So let me get this straight benje. You think that the President should be on call 24 hours a day for four yrs straight and deal with all the stress that comes along with the leader of the free world and not get paid? That is idiotic. He works hard for the pawltry salary that he gets. I didn't say that when Clinton was in office and I am sure you didn't either. Red is right, you enable the lazy people to continue to sit around all day and continue their laziness.

he deserves his money because he earned it. he has done such a good job and dont give me the crap that he is some petty rich guy who doesnt give a dman for the poor. he has worked hard and deserves every penny he earns.
it is your mentality, socialist mentality that, "it is unfair that bush has more money than others" is one that makes so many poor and lazy people.

because its his own money and he can spend it any way he wants.
notice the fine print uunder every 0one of his publicantions? what does it say? "not paid for at taxpayers expense" where then does the money come from? his campaign funds! HIS money!
do you think this inaugruation was federally funded? it his own money and he can spend it any which way he wants.

what you said was a convoluted way of saying,
"why does he get to spend his own money on things he wants?"

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But Pres. Bush may be (stingy). I've heard he donated $10,000 from his personal money for the relief.

Did anybody see SNL 2 weeks ago in the opening skit when the President, his dad, and Clinton were at a press conference and they made fun of the Pres when he said that he donated 10,000 before he found out what a tsunami was and how they dont get them in texas...i thought that it was funny.

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he can spend as much money as he wants. he desrves it.
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I'v said this before and ill say it again, I may not agree w/ the President but lets see what he can do in the next 4 years, but Red why does he deserve the $$ over lets say the people on the streets and in poverty? Then again its all politics...

"one more comment. i am sitting here in utter disgust at how some of you are trying to politicize this horriblke tragedy as a means to proclaim your unprecendented hatred for our president! leave him alone and grow up. maybe you should focu more on helping with the aid instead of belittling a good man."


i did nothing to politicize this as i am assuming you are suggesting. if yo scroll down you will see that it is others that have politiczed this tragedy. The above post of mine proves it.

The U.S. is not stingy. One minute the world hates the US and the next they want an extream amount of $$. Our country is in major debt. We are doing what we can. We are sending troops there to help out. This can not turn political redrepublican.

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what has he done to deserve it?

need i go through his list of accomplishments? his second term agenda?

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But Pres. Bush may be (stingy). I've heard he donated $10,000 from his personal money for the relief.

How much has your family donated?

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he can spend as much money as he wants. he desrves it.

Under this grand logic, Bush can drain ALL of the US's cash (I mean, more than he has), and he still "deserves" it. What do you want, a remake of the Great Depression?

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he can spend as much money as he wants. he desrves it.

what has he done to deserve it?

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of course not, AMERICA is the best country in the world and can do no wrong, everything AMERICA does is great and if you don't like it you can leave and go to hell

It's ridiculous the amount Bush is spending on his ****ing party...

he can spend as much money as he wants. he desrves it.
i dont care how much money that he spent on his campaign. this money was not spent on him. it was a thankyou to all of his supporters. i should be there right not actuallly. couldnt go though cuz of exams...

"then why nt for something that wud make a wurld of a diff to these poor nations.."


and yet we give what was it 360 million? soley by the gov't? that doesnt even iclude private donations, which i might add is where the most money is made.

"if maerica claims to be global power fighting for a better planet and stuff then it might jolly well give..."

please dont question America's quest for a better world. we hav eproven it with AIDS in Africa and with the sunamis and giving money to Cuba for its hurrican disasters. you have to be careful in contries like indonesia how much money you give and who you give it to. because you may give money for relief work, but thats not necessarily where it might go. soe of the government heads might pocket money. mugabe anyone? how about saddam?

"america im sure wud never accept any aid from other nations as it has build up this we are the strongest most self sufficinet sorta image whihc does make sense cause u ppl are real high on resources and cant even compare urselves to ppl in asia and africa....."

i dont thik we have to worry about it. we arent ever going to get such "aid" from other coutnries.


"if a small country like sweden cud dodnate 90 millioon dollars then america shud have donated a lot more..."


so we should be competing with other nations in such a fashion? again our gov't gave 360 mill. alone that doesnt include the private donations. you do the math.


