--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > Assuming, sadly, that the death toll from Katrina
> > reaches 2000, that number of people die tragically 
> > every 8.33 *hours* in Africa from poverty.  I haven't 
> > exactly seen Judy trying to get us to focus on that.
> 
> Most people find it easier to focus on people who are closer to 
> them in some way, be it geographically, politically, religiously, 
> socially, whatever.
> 
> In the case of New Orleans, not only is this issue important, but 
> given how important the region is to our economy...

Your economy.

> ...the near-
> destruction of that area impacts how much and how well the US can 
> support the rest of the world economically and socially.

Wake up.  The United States of America has to borrow
two billion dollars a day to stay afloat.  I'd say
that the world was supporting them.
 






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