Camille II and the world response
As has been the US policy, global aid and rebuilding of lands devastated by national disasters has accounted for roughly .10 to .20% of GDP since 1990. Now that may sound a bit stingy but it comes out to roughly 19 billion per year.
Hurricane Katrina is set to cost insurers the largest relief bill in history. Most of LA, AL, and MS are complete and total losses. This storm has been blamed for 68 deaths so far with bodies still floating down New Orleans streets. Death toll surely will not be less than 100. While this dwarfs in size to the Indonesian tsunami death toll, the property loss is much, much higher. Within hours of the now one word labeled Tsunami the US had begun assembling and shipping millions of relief funds as well as food, clothing, water and other essentials.
My question to you and to the world is - when should we expect our shipments to start arriving?
Hurricane Katrina is set to cost insurers the largest relief bill in history. Most of LA, AL, and MS are complete and total losses. This storm has been blamed for 68 deaths so far with bodies still floating down New Orleans streets. Death toll surely will not be less than 100. While this dwarfs in size to the Indonesian tsunami death toll, the property loss is much, much higher. Within hours of the now one word labeled Tsunami the US had begun assembling and shipping millions of relief funds as well as food, clothing, water and other essentials.
My question to you and to the world is - when should we expect our shipments to start arriving?
posted by disgutedem at
1:40 PM
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as you asked, from Reuters:
"Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Monday his government plans to sell as much as 66,000 barrels per day of heating fuel from its U.S. Citgo refinery to poor communities in the United States."
Robertson was right! We should have assassinated that commmie!
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mergenow, at 2:41 PM
That bastard!
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disgutedem, at 2:47 PM
On the subject of world response...
linko
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mergenow, at 8:28 PM
*** ANOTHER UPDATE ***
And what about those cursed cheese-eating, surrender monkeys in France, huh? I'll bet they're just sitting back in their berets and smoking fancy cigarettes and sneering at us!
Oh. Wait. Looks like they're sending aid, too.
Since the announcement doesn't deal much with pencils, books or common grocery items, my high school French isn't doing much here, but it looks like they're sending 35 "Civil Security" persons immediately with tents and generators, some other stuff, and some telecom specialists. Something about two battalions of marines with helicopters, too, possibly.
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mergenow, at 9:36 AM
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