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Brandon Hill (Blog) - January 20, 2010 5:16 PM

17 comment(s) - last by CHAOQIANG.. on Jan 25 at 10:26 PM

Everyone pitches in to help

With the devastation going in Haiti, many companies are stepping forward in whatever way they can with donations or means to help people in the U.S. get in contact with loved ones in the disaster-stricken country.

Google has setup a disaster relief page where you can donate money to UNICEF and CARE. The online search giant is also providing free calls to Haiti through its popular Google Voice service.

Another company that is joining the cause is EVGA. EVGA has announced plans to match donations given by its community up to $5,000. The fund, which is setup through the Red Cross, can be accessed by going to this page.

Other tech companies that have joined in the efforts include Intel, AMD, and Apple [iTunes link].

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More American Greed

By Reclaimer77 on 1/20/2010 8:40:53 PM , Rating: 2

Not only is the United States first on the scene to every disaster in any country, even Haiti where we have no vested interest at all. But it's corperations and citizens give the most by far out of it's own pockets.

Just more proof of how greedy and corrupt the United States is.

RE: More American Greed

By karielash on 1/21/2010 6:08:12 AM , Rating: 1

That would be great if they were the first to EVERY??? disaster, I think you will find MSF were there before everyone else, as per usual.

Canada has donated virtually the same amount as the USA, considering the population difference the imbalance in per person donations is huge.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/1...

While nobody doubts the generosity of every country that has stepped up to the plate using this to justify your statement is somewhat laughable.

And personally I would rate the US Senate as the most corrupt organization in the world today, way behind most other organized criminal enterprises and only rivaled by Wall Street for outright self centered greed. Most everyone else in the USA is cool though :)

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RE: More American Greed

By AmbroseAthan on 1/21/2010 1:32:55 PM , Rating: 2

The data you mention is what the Government of that country has given (or donated/pledged); about $131 million for the US, $130 Canada, etc.

The "Others/Private" totals $900+ Million (at the time of the data), which dwarves any government's donations, and I think reclaimer's point was he feels a lot of this section of the money comes from American individuals/companies.

Without better data, hard to tell how it breaks down, but I would have to think American individuals/companies are a huge part of that 900 Million.

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RE: More American Greed

By karielash on 1/22/2010 2:12:30 AM , Rating: 2

I'm aware of that, what you can though is look at recent disasters (Tsunami), and look at that data (which is reasonably easy to get hold of) and you see that indeed, by amount donated the US is a major contributor (24% of all funds came from the USA), however if you look at donations per capita or by % of income the story is totally different

Amount Donated Per/Cap %Overall

# 10 Kuwait: $33.50 0.209482357
# 8 Norway: $36.11 0.103004175
# 5 Australia: $19.48 0.101388222
# 18 New Zealand: $11.03 0.087268162
# 7 Netherlands: $18.81 0.079146782
# 28 Luxembourg: $21.90 0.058410096
# 15 Finland: $12.20 0.051788486
# 6 Canada: $10.15 0.048838828
# 12 Denmark: $13.92 0.04609801
# 2 Germany: $7.74 0.032899439

(sorted on % of income donated, the USA is 27th, the UK is 28th)

Luxembourg as a country is 28th in a list of the 37 top donors, but by population size and % of income donated they rate highly.

Who is the original poster to mock or berate (however indirectly) any donation made by anyone to any cause. He talks of people hating on the USA, the simple fact is they are not, they tend to hate on bigotry and spite, both of which he seems to display proudly.

Looking through the complete list I found some of the people donating funds have average incomes below $1000 dollars per year, what value do you place on the donation from someone who has $180 a month income????

Personally I think highly of the USA, however the behaviour of both the Political Elite and Wall Street reflects very badly on a great country.

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RE: More American Greed

By Reclaimer77 on 1/21/2010 2:25:09 PM , Rating: 2

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Canada has donated virtually the same amount as the USA

Yeah, that's a lie by the way.

