We're spending about $200 million a day in Iraq

and the pResident tells us to send CASH to the Red Cross. The last major worldwide disaster was the tsunami and the US sent a contribution.

The total amount committed by the US government by January of this year for tsunami relief was $350,000,000 which was equal to 42.27 hours of the cost of the war in Iraq.

How many Iraq hours will our government provide for the disaster in the Gulf states? Bush said he was sending 11,000 cots ... and I was blown away at his generousity - that will sure put a big dent in the needs of the victims of Katrina. To be fair he did say it was just a beginning. Whew that sure made me feel better.

I make contributions from my heart. When the pResident starts to TELL ME that I should be sending cash contributions I start getting pissed off. We should be telling HIM what to send. Oh and make it CASH. He's been busy sending our tax dollars to his war of choice. Hundreds of billions of dollars are paid to his buddies private contracting companies, with no accountability. When we have a disaster at home he TELLS us to open our wallets???

Bush said that the Federal Government will do its part and that the private sector must do their part. Excuse me!!!! WE are what funds the federal government. It's HIS part to give out the money WE put in to take care of disasters here in the US. I just have a problem when this administration EXPECTS us to send money. I EXPECT them to take care of the people in need.

What we decide from our hearts to donate is a private matter. It shouldn't be considered to be part of *'s budget to help those in need and the areas damaged.

I am so incensed that people are dying in the Convention Center where they have no food and water and where they don't get any answers from the police or the NG. I know people's hearts and wallets will open to help. I have already sent one donation and will do more. But I'll be damned if the money we donate will lessen what the federal government does to help. We ship cash out by the plane loads to Iraq. Time to keep it home along with our soldiers.

I'm so angry, so sad, so sick & tired of that ineffectual jackass and his goddamned vacations and fundraisers... :banghead::rant:

and asked for specific contributions instead of asking the middle and lower classes to pony up. Yeah, we already did, asshole, we ponied up for tsunami relief, when our taxes weren't used properly, we've donated generously to supply our troops with the equipment and resources that you owed them, and we'll do it again, which proves that Americans have bigger hearts than our 'elected' representatives do.