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Originally Posted by Webby
jawanda:
True.. 15 million is nothing - a couple of wealthy individuals can write a check for that amount. For a country, it's peanuts. Don't even buy a decent fighter aircraft and less than the fat and oils used to cook dinner on Christmas day.
There are two worlds... one of reality and the other of "I'm OK Jack" cos they live in some lala land. The same thing happened a few years back when a hurricane hit Central America and 12,000 were killed. The most that got was a column on the back page of the US national press, but VERY little in aid. Tho other countries did help, but things are still not back to "normality" years later.
It is good to hear the US is actually doing something - it would be more than embarassing if it did not. Tho it took long enough to be a "story" in the media there - when you look at coverage in the media elsewhere.
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It is opportunity time.
I cant remember the country or the exact cause but a friend of mine has a brother that went down to help out after some big disaster.
He now owns one of the biggest construction companies in the country and gets many government contracts. People always remember when you help them when they are down on their luck.