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Generous donations to Katrina victims
Ford Motor companay has offered to defer TWO payments to Hurricane victims. can you beleive that??
A whole TWO payments!!! General Motors has donated $400,000. Yes folks, a whole $400,000!!! How Fu**in generous!! 
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A radio station here in Houston raised a half a million.
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Just watched Bush 1 and Clinton where WalMart donated 22 million to the cause and any WalMart employee will have a job in any store in any town where they end up until New Orleans is ready for them to return.
Not a big WalMart fan (refuse to shop there to tell the truth, no matter how cheap they are) but they sure are helping the community and their people. JoeA
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09-05-2005, 08:18 AM
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 It just angers me that two of the largest companies in America, are pulling lint out of their pockets to help out.
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09-05-2005, 09:12 AM
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09-05-2005, 09:56 AM
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09-05-2005, 10:34 AM
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How many cars were destroyed in the flooding? All those cars will be replaced.
Katrina = windfall for auto makers. $400,000? As a gesture, it's slightly worse than doing nothing.
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09-05-2005, 10:59 AM
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And those oil companies, their compassion & generosity trumps all.
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09-05-2005, 11:01 AM
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Hmm..
They didn't have to do ANYTHING, now did they?
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09-05-2005, 11:36 AM
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$500,000,000.00 from Kuwait for hurricane relief. Good for them. That was very nice. Don't have much to say other than that...just thought people would like to know.
Apparently, Quatar has also offered some money...$100,000,000.00. We have some friends in the middle east. Thanks to them as well. |
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09-05-2005, 11:43 AM
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As far as raising money, myself and my fire dept.are involved in raising money. Also, I have put my name on a list to go down there and help out in search and recovery or whatever else needs to be done. (taking time off from my job without pay). What about u???
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09-05-2005, 01:23 PM
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What have Shell, BP Exxon/Mobil offered up?
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09-05-2005, 02:12 PM
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The government has already written one $10.5 billion check -- this is going to be the first of many multi-billion dollar payments used to bail-out people who have chosen to build their city below sea level.
That's my money they are giving away to help people who are behaving stupidly. You sure as hell won't find me donating anymore to any private charity since I've already been forced to "donate" through my taxes. And I won't complain about anyone else who doesn't donate, or doesn't donate in the amounts some might want, to this "relief effort". |
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You could donate to the Sudan instead -they definitely still need the money.
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 Yeah big deal. Pee-Diddy has donated 10x that amount personally. Has the Gov't accepted Castro's offer yet? 1100 doctors? Why you could fill in the busted levy with their luggage and then use them as slave labour to rebuild the place.
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