By GottaLaff
The following comments were responses to my post of yesterday, "U.S. Should Not Help Haiti Earthquake Victims".
Ignorance is even more widespread than I previously thought:
- And there's this, by either the same or a different "Anonymous". If only they weren't so afraid to post a name or pseudonym, we'd know for sure:
Anonymous said... [in part]
You hippies gotta learn the Federal and State governments are NOT charities and shouldn't operate as such, they are there to GOVERN. The money is the taxpayers, and they have no right to use it for charity. If you think money should be sent to Haiti, YOU send it. Communists.
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Dear "I don't recall":
Countries and organizations that offered to send aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, mentioned by the State Department, included Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, the European Union, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, International Energy Agency, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, NATO, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Organization of American States, Oman, OPEC, Pakistan, Paraguay, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, United Kingdom, the United Nations, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Venezuela and the World Health Organization.
Haiti offered $36k aid to US after KatrinaT1 adds Mexico to the list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina they stepped in to help out along with a ton of others
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