All around the world anytime there is a natural disaster and needs cleanup the United States is one of the first countries to step up and help them out. They pledge people and countless amounts of money that they do not have to try to get their neighbours back on their feet in their time of need. Hurricane Sandy straight up wrecked New York. Where is the support from other countries to pay them back and help out the Americans in what is a brutal devastating time of need? Look at the help we received from south of the border even in the aftermath of the Halifax explosion. I am ashamed that there has not been the rush to help from the highest levels. There has been no response from us at all. WE are the country known for helping others. —Doesn’t Feel Very Canadian
This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2012.
I made a donation to the American Red Cross – I think we can show the Americans our love without waiting for our government to do it!
Americans have caused more global harm than good. You make them sound like angels OP…
“Americans have caused more global harm than good”
Bullshit.
I don’t think most of the countries the United States has helped are in a position to return the favor. The US also doesn’t usaully accept offered help, they can’t be the top of the food chain leaning on another countries crutch. They have a large military which is being utilized, they have disaster releif funds which are being utilized. You do have a point, but like I had said we’re probably the only country that is in a position to help…… if they want it.
There HAS been a response form Canada; parts of whihc you’ll hear about in the news….
In case anyone else has trouble like I did trying to donate (State and ZIP are built into the form on the American Red Cross site, even if you select another country lol), you can do it through the Canadian Red Cross as they have a special fund set up for Sandy. Here at the top of this page: http://www.redcross.ca/donate.asp
Thanks Dartmouthy. Much appreciated.
Haiti is still recovering from numerous natural disasters in the past few years. They are in fact, still in worse shape than the American East Coast. Just a thought about where the much needed donations go.
we will send them a bunch of high heel shoes, like they did in japan a few years back. or we could send them our oil reserves, that they will try to take soon, anyway. yeah, i get that they help other countries, but there is usually a hidden price tag with it. flame me all you want, but that is how they work stateside.
it’s a scratch your back, you scratch mine later deal, and let us put weapons of destruction in your country, or pay us back the billions we gave you in aid. it is all just political with them.canada has donated more shit over the years than the u.s. could ever do, without all the bullshit to go along with it.
look back in history o.p., what have they ever done, without expecting a payback of some kind. i really do feel sorry for those that lost everything, but hell, that’s what insurance is for. and also i am sorry for the families that lost in. that of course, can never be made whole again, by any means.
America doesn’t usually accept offered help!?!?!?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503983_162-486…
And it hit fucking wall street… I’m pretty sure they have enough cash to cover the costs of cleaning up the place a bit.
who cares what country it is or what their politics, past/present/future are? underneath it all they are just human beings. find a charity you trust to get the money on the ground and do it.
zZz, point taken. But having financial transactions that arn’t plastered on the front page and all over the news is alot different then having foreign troops on your soil handing out supplies and cleaning up, then having their pictures taken and publicized as the ones who cleaned up and fixed the mess. I think you took what I said out of context. On a side note, I just saw on the news that Haiti is giving away box lunches, water bottles and setting up cell phone charging stations. No wait, that was in New York. Glad the donations are going there.
And zZz, they were offered alot of help after Katrina. Did they take it? Nope. Canadian war ships went down, did they accomplish anything? Nope, they were underemployed and sent out to work areas that were overwhelmed with volunteers already. They couldn’t have another country showing them up. Like I said, you took what I said out of context.
I wonder if Obama is going to be demonized for Sandy, the way Dubya was for Katrina?
Perhaps that’s why he’s hanging out with Tony Soprano.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/31/…
True… but maybe next time you’ll be more careful choosing your words.
As far as disaster relief efforts, they tend to try to rely on their own..
but that could also be because their tourism and foreign policies have left them with few global friends on which they could even be able to lean.
And we gave them a butt-load of help in Katrina… beds, divers, relief ships, saved many many American lives… I remember being in New York during the weeks of aftermath and that’s pretty much all CNN showed. (not that CNN is any authoritative source for news… but still)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_resp…
No, I won’t choose my words more carefully next time. You should not take things out of context, the bitch was not about the financial situation. It was about the disaster relief efforts. Once again, be more carefull about taking things out of context next time. Also, you know nothing of our involvement in Katrina. I was on the ground in Biloxi for over three weeks, day in, day out. At the time I was in uniform, you know nothing of what happened other then what our superior officers had told the media. Any pictures to back up the Wikipedia article? Nope, its all talk.
The US also did not ask the Chinese for help in the article you linked. Look at how buy outs and investments work. You will learn that ANY country with the money could have done what the Chinese did. So they did not ask for help in your example, don’t take things out of context.
More semantics. I had also said usually, that does not mean they never do. So even if the example you gave was correct and applied, my statement of “usually” would still be correct. Thats still only if you had given a relevant example, now I need a hobby. Dammit zZz.
The Federal Reserve Bank (A privately owned & controled entity) has been printing 40 billion a month since September/12 to prop up their housing market, has printed trillions of dollars to prop up other banks, other countries & the USA ….they need any money, all they gotta do is hire a night shift & turn those presses on 24/7
Problem solved (or as solved as aqny idiot in American Banking & Politics will ever solve anything !)
Guyute must be tired of calling everybody an “apologist” on the CBC.ca message boards and made his/her triumphant return to LTWWB. Or nukka is very patriotic.
I know N.S. Power has sent some personnel to Connecticut to help restore power. New York or New Jersey in particular? I’m not sure.
It was a natural disaster, part of the danger of living on the coast, especially in the onset of climate change. It’s really not about politics.
Sadly, just about anything can be made into a political issue these days, troodon.
“America causes more trouble blah blah imperialist blah blah bullshit”. Who’d ever visit indymedia, though, if all the articles were on how the US kicks the shit out of everyone else in contributions to the UN’s world Food Program?
Oh, wait, you’re probably going to bitch about how much gluten is in their donated grain now, aren’t you?
Just stfu and help a neighbor out, already.
US Invaded more countries and caused more wars and devastation globally than anyone has. They were the only country to use Nukes.
I think the picture paints itself here! But that’s not a reason for innocent people in the US to be blamed for their political corruption nor should they suffer for it. A lot of the American public has views that differ from that of the political agenda.
“US Invaded more countries and caused more wars and devastation globally than anyone has.”
Bullshit.
The Chinese Communist Party of Mao Tse Tung killed more people in 20 years than the Americans have in 240.
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union killed more people in 70 years than the Americans have in 240.
The National Socialist German Worker’s Party of Adolf Hitler killed more people in 12 years than the American have in 240.
The Americans used nuclear weapons to end a global war that killed an estimated 600 million people, mostly in China and Eastern Europe.
By all means be open to “Critical Thinking” but not so open of mind that your very brains have slopped out. F.F.S.
That should read 60 Million, but then as Professor Chomsky once said 20 million dead in the name of Progressive politics is a statistic, but one man dead at the hands of the U.S. Government is an atrocity.
* Disclaimer. Noam didn’t actually say that but it does seem to be the mindset of his cultish followers.
the admiral is correct, i read it in the national geographic and i trust both my sources
yes, i read that too, in the weekly world news, after the obama/alien vote thingy.
has everyone just forgotten the Caribbean?