I think one of the significant concerns is whether or not all this money/aid gets distributed intelligently and rapidly. Already I've come across reports of certain villages in Thailand/Sri Lanka receiving overwhelming aid, and yet others being left more or less alone in their need.
But at the same time I don't believe it is impossible to give too much; hopefully any surplus cash will go towards funding an early-warning system for the Indian ocean. On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:41:44 +0100, Jens Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In total the aid for asia (yesterday) from all over the world has reached 2 > billion USD (2,005,359,780 US Dollar). > > Jens Bladt > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt > > Jens Bladt > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 2. januar 2005 10:20 > Til: [email protected] > Emne: RE: Tsunami > > > 375 million USD is still a lot of money. I just hope teh aid gets there in > time! > > Jens Bladt > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Lawrence Kwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 2. januar 2005 09:47 > Til: [email protected] > Emne: Re: Tsunami > > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In the meantime US tax dollars are providing 375 million dollars of aid. > > That's almost two dollars per person. Not a bad number by any count. > > True. But CNN's Anderson Cooper also added that even the $ amount sounded > large, to put it in perspective, that's about the same amount of money > that each of the 4 US cities (he mentioned Phoenix, Washington and two > others) planned to spend to build sport stadiums in the next 5 years. > > -- > --Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vex.net/~lawrence -- > --Tungsten T3 Enhanced DIA Keyboard----Nokia Ringtone Convertor-- > >
