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)

I understand the human need to help the less fortuante but consider the following:

1. 3rd world people need less money to be satisfied, 10 dollars is more than one of them earns a month.

2. 3rd world inhabitants contribute next to nothing to the global economy (meaning them being alive affects you in no way).

3. They reproduce irresponsibly (no child wants to be born to poor people nor do 10 children) aiding them only hurts the world more by allowing them to surivive and reproduce sucessfully thereby creating an even larger generation of desperate people.

4. Yes it would suck if we were born there, but we weren't thank allah.