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2005-12-21 Southeast Asia

US groups spend 42 percent of tsunami aid: report

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Posted by Steve White 2005-12-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 yeah, how much to "adminsistrative costs", versus how much to the actual aid.

Posted by Jan 2005-12-21 00:40|| 2005-12-21 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 All "relief aid" can ever amount to is to provide immediate, life-saving support of fresh water and food, and to a lesser extent, electrical power. That is why the US Navy was such a godsend to the Tsunami victims.

Beyond that, what little a local people can do for themselves is a hundred thousand times more potent than anything that can be done for them. If the locals are unwilling to work, are poor and poorly educated, have an ineffectual local and national government and a torpid business community, no amount of aid will help them.

However, if they are determined to succeed, and no one stands in their way, then aid is almost superfluous, and if it is well used, acts as a multiplier to recovery; and if not used, to inhibit recovery.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-12-21 10:21|| 2005-12-21 10:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Gee, 'Moose, that sounds a lot like what is going on down here in New Orleans.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-12-21 22:47|| 2005-12-21 22:47|| Front Page Top

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