Should we send help to clean up the 50,000 dead in Myanmar?

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Should we send help to clean up the 50,000 dead in Myanmar?

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(05/06/08 6:33 AM)

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The news is now reporting that 50,000 are possibly dead and that it's the worst tragedy since the '04 tsunami. Are we still considered the saviors of the world and thus obligated to send our money, help and resources to assist these ungrateful bastards when we couldn't even help our own people in New Orleans?

I can understand the pain that they must be going thru, but why can't the European Union take the lead on this kind of shit instead of us? They have a stronger economy than us and have been itching to be the primary world power for decades. How about China? They're neighbors to Burma. Why don't THEY do something constructive instead of killing peaceful Tibetan monks?

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Right on!

oh and: Fuck 'em!

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(05/06/08 6:42 AM)

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More rice for us?

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(05/06/08 6:45 AM)

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Yup.

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(05/06/08 6:47 AM)

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I can understand the pain that they must be going thru, but why can't the European Union take the lead on this kind of shit instead of us?

Yes, the US leads the way on all these things.

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I am willing to send some buckets and a few of those Mr Clean magic erasers if they need any supplies. I would offer a broom but I need it to clean my deck this time of year.

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hwamf wrote:

I can understand the pain that they must be going thru, but why can't the European Union take the lead on this kind of shit instead of us?
Yes, the US leads the way on all these things.

Actually, we do.

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(05/06/08 6:50 AM)

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Hey, buddy.....Canada sent something like $200,000 to the Tsunami survivors.

That's real money, eh?

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It makes me sad and it's a tragedy but I don't remember other countries sending us money to help with 9/11 clean-up or to help out the homeless and hungry in Katrina.

We need to take care of our own before we go tossing away money to other countries.

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clean-up or to help out the homeless and hungry in Katrina.

I know! Some of them still smell bad.

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(05/06/08 7:07 AM)

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There is an OR there.

don't twist my words fucker. I'll cut you.

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I'll be selling my old socks on eBay and donating the proceeds.

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(05/06/08 7:14 AM)

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So darlingal believes we can either help them our or scrub them clean?

Heartless bitch.

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(05/06/08 7:18 AM)

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The number of dead keeps going up. They should do something about that first.

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Do we have conformation that a model or her boyfriend has died? I don't think we can go through that again.

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Problem: 50,000 dead.
Solution: Soylent Green.

S.

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(05/06/08 7:20 AM)

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They say 30,000 missing.

They are hardly playing hide-n-seek.

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darlingal wrote:
It makes me sad and it's a tragedy but I don't remember other countries sending us money to help with 9/11 clean-up or to help out the homeless and hungry in Katrina.

We need to take care of our own before we go tossing away money to other countries.

I agree, especially with something as complicated with Myanmar, but just for the record, the EU did send millions of dollars in aid for Katrina, but the U.S. government wouldn't distribute it. Hundreds of tons of NATO rations were sent by Britain, for instance, and they were all burned. Other aid was sent and not used. It made me really pissed off, so I remember the attempt.

EU sends aid to Katrina victims

By Oana Lungescu
BBC, Brussels

EU countries are sending food and other supplies to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, after the US asked the EU and Nato for emergency help at the weekend.

Germany and the UK have already flown in more than 500,000 food rations. France is flying tents, generators and water purifying plants from Martinique, and a Dutch frigate is taking medicine and helicopters to New Orleans. Greece has offered two cruise ships to help house thousands of homeless people for several months. Tiny Luxembourg has 1,000 camp beds and 2,000 blankets at the ready, and Sweden is providing equipment to restore mobile phone networks.

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