Donating for the Tsunami victims

The population of the United Kingdom is 60 million. I'm sure the vast majority of those 60 million people can afford to part with ten pounds. If 60 million people donate 10 pounds then that's 0.6 billion pounds collected, which at the current exchange rate is over a billion dollars.

The population of the United States is around 300 million. Again. most of those people can afford to part with ten dollars. If everyone in the US donates 10 dollars that would be 3 billion dollars total.

So our running total is now 4 billion dollars US

Canada's population is 32 million people. With every Canadian donating 10 Canadian dollars then that's 0.32 billion Canadian dollars, or at the current exchange rate, a quarter of a billion US dollars.

4.25 Billion US dollars.

Japan has a population exceeding 125 million people. A thousand yes is worth around about 10 US dollars, so a donation of 1000 yen from everyone in Japan would equate to 1 and a quarter billion dollars.

5 and a half billion dollars.

And so far our governments have donated a paltry few million here an there to the people of the countries devastated by the tsunami.

The figures clearly show that if we all pull our weight we can do far better than our governments have so far.

(Population figures taken from wikipedia.org, exchange rates from xe.com)

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finally, some common sense.  My heart goes out to all of those individuals who suffered from the tsunami disaster - I personally donated $100 towards the cause, and hope that others will donate as well if possible.  If anyone reading this thread is from Indonesia or another country which suffered from this event, I urge you to realize that the people posting in this thread do not represent the entire United States.  My family and friends were devastated when they heard of this tragedy, and I myself burst into tears when I first heard the news... All Americans are not as heartless as those individuals who poke fun at death and destruction...