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  Aaron Dear obama, How many countries got together to help us when hurricane Katrina hit???? No answer? NONE!!!! So why in the hell are we sending money to Hati? i do feel bad for them don't get me wrong but I think its stupid that we are sending money to another country when we can even keep ours going. And where is my funding for scholarships? i need them to. Its probably cause im white. keep up the crappy job
  
  Kyle There were over 70 countries that helped America after Hurricane Katrina. Shit, even Cuba and Venezuela had sent help and support before Bush ordered the National Guard to assist in helping. What we have sent to Haiti is SHIT compared to what was sent to us after Katrina. Kuwait donated 500 million, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates donated 100 million each, with us getting over 150 million from all the other countries.
  
  
• Another site asks: Why should we help Haiti?
  
  • It is a good question. If this happened in the US would anyone come to our aid? No i bet not, yet we jump to help every other country in the world, Yet we can't take care of our own. How many people in America are living on the streets? How many people go hungry day in and day out? How many children go without even the basics because their parents lost their jobs? How many children are in the system because their parents cant take care of them? Yes it is very sad what happened to Haiti. I am not saying don't help, but at some point America has to wake up and take care of their own people for once. Stop playing mother to every other country in the world instead of its own children.
    
    
  • Honestly, we shouldn't. God/whoever you believe in sent the earthquake to eliminate a nation who could not fend for themselves. What is money going to do? They have been receiving aid for years and years and they spend it on pointless things. They still feed their children mud to eat. They did this way before the earthquake. We definately should not help Haiti.
    
    
  • Because we have a responsibility. However, I do find it ironic that we can shell over hundreds of millions of dollars for Haiti within days of the disaster, when it took ages for anyone to do sh*t for Lousiana after Katrina hit.
    
    Note: there were also replies saying that the US should help because it was the right thing to do whether other countries ever helped the US or not, and two from New Orleans who noted that they had received help from others.
  
  
  
• And another Facebook discussion
  Michael Stott Yolanda I am calling you out.....Show me one instance of another country sending troops or money to help with either 9/11 or Katrina. I was at both, there was no help besides us Americans!
  
  Tracey McCoy Block I am tired of United States taking care of other countries, and how do they thank us?!! bombing the twin towers high jacking planes killing women and children. they never helped us when are Americans going to wake up - we need to take care of our soliders,the unemployed, and get ourselves out the trillion dollar debt that obama has pushed us in
  
  John Daniel Hayes i agree Tracey.Thats what I mean by every man for their selves!
  
  
• Disasters Statistics > Hurricane Katrina > International aid response (most recent) by country
  
  
  • Australia: AUD 10 million and a team of 20 emergency response officers immediately. Australia is donating 8 million to American Red Cross.
    
    
  • Cambodia: The king donated USD 20,000 to match the USD 20,000 Cambodian government donation.
    
    
  • Canada: September 5, 35 military divers were poised to depart by air Sunday from Halifax and Esquimalt, B.C., for the New Orleans area.September 4, On the request from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Canada send thousands of beds, blankets, surgical gloves and dressings and other medical supplies. On September 2 the Government of Canada announced it was sending three warships along with a Coast Guard vessel, and three Sea King helicopters to the area. Over 1,000 personnel are involved in the operation, including engineers and navy divers. The Canadian Heavy Urban Search and Rescue out of Vancouver has been in Louisiana since September 1, due to security they started their mission on Sept 3. Ontario Hydro, Hydro-Québec, and Manitoba Hydro, along with other electrical utilities, have crews set to go to the affected areas. On September 2 Air Canada participated along with U.S. member airlines of the Air Transport Association, in a voluntary airline industry initiative to support rescue and relief operations.
    
    The Government of Nova Scotia donated $100,000 towards the Red Cross effort. This was followed on September 8 when the Government of Alberta announced that it was donating $5 million. (Entry too long, see this if you're interested)
    
    
  • Cuba: Offering to send 1,586 doctors and 26 tons of medicine. The doctors await permission to enter the US.
    
    
  • France: Concrete help was refused by the USA at first, but on 2 September, Condoleezza Rice said that the US authorities would assess the situation and contact French authorities accordingly. On September 4, US authorities formally requested French assistance. France offered disaster relief stocks prepositioned in Martinique (600 tents, around 1000 beds, 60 electrogenic groups, 3 pumps, 3 water purification stations, 1000 folding jerricanes and other material). A 35-person team of the Sécurité civile (Civil defence) from Guadeloupe and Martinique is ready, and a 60-man "catastrophe intervention" aeromobile detachment could be ferried from mainland in a short time. The Ministry of Defence offers 2 planes already in the zone and 6 more from mainland France, and two ships of the French Navy (probably the BATRAL Francis Garnier or Champlain, and the frigate Ventôse) and a 20-person team of emergency medical specialists. The non-governmental organisation Télécoms sans frontières and the company Véolia environnement have offered aid in communications and water management, respectively. On September 7, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs stated that an Airbus Beluga from Toulouse with 12,7 tonnes of supplies is flying to Mobile, after a brief stop in the UK to load more food. 2 Casa airplanes from Martinique have landed in Little Rock, ferrying tents, covers and 1000 rations of food for 24 hours.
    
    
  • Germany: Two German Army Airbus planes landed in Florida with about 25 tonnes of food rations to be transported to the disaster area. Further planes were prepared. Germany offered airlifting, vaccination, water purification, medical supplies including German air force hospital planes, emergency electrical power and pumping services. The aid is ready to go on German air force and chartered planes. A team of specialists from THW (German federal agency for technical relief) is planning technical measures and logistics in close contact with local authorities. A team of 89 flood fighting specialists and 5 medical personnel has been dispatched from Ramstein Airbase to Louisiana by the American Air Force. They will bring 15 high performance pumps (10 pumps with a capacity of 15,000 litres per minute and 5 pumps with a capacity of 5,000 litres per minute) and 28 vehicles. On Saturday September 10 4:30 pm the THW started the first 15,000 litres pump at pumping-station No. 19. Three other 15,000 litres pumps will follow. The pumping out of New Orleans would have taken much more time if these pumps and the THW specialists had not been provided. The Minister-President of the federal state of Rheinland-Pfalz has addressed a letter to the commanders of the American forces stationed in his state offering financial support to those affected by the flooding. Another German Air Force cargo plane carrying several thousand military rations (MRE) was denied entry into US airspace since, according to US authorities, they were not certified BSE-free. This was disputed by German authorities, pointing out that they were BSE-free according to NATO rules, that US soldiers would eat them regularly during joint operations (e.g. Afghanistan) and that these meals fully complied to UN rules.
    
    
  • Iraq: Has pledged USD 1 million Red Cross via the Red Crescent.
  
  
  
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