do you really think any country leader would donate without it being published? you must not understand politics very well...

Nobody HAS to donate...

Good for Bush exposing himself for what he is, which is a moron dressed up in an adult's body.

$10k from a guy worth $13 million? The President of the World no less.

Quite a telling example.

Hey, it's $10k more for the people of the disaster, but it's a joke, a comical joke.

I wonder what George Senior, worth somewhere around $200 million off the back of Saudi Inc., gave? $20K?

Thank God average Americans gave more per capita than the President.

I'd say it's the exact opposite - despite his pointless little rants he seems to have a better understanding than you :)

One, rather pathetic (given his resources) good thing does not cancel out all the rather major fuck ups this guy has had over the last four years. It only reinforces the half ass way he has handled nearly everything in my opinion.

Maybe Jesus told him 10k. Who knows?

Sorry for the rant guys... it just really rubbed me the wrong way. Can ya tell? :1orglaugh

how can it be the exact opposite?

not publishing it cannot influence a leader's reputation in any way because people have no way to know whether he donated or not...

although, usually the common tendancy is to believe the negative case in such situations...

The 350 million the US donated is your money the tax payers. So the goverment has to think about how much they donate. They money donated by individual citizens and the rest of the U.S. will end up being in the billions. So don't worry about how much other countries are donating. In the end the U.S. will have given the most in aid and money.

Uh no.... Just don't feel like wasting time.

Anyone with half a brain can see through your weak veil and I'm done addressing you.


"Unedicated and uninformed americans ... LOL"
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...0&page=2&pp=50

"Half of the Americans are as stupid as him"
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...59#post3910659

"Because a lot of americans are illeterate"

And many more... easy to find for anyone who wants to.

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/search.php?searchid=1986

I love people hating on the US - It is hard to be number 1.

First - I don't see any news sources saying Bush gave any money personally.

Second - The US is doing far more than any other country can. The number of ships and air transport that the US is providing can be done by no other.

Just admit that all you non-US citizens wish you were! ;)

have any other world leaders given a personal donation?

Lol, that's just ridiculous...

Last I checked, the US was only #4 or #5 in the list. Germany, Australia and China I believe were bigger contributors

To put this in perspective, say you take his $13,000,000 and assume its liquid/semi-liquid, then his $10,000 donation is just .07% of his wealth. Not even 1%.

Now, of course alot of that isnt really liquid, and its not like he has 13,000,000 stashed away in the bank, or even stocks, so lets just say for arguments sake that he as 1,000,000 thats liquid. Now his $10,000 donation comes out to just 1%.

To put that in perspective, say you have $30K in the bank account, thats same as you donating $300.

That in no way is generous. Its a donation, a sizable one, but not generous. Generosity is proportional, based on how much you have and how much you give.

He would need to give on the order of 10x more for it to be generous, then its more like 10% of his quick liquid money. Thats truly generous. Just like $3K out of the bank if you had $30K in there.


Just my :2 cents:

one of the 100 richest persons in the world, Spyros Latsis donated 200k euro I think, so accordingly the US president donated a largest %

it all goes down the drain once you give yourself a label some politicians thought of....

My point exactly. Thank you!

:thumbsup

I seriously doubt that he has $1,000,000 that is liquid. Why would he... or anyone else...whose net worth is $13,000,000 have a $1,000,000 liquid? He probably has some semi liqiud assets that he could withdraw from. A more realistic view would be...what percentage of his annual income...does $10,000 represent.

Im not assuming that he has 1,000,000 that is strictly liquid, but Im sure he has some investments which he can quickly sell off to extract that amount of cash from without too much devaluation on his original position.

Oh, I know these figures arent up to date, but I beleive the last time I checked years ago the Presidential salary was $250,000, so $10,000 out of just his salary is still only 4%, only marginally better considering how much income he is making off the books with kickbacks etc.

damn, he is being mad fucking cheap.

president only makes 100k a year. He isnt that rich.

I think a President now makes $400,000.00 per year...but I do not have any idea how much his annual explenses are...that come from his salary.

A US pres makes 400K a year. But regardless, I haven't seen that this story is actually true and doubt that it is.

thats fucking sad!

