A Minute Of Your Time

The counter-argument to this - and I don't say I subscribe to it - is that the economy of the entire country runs on tourist dollars. Unless the resorts are rebuilt, people will starve as soon as the "disaster aid" runs out. Or, they will take to other pursuits such as narcotics cultivation, which is said to translate directly into increased street crime in first-world countries.

I'm not sure whose head is up whose ass ;-)

The only aid we should provide should be for restoration of health and safety.

Giving money so that resorts can be rebuilt is foolish. Let the resort's insurance cover that. If they don't have insurance... tough!

...Jim Thompson

I know my relatives have complained about the Red Cross. For instance, they give out donuts to American soldiers in front of cameras, then take them and give them to officers after the pictures are taken. And every few years exposes of their corruption is publicized.

You left out the Salvation Army, which I have not heard negative complaints of corruption about.

And here is a rant I posted to the misc.survivalism newsgroup. I think Americans aught to support our soldiers, exploited for globalist elitism (see Burket et al.), before they support nations that have refused to aid America in its hours of need:

I said:"

It seams somebody actually managed to get his head up his ass literally and still being able to type a message. Wow!

Let's give to the French Aid Agencies, We wouldn't want them to look bad, only giving $136,000. ;-)

Mike Tongue firmly in cheek.

Oops, the name's Barnett.

The problem with global welfare is you make people dependent on it. A number of failed states live off it. Saw a documentary about some areas in Russia where the communists reorganized (socialized) tribal cultures and built cities where they are not economically viable. Families disintegrate and people turn to alcohol and drugs, because they have no productivity, creativity, purpose or self esteem.

I read in sci.electronics.design that Scott Stephens wrote (in ) about 'A Minute Of Your Time', on Wed, 29 Dec 2004:

Aren't there similar problems with tribal cultures in one or two other countries?

Perspective: Disaster that is is, the casualties are about 1/4 the annual death rate in Sri Lanka. The property damage is much less that the Hurricanes hitting Florida!

So there are still about 20 million people in the country who are not involved in the areas which were hit. We only need to deal with the injuries and sanitation problems created in those areas which took the damage!

BTW a C130 can land on an unprepared field in a lot less space than a '707' sized plane. Also, there is an airbase that they will use as an operations center with helicopters to distribute the supplies.

Of course; I researched some demographics a while back (sorting out some IQ propaganda about red and blue states) and was led to a list of the world's countries productivity.

Several countries are basically welfare states; they produce nothing and consume aid. It would seem best to gently remove the aid while enabling relocation. But who wants third-world lamers around?

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A number of years back a hurricane (typhoon in the pacific?) hit the Virgin Islands, and the peasants went on a looting rampage. Tourism was down for years, IIRC.

I suppose anyone who goes there will see it (unless this code is dependent on IP address), but care's website is not working as I write this, it gives this error message:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'

Type mismatch: 'major'

/includes/common.asp, line 18

It's of course a really bad time for their website to be down, and also a bad advertisement for Microsoft (even if the problem is the code written by the web designer).

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Think about tribal cultures much closer to home. Your home.

The university "Aristocracy of Pull" has nominated DeVry fast-trackers as their n****rs. I have no obligation to honor any social conventions of the aristocracy. Checks they write with my name on them will bounce. The police should charge them for forgery. If they charge me, well, I'll escape from tyranny as best I can.

Don't worry. Knowing Asian people, they don't need our money to rebuild the resorts. There is enough money and cheap hands around there to do that by them selfes. BTW: Yesterday I heard some British tourists already arrived in Thailand for a holiday in the disaster region. The hotel owner guaranteerd them a perfect holiday.

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Thanks for posting that Chris. All too inadequate donation made. And what a contrast in attitude between yours and the ranting nutcase responses some have posted.

Paul Burke