"even the way bush dealt with this whole thing just shows where his real interests really lie..if someone wud have told him to start a war in this region he wud have probably jumped at the opportunity"

that is an unfair and unjust accusation. borderline incoherent.
tell me how did bush deal with the "whole accusation"?

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Originally posted by Sunset:
I’m not sure if this is already a topic, but I saw on the news how other countries who are aiding in the tsunami relief think the US is stingy. They say we should donate more because we have more population and is one of the biggest countries and we have more money. In a matter of fact, we donated twice as much money, but they still call us ‘stingy‘. But, when we have a disaster, like the Florida Hurricanes and 9/11, they don’t aid us. Do you think the US is ‘stingy’ and should donate more money?
-Sunset

of course not, AMERICA is the best country in the world and can do no wrong, everything AMERICA does is great and if you don't like it you can leave and go to hell

It's ridiculous the amount Bush is spending on his ****ing party...

(note: I was being sarcastic in the first part of my post)

coming to think of it america gives pakistan so many dollars for its fight against terrorism then why nt for something that wud make a wurld of a diff to these poor nations..if maerica claims to be global power fighting for a better planet and stuff then it might jolly well give...america im sure wud never accept any aid from other nations as it has build up this we are the strongest most self sufficinet sorta image whihc does make sense cause u ppl are real high on resources and cant even compare urselves to ppl in asia and africa.....
if a small country like sweden cud dodnate 90 millioon dollars then america shud have donated a lot more...even the way bush dealt with this whole thing just shows where his real interests really lie..if someone wud have told him to start a war in this region he wud have probably jumped at the opportunity....

I dont think that the US was stingy. We are doing the best we can in a time of economic hardship. The us needs to help the countries around the would, but it needs to be reasonable.

one more comment. i am sitting here in utter disgust at how some of you are trying to politicize this horriblke tragedy as a means to proclaim your unprecendented hatred for our president! leave him alone and grow up. maybe you should focu more on helping with the aid instead of belittling a good man.

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. Bush will spend more on his inauguration party then the amount of money we originally donated
2. Sri Lanka and a lot of these countries are poor, they need help. We don't need help with a huricanne.
3. Jan Egeland is awesome. Be calling us stingy we raised our donations to over $350 million. Good work Jan.

so what if bush spend s more $$$ on his inauguration? no one should care! this has been planned fo r months! most of it was already said and done by the time this happened.
and why are you going after bush? im sure brad pitt could fork over a couple mill. how about striesand? dont you dare go after bush for this.
we would have rasied that money anyways. we are such nice people. i have never even heard of jan engl-- what ever it is. and i suspect that most of the public is of the same knowledge. and dont credit American generosity to thwe work of one man.
notice everyone that it is liberals who are mad because we arent sending enough money to indonesia. and then they turn right back around and blame bush fo rthe deficit. im sure they would have called bush racist had he not given 10 billion dollars to the African nations over ten years.
the double binds of W. thats all i can say.

we are not be stingy by any means and anyone who thinks this should be shot.

i smell the stench of the Un behind this one. i could just see annan behind is Un pulpit proclaiming, "We need the rich countries (US) to give more money! Come give money now so that the UN can take the credt for it and then berate your liberation efforts later!"

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Originally posted by Sunset:
I’m not sure if this is already a topic, but I saw on the news how other countries who are aiding in the tsunami relief think the US is stingy. They say we should donate more because we have more population and is one of the biggest countries and we have more money. In a matter of fact, we donated twice as much money, but they still call us ‘stingy‘. But, when we have a disaster, like the Florida Hurricanes and 9/11, they don’t aid us. Do you think the US is ‘stingy’ and should donate more money?
-Sunset

1. Bush will spend more on his inauguration party then the amount of money we originally donated
2. Sri Lanka and a lot of these countries are poor, they need help. We don't need help with a huricanne.
3. Jan Egeland is awesome. Be calling us stingy we raised our donations to over $350 million. Good work Jan.

Though I think that the U.S. should donate a lot of money, I believe that countries like Saudi Arabia and The United Arab Emirates should be donating the most to Indonesia. These three countries are predominatly muslim. Saudi Arabia and The UAE are two of the richest countries in the world. These countries both have negative views towards America partly because of differences in religion and culture, so why don't they take responsibility for their "fellow muslims", why does the burden fall directly to the united states?

Id be stingy too if i was over a trillion dollars in debt. But thats just me.