Author Topic: Tsunami relief (Read 754 times)

Shorty · « **on:** February 09, 2005, 01:22:12 PM »

'Read today that the UN is pleading with nations who have pledged millions of dollars for help in the tsunami region to PLEASE cough it up! It seems that only a fraction of the money pledged has actually been sent! So much for grandstanding and one-upmanship. :roll: It didn't say which nations were reneging. That might be interesting.

Nightrain52 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2005, 02:42:45 PM »

Yes it would after all the stink they raised about the USA not giving their fair share.

magooch · « **Reply #2 on:** February 10, 2005, 04:17:15 AM »

To me, tsunami relief would be for the news people to move on. Surely there are other current events that are more current.

FWiedner · « **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2005, 05:04:10 AM »

The President has asked Congress for another $600 Million for this "relief" effort.

That's on top of the $350 Million he's already poured down that toilet.

No branch of government has a Constitutional authority to provide charity to anyone, including American citizens. If the CEO of any other business were to forcibly extort money from his customers for the supposed benefit of the business and then just give it away without so much as a by your leave to the owners of the business, he'd be on his way to jail.

If people want to give money out of their own pockets, that's one issue, and that's charitable. The government has no authority to allocate treasury funds to apply to such a purpose.

This is a theft being perpetrated on the American People.

Shorty · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2005, 12:50:07 PM »

F Wiedner,
You are of course Constitutionally and ethically correct, BUT being a generous nation (government) benefits each of us tax-payers in the long run through good relations with the rest of the world.

I read a review of a new book ('can't remember the name) about the British war on the slave trade in the late 18 th century. The Empire spent an enormous sum, mostly through their navy, for a cause that was not only irrelevant to their economy, but in some ways hurtfull to it. Somehow, that seemed to me to be relevant here.