It's sort of funny how we've had an earthquake overseas that's killed 20k people (so far), we've got a bird flu problem that we're completely unprepared to deal with, and you guys are bumping old katrina topics for no reason.
You know who you SHOULD donate money to? The VICTIMS OF NATURE in Indonesia and Pakistan. Who DO you donate money to? The VICTIMS OF IGNORANCE in New Orleans. Is it due to pseudo-patriotism or what? No matter how you like or dislike people of pakistan (who you don't know...), they're more deserving of money than the people in New Orleans. I live in hurricane-free Ohio and I KNOW TO NOT STAY. The people in pakistan had no warning while the people in new orleans had days.
Can't wait until bird flu shows up and kills a relative so I can read the "We weren't prepared" posts that we SHOULD be seeing now. It's one thing to realize these things AFTER, but you should educate yourself on bird flu now, it will be coming up in shortly.
I'm American, I love America, but let's stop the nonsense already. I realize we're kind of stuck in a rut until 2009, but c'mon. Victims are victims, just because it doesn't happen on U.S. Soil shouldn't diminish the impact. If you want to focus on something, focus on how unprepared we are for a flu epidemic that most "experts" feel is upon us.
Senate just approved ANOTHER 50 BILLION for the wars ( http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/07/congress.defense.ap/index.html ), as we're nickel and diming this. Sounds less dramatic to steal 50 million from americans right? Meanwhile we can't stop counting the new cash in the checking account to organize a flu epidemic plan ( http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/10/08/flu.pandemic.ap/index.html ). Great, just great.
It's stuff like this that makes other countries hate us. We say how great we are, but all the facts in the papers and on the news seem to directly contradict that to anyone with an open mind.
/end rant
You know who you SHOULD donate money to? The VICTIMS OF NATURE in Indonesia and Pakistan. Who DO you donate money to? The VICTIMS OF IGNORANCE in New Orleans. Is it due to pseudo-patriotism or what? No matter how you like or dislike people of pakistan (who you don't know...), they're more deserving of money than the people in New Orleans. I live in hurricane-free Ohio and I KNOW TO NOT STAY. The people in pakistan had no warning while the people in new orleans had days.
Can't wait until bird flu shows up and kills a relative so I can read the "We weren't prepared" posts that we SHOULD be seeing now. It's one thing to realize these things AFTER, but you should educate yourself on bird flu now, it will be coming up in shortly.
I'm American, I love America, but let's stop the nonsense already. I realize we're kind of stuck in a rut until 2009, but c'mon. Victims are victims, just because it doesn't happen on U.S. Soil shouldn't diminish the impact. If you want to focus on something, focus on how unprepared we are for a flu epidemic that most "experts" feel is upon us.
Senate just approved ANOTHER 50 BILLION for the wars ( http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/07/congress.defense.ap/index.html ), as we're nickel and diming this. Sounds less dramatic to steal 50 million from americans right? Meanwhile we can't stop counting the new cash in the checking account to organize a flu epidemic plan ( http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/10/08/flu.pandemic.ap/index.html ). Great, just great.
It's stuff like this that makes other countries hate us. We say how great we are, but all the facts in the papers and on the news seem to directly contradict that to anyone with an open mind.
/end rant