All that time in the oil biz and as gov of Texas and he's only worth 13 million? Damn...that says enough right there...

If what you say is true than how much, if any, did your country leader personally donate? Or any other leader (personally) for that matter?

I think if Bush had even half a brain he would at least follow Tony Blairs lead and keep it private :link
"His spokeswoman confirmed the Blair family had made a personal donation but would not reveal the amount."

WTF do they teach you in that school you are going to AlexG?

Proof!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/...ion/index.html

All your posts make you sound like a whiny teenage punk.
You actually make all the Bush-bashers look good :1orglaugh

The President has not made 100k a year since 1958. At that point it was raised to 250k and if memory servers me.. it was raised to 400k in the Clinton Admin.

His documented net worth is 13 million based on last years tax returns. Thats not crazy rich, but its sure not poor. ;)

Why has this become a thing to compete about. Give them money that is needed, and get the fuck over it.

It all goes down the drain when you try to argue with me and you have no clue what the fuck your talking about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum

I guess at any level of donation, you would not be happy.

This is charity, and not required.

Thats not the case at all. What I hate more is his boosting about it and opening up for the public to review. Im glad he donated something....im not happy that he sets himself up to be the saviour of the world, sarifices american and other alies lives, yet gives so little of himself.

The way I look at it, he opened himself up for this one. I love my country, but am continually embarress by our president.

Just my opinion. Like many have said, its not a competition and even giving the smallest of amounts can make a difference. However, one should lead by example. The bar was lowered today, by the very person who should have raised it.

:2 cents:

lol, our own HighonAcid donated 50k, he smoked bush's donation. i find that pretty funny.

Countries are now trying to out do each other in donations and the only fuckers laughing are the UN ... Those fuckers will end up skimming a nice fat % off the top.

That Kofie fucker is now playing the media game saying the UN should take control ... yeah right you corupt fucker, like you did in iraq skimming US$21,000,000,000.00 off to your son and mates ... you ass fucker .... fucker needs to be POSION like VERMAN so he spews his insides out and bleeds likes a dying RAT! ... But seems every fucker likes to lick his ASS!

But how do you really feel? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

PerfectionGirls:

He was just trying hard to be nice - normality will be restored soon :1orglaugh

Pity any info on people's contributions are every mentioned - it's got nothing to do with anyone what any individual donates.

If Bush dumped a $1mill into the pot - he'd still get verbal abuse :-)







PS.. I know I'm not mean't to defend Bush.. but what the hell! :1orglaugh

Billy Bob.. is that you boy?

Michael Schumacher (Formual One driver) just donated 10 million dollars - now thats a contribution to be proud of.

This is what i'd like to see from more overpaid athletes, actors, performers etc. we support them all buy buying tickets to see the events, shows, etc, they got the money - and they have the ability to make a difference!

error :1orglaugh

Im not a bush supporter, in fact id like to see him dead but whats wrong with him donating $10,000? Thats more than me and most people i know donated and just because you have money doesnt mean other people have to right to get it from you. Im sure if people in your city walked up to you and said "Well you make $400,000 per year so we are going to take $100,000 of your money and give it to the local library. We're also going to take your bmw and donate it to a teen who lost his brother to a drunk driver". As long as he donated something thats all that matters, im sure that $10,000 will provide water for many people.

do you have proof?
I can't believe this is true

I bet you didnt give as much!

theres no way that nigga is only worth 13 million

its the same as an average american who would donate less than $1

First, he makes a lot more than 100K as president.

Second, he is rich - his $ from being prez is just a bonus.

Third, I bash Bush as much as anyone, but he gave $10k more than I did. Any donation is a help so even if it's small compared to his wealth, he is helping.

(Now if someone could convince him to redirect some of his millions to help the US soldiers dying for his personal war then ... aww, never mind)

It was live on german television - and i read it today in a danish newspaper aswell.

Better then nothing I guess.

Being as smart as he is , perhaps he thought he was donating 10 mil, but wasn't quit sure how many zeros that was. R E T A R D

i must admit, that is pretty embarassing :upsidedow