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RE: More American Greed

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RE: More American Greed

By bighairycamel on 1/21/2010 11:24:35 AM , Rating: 2

I'm not getting your point here... yes corruption and greed exists, but how is helping haiti in any way proof of that? Sounds exactly the opposite to me. EVGA is matching up to 5k! Is this just old fasioned sarcasm?

Do you intentionally just find a way to be negative in every post on this site?

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RE: More American Greed

By Reclaimer77 on 1/21/2010 12:11:52 PM , Rating: 2

My point ?

This article was up for hours without a single post till mine. But the second any article is posted about the US and anything negative, people crawl out of the woodwork and proclaim all sorts of negative things about the United States. I guess good news isn't troll-worthy ?

And please, it's funny how you two are trying to downplay the massive relief efforts the United States gives when something like this happens. You're embarrassing yourselves.

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RE: More American Greed

By bighairycamel on 1/21/2010 12:44:10 PM , Rating: 2

What are you talking about? I wasn't downplaying it at all, I was doing the opposite in fact.

And don't get your panties in a wod about it... none of the blog articles get many hits. You can say we're all greedy if you want but you shouldn't judge a mass of people because you assume something. I bet there is a lot of us around here than have given to a relief effort in some way or another. Just because 200 people don't post about it doesn't mean we're all tight wods.

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RE: More American Greed

By Reclaimer77 on 1/21/2010 2:23:28 PM , Rating: 2

wow dude you massively EPICALLY fail at reading comprehension. I mean, you aren't even CLOSE to the point I was making.

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RE: More American Greed

By bighairycamel on 1/21/2010 3:57:58 PM , Rating: 2

/facepalm

quote:
Not only is the United States first on the scene to every disaster in any country, even Haiti where we have no vested interest at all. But it's corperations and citizens give the most by far out of it's own pockets.

Just more proof of how greedy and corrupt the United States is.

First you say how we give out of our own pockets then you say "Just more proof of how greedy and corrupt the United States". Sounds contradictory to me.

OK so I reply and say I don't understand where you're going with that, and I asked if you meant it as sarcasm. Here is the straight answer you gave me (that was sarcasm by the way)

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My point ?

This article was up for hours without a single post till mine. But the second any article is posted about the US and anything negative, people crawl out of the woodwork and proclaim all sorts of negative things about the United States. I guess good news isn't troll-worthy ?

B*tching about how people on this forum are apparently trolls. So now I try to relate "your point" to your original post, so logically I assume you mean the posters on this forum are part of the problem...

I'm still waiting for a better explanation to your original post. If we're going to play the personal attack game, do you have ANY friends being so grouchy and condescending all the time? Yes we all understand your opinion is more valuble than ours and that your sh*t doesn't stink.

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RE: More American Greed

By Reclaimer77 on 1/21/2010 4:10:12 PM , Rating: 2

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First you say how we give out of our own pockets then you say "Just more proof of how greedy and corrupt the United States". Sounds contradictory to me.

People like you are why we have to add " /sarcasm " to blatantly obvious sarcastic posts. Yes, it was SARCASM. And if you don't get sarcasm, you sure as hell don't get satire either.

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RE: More American Greed

By Regs on 1/21/2010 4:18:02 PM , Rating: 2

Being overly sarcastic just gets annoying and does not really get your point across. It's usually how marriages end.

For instance, after reading these series of posts of yours, I wanted to jump through my screen, rip out your eyes, and piss in your head.

I can only imagine what the intended receiver of the message wants to do with you.

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RE: More American Greed

By Reclaimer77 on 1/21/2010 5:36:10 PM , Rating: 2

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For instance, after reading these series of posts of yours, I wanted to jump through my screen, rip out your eyes, and piss in your head.

heh.. well you could TRY.

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RE: More American Greed

By bighairycamel on 1/21/2010 4:24:49 PM , Rating: 2

My first thought was that it was sarcasm.

The problem with sarcasm is that it's expressed through tone-of-voice or facial expression. That's not translated very well on the keyboard so it's easy to misunderstand the poster, that's why I asked.

THANK YOU for clarifying.

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RE: More American Greed

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RE: More American Greed

By OKMIJN4455 on 1/24/2010 6:44:24 AM , Rating: 1

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