Re: Australia gives $10m to Red Cross relief



On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:56:25 +1000, myal
<dumaree@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Should pay for the CEOs end of year bash ya reckon ?
>#################################################################

The U.S. government is spending $500 million/day on Katrina
- maybe more now. I appreciate the $10 million (is that in
Australian Dollars???), but really it doesn't mean anything
to us, other than as a gesture. Send a couple billion, and
it might actually make a slight difference.

Remember - our government prints Dollars. It can spend as
many of them as it wants. Katrina will end up costing over
$100 billion. We'll have a slight uptick in the inflation
rate. Otherwise, no one will notice it.

(rest snipped)

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Robert Sturgeon
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