My beef with the world.

Hectic Glenn said:
Fair enough, but the USA will fix that, they do not need aid, or people to look a the situation and think 'oh dear what a tradegy'. Those people are homeless indeed, but alive thank god. The dead toll is small compared to what it could have been. So homeless indeed, but it can be rectified.
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Yeah, and all the tsunami victims could have fished for food and built shanties out of the debris with that attitude.
 
i must say we all should work together. but its a matter of 'does america want us to help/ does asia care about america?
 
they only care about us when we are tossing money and assistance at them.
 
gh0st said:
they only care about us when we are tossing money and assistance at them.
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They don't care about us then either, if the US stayed out of foreign crap completely it'd be so much better off.
 
Anyone who thinks the people affected are too proud to accept foreign aid aren't thinking straight.
 
gh0st said:
they only care about us when we are tossing money and assistance at them.
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i agree, they were mad when america didnt splash out and help, but now americas in need, most countries turn thier back.
 
gh0st said:
they only care about us when we are tossing money and assistance at them.
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... and you only care about them... oh, that's right... never.

America is not "in need"... in fact, before Bush, we had a surplus that was 4 or 5 times larger than the estimated monetary cost of Katrina. Our GDP is something like 1/5 that of the entire world. Also, building a big city on weak ground at sea level in a hurricane-prone area was not our best idea. It would be like Bill Gates expecting the average person to donate money if his house had burnt down... after he built it out of match sticks and lighter fluid.

Anyway, I forgot who did it... but comparing Katrina to the tsunami is like comparing the common cold to Ebola or the bubonic plague. The death toll, even with the inflated numbers being thrown around, is not even a hundredth that of the tsunami. Imagine if every single seat in the Superdome (about 72,000) was filled... and there were an extra 30-40 thousand people piled on the field. Now, imagine if it they all died in a single day. That was the offical death toll of the tsunami. The death toll of Katrina has, so far, been less than enough to fill a single 747.
 
OCybrManO said:
Also, building a big city on weak ground at sea level in a hurricane-prone area was not our best idea. It would be like Bill Gates expecting the average person to donate money if his house had burnt down... after he built it out of match sticks and lighter fluid.
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Okay, look. This point needs to stop being brought up.

The US did not EXIST when New Orleans was built. It was not OUR bad idea. France built it.

New Orleans was NOT below sea level when it was built.

The Europeans' knowledge of hurricanes in the gulf was limited at best back then, so you can't fault them for building the city there.

There was a river that flowed into a nearby ocean, making it a great spot for a harbor. That's why they built New Orleans.

Now shut up about the US building a city in a hurricane-prone region below sea level.
 
gh0st - Ok, so 1000 people die. Thats not all that different from 100, in terms of percentages of the population, even local. And its also irrelivent to the discussion. (Yes, I realise I'm the one that started on the numbers of it, but thats before I realised what it was you were cross about).

The crux is, you don't feel that people care about your problem. So, as I asked before, what would you have us do? Send you money? Come help rebuild? Just stop and feel sympathy for a minute?
 
Giving money to charities and specify that it be used for hurricane relief would be fine for me...
 
Steve_O said:
Okay, look. This point needs to stop being brought up.

The US did not EXIST when New Orleans was built. It was not OUR bad idea. France built it.

New Orleans was NOT below sea level when it was built.

The Europeans' knowledge of hurricanes in the gulf was limited at best back then, so you can't fault them for building the city there.

There was a river that flowed into a nearby ocean, making it a great spot for a harbor. That's why they built New Orleans.

Now shut up about the US building a city in a hurricane-prone region below sea level.
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No one was forcing them to live there though...
 
Link said:
No one was forcing them to live there though...
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No, the utter poverty that a great deal of the residents there live in DID force them to live there.

Also, if that's what you mean, then say that. "Build" and "live in" are two very different things.
 
Canada has offered to send aid (equipment, troops) to the US.
And I'm going to donate $20 to the Red Cross tomorrow.

The ones whining about the world not caring about this, did you donate to the tsunami relief? I doubt it. And even though I'm under the impression that the most powerful country in the world does not need my $20, I'm giving anyway. I mean, if your government can afford a 200 billion dollar (and counting) war, I'm sure it can afford 50 billion to rebuild New Orleans.
 
