Too much money?

[chuckywang]

Don't get me wrong, the tsunami event is a HORRIBLE tragedy. But does anyone feel that too much money is being donated to efforts with the tsunami? I mean, some organizations are telling people to STOP donating money. Taken into perspective, the starving Sudanese people is just as big a crisis, and money being donated to help them is not as much as the tsuanmi donations. It just seems that some people are going overboard.

 

[Stunt]

Do you live there?

Have any facts to back up the reasoning that there is too much money?

I don't think anyone can begin to conprehend the situation there without grave assumptions.

 

[raildogg]

no, you are thinking short term. In the long term, that money is much less than actually needed for rebuilding entire cities and towns and restoring people's lives.

No, we are not going overboard by any means.

 

[Steeplerot]

Now that the time is ripe for diseases like dysentery setting in it is very crucial to make sure everyone has clean water and supplies.
Something this scale losing as many people as the accident took to contaiminated water and disease is a very real.
When things are clean and safe the aid should wrap up. But for now the situation is deadly to millions still.

 

[BarneyFife]

I'm just wondering how much money they need? It seems kind of excessive.

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: BarneyFife
I'm just wondering how much money they need? It seems kind of excessive.

noone knows for sure. what you people forget is that a lot more money is needed for long term needs of these countries. reconstruction, health of the really sick people etc.

 

[Steeplerot]

It was pretty big event. So big I heard it changed the shape of the planet itself and moved our orbit a bit, and our day is like a tiny bit longer.
It's gonna be a problem for awhile. I know that's not a figure but it sure is not your average disaster here in the states for sure.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/new...ms/200412/s1273124.htm

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: Steeplerot
It was pretty big event. So big I heard it changed the shape of the planet itself and moved our orbit a bit, and our day is like a tiny bit longer.
It's gonna be a problem for awhile. I know that's not a figure but it sure is not your average disaster here in the states for sure.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/new...ms/200412/s1273124.htm

oops, nevermind

well ... bump ... :thumbsup:

 

[Steeplerot]

It is pretty scary to us here I lost one of my best bros and bandmate of 10 years that afternoon.. he was surfing... it's pointless and stupid how it happened RIP he never knew they had a earthquake across the ocean and a wave got him.
This bad stuff can affect us here too, all our friends and our household are pretty crushed still about this tragedy.

 

[Infohawk]

I don't know about whether too much is being spent but I have thought about something along those lines. A book came out awhile back explaining how society isn't rational about certain events. For example while Cancer might kill far more people, a smaller more sensantionalistic event might produce more spending (that is probably not the best example and I forgot the name of the book).

Anyway, in the grand scheme of things I would imagine there are things that cause greater amount of deaths per year than tsunamis and yet it's possible they'd get less funding because of the psychological impact of the tsunami.

 

[sandorski]

If it was a famine the current amounts would likely be plenty, but there are a whole lot of extra costs in this situation that others have already pointed out.