that kind of "help" anytime.
 
 
 " The best part of the hunt is not the harvest but in the experience."

[Leverdude]

Heres something of an offer of help. He doesn't seem to like us much but its the thought that counts.

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the U.S. government, on Wednesday called
President Bush a "cowboy" who had failed to manage the Hurricane Katrina disaster and evacuate victims.

"That government had no evacuation plan, it is incredible, the first power in the world that is so involved in
Iraq ... and left its own population adrift," Chavez said in a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television.

His remarks came as U.S. authorities evacuated thousands of people from New Orleans and after Bush said it would take years to recover from flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina.

The death toll on Wednesday reached at least 200 in what Bush called the nation's worst natural disaster.

"That man, the king of vacations ... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but, you have to flee, and didn't say how ... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality," said Chavez, chuckling in a reference to Bush without naming him directly.

Chavez, an outspoken populist who calls Cuba's
Fidel Castro an ally, often lambastes what he calls Washington's failed imperialist policies. He says the Bush administration is trying to assassinate him and calls the U.S. president "Mr. Danger."

The two governments frequently clash though the United States is the top oil client of Venezuela, the world's No. 5 crude exporter. Washington portrays Chavez as a menace who uses his nation's oil wealth to fund anti-democratic groups.

The Venezuelan president, applauded by supporters for his self-proclaimed socialist revolution to fight poverty, has offered to send cheap fuel, humanitarian aid and relief workers to the disaster area.

Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA has offered $1 million from its U.S.-based refinery unit Citgo for relief efforts.

[jh45gun]

Big deal he is using this as a soap box for his hatred of Bush. If it was me I would tell him no thanks even though it is needed.

[ironglow]

Yup ...don't expect any help from most of the socialist utopias of Europe,
but it would be interesting if they would back their words up.
 
   Seems like it was the Norwegian ( or Danish) ambassador  to the UN that was running his clacker during the Tsunami saying that we were too stingy.

  I guess that now, putting  their money where their mouth is, we will see a few of those Norwegian cruise ships docked at New Orleans for temporary refugee quarters..

   Then a few billion dollars from the French and Germans and another few billions from the UN and the World Bank should go a long way toward rebuilding...

  ...But don't hold your breath, waiting for it to happen...

[ShadowMover]

I'll bet Mexico will help us by sending a bunch of "undocumented relief agents" to help rebuild.

[Gun Runner]

Wife just told me she heard on the news that Britian, Canada, France and Germany have all promised aid.  The last two I wounder what their gonna do.

Gun Runner

[Savage .250]

I'll bet Mexico will help us by sending a bunch of "undocumented relief agents" to help rebuild.

 
 A bunch..........you missed it by a mile. They are already here in Fla
  Seems like we`ve got more "undocumented relief agents" then
  alligators and that says alot. Fla must be a "staging" area.  
 
 " The best part of the hunt is not the harvest but in the experience."