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To: unclewest who wrote (93954)	1/5/2005 10:00:07 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

It will indeed, especially since it appears the UN wants to take control of the effort. news.ft.com It will be interesting to see how much of the money gets disbursed down to the victims

To: unclewest who wrote (93954)	1/5/2005 10:20:09 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 793717

>>It also pushed the worldwide total of donations over the $3 billion mark. That is $20,000 per fatality and assuming 4 person average households...$4,000 per family displaced. Those are huge sums in that part of the world. Some of the areas hit have annual salary ranges of less than $100. It will be interesting to see how much of the money gets disbursed down to the victims.>>> Perhaps you remember that Magnuson and Jackson, two powerful men from Wash State, pushed thru an aid bill of over $1 bil for the St Helens eruption. And very little of that was needed or asked for or justified, so the Senators sent word back home to spend the dam money as they did not want to look like fools.? And rich non-resident landowners got most of the benefits. The following lenghty URL tells us that such an event as St Helens leads to huge and costly studies and dire predictions and outrageous plans for events that never reoccured. Like saying the US has 70 active volcanoes and so, etc etc. And of course no others have blown. rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov None of the money being provided will get those people what they really want, which is to bring back their dead relatives. I am in favor of central planning for the aid work such as proposed by the US. 1. If an entire family is missing, who gets the aid or the property they lived on. A third cousin? 2. Will they rebuild on the same property as overwhelmed by the tsunami, or will the cities be rebuilt on higher ground as was done after the Alaska event.? And here is the importance of a tsunami warning system, in that the beautiful beaches and low lying ground can be used for recreation or crops even if not safe for permanent structures. The misuse of the huge funds being provided will probably make us sick unless someone monitors its dispersal. Sig@manyplansneeded.com