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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
You know, despite over two years on TFP, I can't actually fucking believe this post.
sob, do you think this is a competition or something? By asking me how much "my country" has donated, I presume you're trying to take some self-defined and delusional high ground (or something).
I live in Australia.
Donations to Australian Red Cross alone total more than $10 million. Australians have donated $4 million to World Vision, Oxfam has taken more than $2.5 million, while CARE Australia and UNICEF have raised more than $1 million each.
The Australian government has donated $35M. That's about US$20M. And the Australian economy is vastly smaller than yours.
I'm Irish.
With regards to Ireland alone the following is a summary of current donations as of midday yesterday.
Trócaire: Has raised €2.3 million at Mass collections in four dioceses. Has already donated €500,000 to its Caritas partners in India and Sri Lanka.
Concern: Has donated €250,000, while a three-person team visited Tamil Nadu, one of India's worst-hit states, on Monday and Tuesday to make an initial assessment.
A local partner has distributed 4,000 emergency kits in Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu, with another 16,000 to be made available.
GOAL: Had received €200,000 in donations by yesterday. Has team working in Nagabattinum, capital of Tamil Nadu, where it hopes to be feeding 10,000 families by the weekend. A GOAL team left Dublin yesterday for Colombo in Sri Lanka.
Irish Red Cross: Received €50,000 on Tuesday alone. Immediate focus on Sri Lanka. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has begun a worldwide appeal for €32.3 million.
The Irish government has donated €2M (which I believe is far too little).
Are you happy now that I've given you figures?
Does it make you feel superior?
Just a quick question for you sob.
How much have YOU, personally donated?
Get off your high horse and try to help. The current death toll is around 120,000 people. Think about that figure.
120,000 dead men, women and children.
One hundred and twenty thousand...
Mr Mephisto
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Talk about high horses!!
Anyone can claim anything they want on-line in regard to their charitable donations. I'm not going to post my tax return for you.
That said, over the past ten years, I have donated thousands to charities, chief among them worldwide polio eradication. That is presently shifting toward providing drinking water free of Guinea worm in places like Ghana.
I do it through the local Rotary club, because 100% of the funds get to where they belong. When Rotary International helps with this cause, I will donate there, too.
I do NOT (unlike knee-jerk bleeding hearts) throw money at organizations who profess to be helping, but who keep up to 90% of the donations for "operating overhead."
For decades, the US government has operated in the manner you suggest, namely, gather loads of money, then distribute it willy-nilly. It doesn't work.
More thoughtful individuals try to ensure that the money gets to the right place. Unfortunately, these wise people never seem to be in our Congress.
Now, if you're finished hijacking the thread, I'll get back to the subject I brought up, namely that the UN misses no opportunity to dump on the United States. Your accusation of using this tragedy as a "cheap political mop" would more appropriately be directed at Jan Egeland, but you might have missed his name, due to your skipping over the part that mentions the huge amount of aid the US is mobilizing.
One final note:
Here's another guy who will be among the first to scream that the US is "stingy."
Helpful-looking sort, isn't he?
