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)

Hey, the only reason why Japan donated some 70 million dollars to the Tsunami victims is because they want to become a permanent member of the UN security council. Do you think they would actually care about people dying overseas when their own people are still suffering from a earthquake a few weeks ago???  Do you think they just paid 70 million dollars (the most any country paid at one time) just because they felt bad??? No, just like the Germans right after the Japanese, they are all paying just to become a UN security council member. The UN security council right now is: China, France, UK, US, and Russia. There is no Germany nor Japan in this list. Besides, why should Japan be paying the second most to supply UN funds when they are treated like dirt by things such as the "enemy clause" and not being on the security council? (The five major contributors to the U.N.'s regular budget are the United States, which pays 22 percent of the budget, Japan (19.5 percent), Germany (9.8 percent), France (6.5 percent) and Britain (5.5 percent).)