Where Are All The Donation Drives?
There was a flood wave that wiped out nations unfriendly to us and still everyone chipped in and sent them more aid than they could use. In the aftermath of Katrina where is everyone?
But mainstream Web sites that had jumped to pull in money for the tsunami victims showed no evidence of repeating it here in the U.S. for Katrina’s. Amazon.com, which raised more than $14 million for the American Red Cross in January via a donation link on its home page, didn’t have one as of mid-day Monday. Nor did Google, Yahoo, MSN, or eBay, all of which hustled earlier in the year to put up donation links on their portals. (Google slapped up an “Information about Hurricane Katrina” link on its Spartan home page, but that led to news sources and stories.)
And how about all those other nations around the world that we’ve bailed out? That helped with the Tsunami relief? Where are their ships and volunteers? Where are their emergency aid supplies? The only offers I’ve seen came from Hugo Chavez and it was buried in a stack of Anti-Bush proletariat slurs so it may not have even been serious.
Anyway we will take care of our own. Instapundit has a huge list of charities working on the Katrina clean up. Being rather jaded on “charities” I’ll make no recommendations.