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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Hear hear Morello, I am equally appalled - and you are dead right, McCartney and Bono (especially Bono) are so effing pious it makes me want to throw up. These people are worth hundreds of millions (I heard somewhere that Mcartney is worth �600m - if this is indeed the case, surely he could give �100m, and then, poor love, struggle on with �500m!).
I'm doing what I can, it isn't much, but its what I can afford - the images of those kids looking for their (probably dead) parents was just heart breaking.
How about diverting the money from the truly awful Do They Know Its Christmas single from Africa (which gets far too much of our charity money in my opinion) to the disaster area?
I have a suspicion that Tony Blair would whiz back from his hols and we would be there at the forefront with the food, water and diggers to put it all right again if there were oil under the ground or we had a whacking big arms deal going with these countries.
I agre with Morello, the Government pledges are tiny and the rich do not stay that way by giving money away. Nothing will bring back the dead ones, but I think we who have relatively well off lives should all help, and that includes our money in the form of taxes collected on our behalf by our elected representatives.
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Yes, I too was apalled and embarrassed at the paltry sum initially donated by the Government. Some CEO's and Chairman get a similar figure as a golden handshake FFS!
As usual the great British public realised the scale of things, donating �26.5 million(and rising almost hourly) within days, dwarfing the �15 million given by the Government.
This has now been increased to �50 million but further donations will be needed.
And yes, let's see the rich 'I really love this planet' stars and footballers who percieve themselves as almost god-like dig deep and donate a lot of money, most of which they'll never be able to spend within their lifetime.
I mean, how much could be raised if every Premiership footballer gave up just one weeks wages?
Sorry guys, but I find this all terribly sad.
Do you really think that the best way to get people to donate (time, money etc) is by belittling people in public life? How does celebrity bashing help the dead and homeless in Asia?
If we spent as much energy on organising relief as we do in celebrity bashing, just think how much more could be achieved.