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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:04 PM
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Bangladesh P.M. Announces Donation of $1 Million to U.S. Hurricane Victims
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=52646

Bangladesh Prime Minister Announces Donation of $1 Million to U.S. Hurricane Victims

9/4/2005 4:59:00 PM

To: National and International desks, Hurricane Reporter

Contact: Golam Arshad, Minister Press, Embassy of Bangladesh, 202-244-5071, email: garshad@bangladoot.org or Web site: http://www.bangladoot.org

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia M.P. today made an announcement of donating $1 million towards the Hurricane victims in the United States. She noted that the people and the Government of Bangladesh will stand by for extending any help and support which includes sending of military personnel, construction engineers for reconstruction work and medical team for mitigating the suffering of the hurricane affected people of the three states of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. The Prime Minister also rendered her heartfelt sympathies and prayers to the U.S President George W. Bush on the loss of life and property wrought by the devastating Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.usnewswire.com/
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expatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:07 PM
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1. How sweet of them (not sarcastic), how humiliating to us.
Bangladesh is so fucking poor, what percentage of their gdp is that?
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:11 PM
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4. Their GDP purchasing power-parity is $275 billion,
Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 06:12 PM by ZombieNixon
but because of their huge population, their GDP per capita is $2000.

Compare that to ours of $40000+ per capita.
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Zenlitened Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:09 PM
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2. America is dead. Bush has killed her.
We're taking handouts from one of the poorest nations on the planet now?

Unbefuckinglievable. :mad:
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:47 PM
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13. Roll back those obscene tax cuts for the GREED PIGS
including bush and his obscenely wealthy cabinet members and maybe we wouldn't have to take money from poor nations! Hear that bush you huckster, you con artist you greedy war mongering war profiteering low life POS! :grr:
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Lindsay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:10 PM
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3. This morning Afghanistan pledged $500,000
and now Bangladesh.

This is what humanity is, George. Doing everything you can for your fellow humans.

You, George, are an abject failure as a president and a person.
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Kenroy Donating Member (768 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:13 PM
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5. that's amazing
just amazing. Yet another cause for tears, but this time they're tears of gratitude. What a magnificent gesture.
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:17 PM
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6. We should be ashamed as a country
Absofuckinglutely ashamed.
Taking money from the poorest of nations and handing it over to Halliburton.
This is insanity.
Where is our national pride?
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:21 PM
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7. Sweet Jesus you gotta love them.
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:35 PM
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8. Appreciate the gesture
I really do, but less than a penny a person is pretty small.
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:36 PM
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9. Bangladesh is a very poor country.
So we should be extremely grateful that they are giving anything at all.
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:45 PM
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12. Hell if I were PM of another country
I wouldn't offer any cash at all. All kinds of aid but I wouldn't send any money to these bastards...
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:47 PM
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14. It's a very poor country
which experiences terrible flooding during their own monsoon seasons.

The sad thing is their evacuation procedures are probably better than this as is their ability to get aid to those affected.

Also, this is much more than Japan, a much wealthier nation offered. They offered only 200,000.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:38 PM
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10. Well, now I've seen it all....
n/t
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expatriate Donating Member (853 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:43 PM
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11. well bugger me with a baseball bat
Bangladesh. Bless them.

America, Number One, Greatest Nation On Earth.

Yeah. Needs to be bailed by Bangladesh and Afghanistan, because the ultra-rich powers that be can't be bothered to respond.

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