I've been watching/reading a lot of the tsunami coverage which I'm sure everyone is well aware of...I found this organization which (according to the Better Business Bureau) uses 98 cents of every dollar donated towards actual programs and not administrative costs/fundraising...it's called AmeriCares.Org so please please donate whatever you can.

It really irks me how a lot of liberals can't even give the President props in areas where he obviously deserves them. Take this girl who is a friend of a friend:

great to know US is donating so much money to help out... even though it feels like the government is donating so much for a reputation and pride... all for the wrong reasons.

isnt it funny how we're the first to say.. we gotta help! and also the first to say... let's bomb the living shit out of them!

you think bush would have been as genorous if he was asked to donate fuel instead of money? hehehe.

Her ignorance is really quite sickening, she is clearly a product of liberal dickheaded professors...First of all the US (government and private) is and has been the number one donor for charitable causes throughout the world. President Bush increased the amount of money given to the UN AIDS program (increased from the Clinton years). To say that we are donating simply for "reputation and pride" is completely daft and ignorant. Liberals just love to think the worst of America and Americans...why don't they just move to France (which by the by, gives 7 times LESS per capita then America does). I know I'm not being very articulate right now but I hope my irritation is showing. Americans are THE most generous people on the face of the planet and not only do we not get any recognition for it, we get accused of being stingy and of doing it just for show. That is just stupid and people who say things like that should take a long hard look at themselves and what kind of charitable things they themselves are doing. Americans don't donate money for recognition but we CERTAINLY don't do it to be chastised and told we are stingy and doing it just for our "reputation."

Now, I work in fundraising myself and I can tell all you retarded half-wit liberals out there that Republicans (and *gasp* those evil CEO's) give a buttload of money to charitable causes all the time while the lefty liberal Hollywood celebrities just attend charity events for FREE and essentially STEAL money from these charitable organizations by taking up the seat of someone who might actually PAY to be there.

Also, that little "first to bomb the living shit out of them" comment...again...shows her ignorance. We may have bombed Iraq (in order to remove Saddam Hussein's murderous, brutal regime) but we are also there rebuilding their broken country (which was by the way not in great shape before we started bombing thanks to that thug Saddam). Did we bomb Germany and Japan? And uh...what kind of shape are they in now? And thanks to which country? That's right: America.

I wish liberals would actually look at the facts and figures before spouting their mouths off. And for the girl who commented about how the government gave $1 billion when Florida had the hurricanes, I'm not sure if she's aware of this but Florida is a state within the United States, which means that Florida actually is the US government's responsibility whereas SE Asia is not. Seriously, do liberals not get simple things like that?

Okay, I'm done with my little rant now. I have one on Britney Spears coming up later. I'm going to just end with this link to AmeriCares.Org. Because America cares about all those tsunami victims and despite being called stingy warmongers we will continue to care about those suffering in all parts of the world and we will continue to give and to help.

Update: I found this quote on RWN and it's much more articulate than my rambling mess.

"We are six percent or less of the world's population, yet we give almost half. We are a very small number of people, relatively speaking, and we carry the weight of a dozen countries. Secondly, we maintain a military structure that keeps the peace of the world.....Who is in the Indian Ocean with the aircraft carriers, helicopters, skilled personal? No one has the infrastructure in the world, we spend almost half a trillion dollars a year on our military structure, which is essentially the fire department of the planet and is it always at the disposal of people hit in a national disaster.....Incidentally on food aid, we five 60% of all the food aid in the world. It is simply irresponsible to talk about the U.S. as anything other than the most generous nation on the planet." -- Charles Krauthammer