Just curious. I would say the Brits and the Aussies might help, possibly the Japanese. Anybody else? Maybe a few private citizens might donate to help out the flood and hurricane ravaged citizens of the Gulf Coast of the U.S.A. But I wouldn't count on any records being broken in that regard.
Saudi Arabia? HaHa. Yeah, on the condition that we all partake in a mass conversion to Islam, maybe. Ditto, all the other Arab nations that might have the funds to help. Why the hell should they? After all, we're more at their mercy now than ever as far as our energy dependance on them goes. And of course it would just be so rude to insist they help in return for all the aid we've given them in the past, and will doubtless continue to do, that just shouldn't even be whispered, at least not in polite circles.
The Germans? The French? well, probably, but just as probably only on the condition that we allow their companies to conduct the rebuilding of New Orleans and other Gulf State communities at their price. Kickbacks can be fun, you know, as well as lucrative.
All the other leaders of the EU? The U.N.? Can't you see them in your mind's eye right now, just smiling like the fox that raided the hen house?
China? Strangely silent on the issue, but then, when you stop to think about it, so is everyone else. Not so much as a sympathy card, that I'm aware of.
Oh, I almost forgot. Russia. Yeah, they'll help us, like, when hell freezes over.
