For anyone who still believes the UN is a valuable organization, I offer you this from the Washington Times:
But U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland suggested that the United States and other Western nations were being “stingy” with relief funds, saying there would be more available if taxes were raised.
$15 million just isn’t enough.
Besides the United States, the largest single national donor was neighboring Australia, which offered $10 million and transportation aid.
And what are other nations donating?
Offers of aid have poured in from around the world in the past two days, with the European Union’s executive arm releasing $4 million in emergency aid and pledging an additional $27 million. Canada and several European nations — including Spain, Germany, Ireland and Belgium — each pledged about $1 million yesterday.
That means the EU says they might possibly send as much as $31 million… will we ever know if they did?