US can support itself, with this mess. We have enough helicopters to rescue/save people. All I can see we need is food/water for those in-need. Donations like that from the world would be great.
 
diluted said:
And I'm going to donate $20 to the Red Cross tomorrow.
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That's the spirit.
diluted said:
The ones whining about the world not caring about this, did you donate to the tsunami relief?
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I certainly did, and I doubt ghost or vigilante would be so up-in-arms if they were being hypocritical about the whole mess.
 
im not up in arms.. im not surprised or angry.
 
... and you only care about them... oh, that's right... never.
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Obviously some people over here cared about them when America donated 1.981 billion dollars to the tsunami relief effort. Dont patronize me, you have no idea what I care about or who I choose to donate my money to.
KoreBolteR said:
i might donate to new orleans too...but how?
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Red Cross.
 
TheAmazingRando said:
Hurricanes and Tornadoes are not more extreme, we get big ones every 50 years or so.
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We get one every 10 years, and right now we're way over due for one...

And I fail to see how earthquakes are related to global warming.
 
you guys can remove your thumbs frome each others asses right about... now.
 
Hey, I'm closer to this than any of ya'll, personally (save maybe RT) and geographically, so I'll joke as much as I like, gh0st.
 
I was hit by the hurricane also! Even tho it was very weak...but still!
 
MrWhite said:
I hope you realize that it was the rest of the world that TRIED to help you back in the Kyoto Now project...

for those who are unaware of what that is, I'll explain.

You see, both the tsunami and katrina are the spawn of global warming. The only country to not sign the Kyoto Now project reform for global warming? America.
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NEWSFLASH: TSUNAMIS ARE CREATED BY EARTHQUAKES, ****WAD.

SECOND NEWSFLASH: ALTHOUGH MANY SCIENTISTS AGREE WITH GLOBAL WARMING THEORIES, ALL AGREE THAT THIS IS A PART OF THE NORMAL HURRICANE CYCLE.

Good god how could you be so ignorant? :/

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Edit2: Thanks Canada and Venezuela.
 
Haha I always laugh at how quick people are to point the finger on global warming for the worlds problems...an underground earthquake caused by "rising temperatures"...lmao..

as for the hurricane, there have been much worse hurricanes in the early 20th century...is it global warming's fault?
 
Seriously, this isn't the worst hurricane ever. It's just WHERE IT HIT that made it so bad.
 
Steve_O said:
Hey, I'm closer to this than any of ya'll, personally (save maybe RT) and geographically, so I'll joke as much as I like, gh0st.
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Hehe, my cousin might be sent out there since hes in the Coast Guard, dunno yet though.
 
Steve_O said:
Hey, I'm closer to this than any of ya'll, personally (save maybe RT) and geographically, so I'll joke as much as I like, gh0st.
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i dont care about you joking (though i dont think its particularly funny having police officers shot in the head by looters, having to put the national guard in a militant offensive role as opposed to a "rescue" mode, and having 10 feet of stagnant piss water all around peoples homes), but it just seems gay that you are wasting so many posts trying to find out my mood which neither of you quite got.
 
My beef with the world

I really hate people who drive slow in the fast lane

and then there's express checkout lines in supermarkets, there's nothing "express" about them. You have 4 guys waiting in line scratching their ass while some trainee fumbles with the cash register. Food should be free ..walk right up to ronald mcdonald and say: "give me a freakin cheese burger you stoopid clown"

and do you think I could possibly get a decent cup of coffee out of a vending machine? We find a cure for polio yet they cant figure out how to brew a decent cup of coffee without some joe-i'mboredofmyjob-scho pouring it for me?!!
 
CptStern said:
I really hate people who drive slow in the fast lane
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Yeah those people piss me off aswell. Whats even more weak is going under the speed limit in the fast lane! :flame:
 
Steve_O said:
Seriously, this isn't the worst hurricane ever. It's just WHERE IT HIT that made it so bad.
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QFT. New Orleans is lower than sea level..man that sucks. :(
 
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