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What don't New Orleans, Haiti and Japan have in common? (pg. 3)
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| tubularbills |
yes, I was unsure of what the article was referring to and was hoping for clarification from the OP.
also, Lira, why did you post a video of gas prices? |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| palm, you're stupid. |
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| dj_alfi |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
All in all, the three disasters are very hard to compare on numerous scales. |
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| srussell0018 |
| themselfs. LOL! |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
On a serious and more literate note, Katrina almost completely decimated a city of over a million people. I'm not entirely sure about the exact numbers, but the Tsunami in Japan cause the evacuation of not even half that total.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/data...-donations#data
If you look at that site, you'll see that the US donated 4 times as much money to Haiti as the next highest country's donations. Whether it came from individual citizens or not, calling Americans s when their country donated 4 times as much money as the next is kind of misguided don't you think? |
How is $218,669,974 "four times as much" as $169,854,764 (Canada's total)? Secondly, the US has a population of 307 million people, as opposed to Canada's 34 million. If Americans had donated at the same rate as the Canadians, they would have pledged around $1,500,000,000.
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/dat...2011/versions/1 |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
I'm not even American you ing moron. |
What are you then? |
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| srussell0018 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
How is $218,669,974 "four times as much" as $169,854,764 (Canada's total)? Secondly, the US has a population of 307 million people, as opposed to Canada's 34 million. If Americans had donated at the same rate as the Canadians, they would have pledged around $1,500,000,000.
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/dat...2011/versions/1 |
| quote: | Haiti Aid Pledged By Country
Country Committed Funding
United States 41,268,315
Sweden 9,999,997
United Kingdom 8,086,517
Japan 7,159,000
Canada 6,815,969 |
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| runcmd |
| quite funny that sweden (which is about 8mill persons) gave 10 mill while the us are like 310mill gave 41 mill. poor bastards, how can you live with yourselfs! shame on you. youre a third world country! |
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| srussell0018 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
What are you then? |
Check the flag. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| No, you're obviously Arab. |
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