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That's kind of the direction I was going yesterday with Ty (i.e., that the only proper end for government spending is to help US tax payors).

I did, however, give a private donation.

From the sounds on the ground, what they all really need is:

- kerosene
- heavy equipment
- water
- meds

and, most importantly,

- NO MORE USED CLOTHING.

(From a good blog by a guy wandering around the desolation)

http://indiauncut.blogspot.com/

Our best response is probably to get the military in there ASAP, with offshore delivery of labor and equipment to start body disposal, followed by sanitation experts, and sufficient resources to implement what those experts want.

And, all you rich lawyers, go to Amazon now, at

http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/...704607-4258367

Anybody bitching about our government's stinginess who hasn't been particularly generous personally at this point is simply unmasked as someone for whom it is very important to give away Other People's Money only, and I can't see a lot of moral weight in that.

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Those 125,000+ dead from the tsunami?

Just collateral damage from God's chosen method of wiping out 2,000 Swedish homosexuals. (Spree: worksafe article)

According to our friends at Westboro Baptist Church.

Just for leagle
 

From the same friends, celebration of the decimation of the "fag towers" and the resulting decrease in diseased fag feces and semen. Yep.

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We could offer a $100 billion prize to the first country in the region to establish a real democracy. $50 billion to the runner-up.

[bilmore]You think it's possible in Ukraine but not in the Middle East because the people are swarthy and primitive?[/bilmore]

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I'm afraid it's not working and not going to work, and that we are wasting too much money and too many lives as we watch the country make tighter and tighter spirals in the toilet bowl.

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How come you are so ready to trot out the libertarian objection to helping people, but don't think that way when we discuss blowing them up?

I think the point was that no one has been bitching about our government's stinginess.

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When we had our first election 95% of the land was under the control of people seen as savages.

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We're more PC now. We just call them Red States.

And, for those who may not know -- CNN.com has a page up for tsunami relief aid which contains links to the web pages of several dozen international charities/relief organizations. Easy way to check them out, make a choice, and make an electronic donation.

S_A_M

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Okay, please square this with the billions spent in Iraq. Extra credit if you can show the benefit to the US taxpayers who have died in the conflict.

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That is a great, but purely academic idea. Perhaps it would work if we made the number much, much, larger and therefore gave those that have to give up power a real incentive. However, that I think defeats your purpose (i.e., to save costs).

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I am not a pure libertarian. I also think, in the long run, we are helping them.

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Let me guess. You were one of those people that didn't see the benefit to US tax payors in putting pershing missles in Germany, right?