japan is one of the richest countrys. send the money to haiti

Probably gonna upset some hippies here but whatever. [...] No. Do you know how much money has been donated to Africa since even just 2000? Billions and billions and billions from a huge range of sources. Africa was the birthplace of the human race with some of the richest lands in the world and look how far they have progressed - not far. While it isn't completely the fault of the people (money gets lost between corruption, conflicts and the rest of it), no amount of money can buy self-sufficiency and the knowledge the rest of the world created to develop itself. But hey, keep donating your 50p a month if it helps you sleep better at night.

Probably gonna upset some hippies here but whatever. [...] No. Do you know how much money has been donated to Africa since even just 2000? Billions and billions and billions from a huge range of sources. Africa was the birthplace of the human race with some of the richest lands in the world and look how far they have progressed - not far. While it isn't completely the fault of the people (money gets lost between corruption, conflicts and the rest of it), no amount of money can buy self-sufficiency and the knowledge the rest of the world created to develop itself. But hey, keep donating your 50p a month if it helps you sleep better at night.

100,000 people die each day in Africa, 15,000 dead in Japan is nothing. Sure it's sad but on the grand scale of things its really nothing and deserves non of the media attention and massive donations they're getting, I personally find it offensive that the media put so much attention on this when African nations are in a far worse situation. If you want to donate money anywhere send it to Africa, where people go through worse shit every single day.

I've said this last time, but any money that is beyond the estimate of what the red cross needs for a region (Japan and surrounding Islands in this case) goes to another charity goal (pakistan for example).

Want to help? Buy, help people and get the hat. Is this bad? "japan is one of the richest countrys" This money is not for people. Only red cross can help them.

...so cant help valve too ( for sure they are getting a part from all that money)

japan is one of the richest countrys. send the money to haiti

[...] 100,000 people die each day in Africa, 15,000 dead in Japan is nothing. Sure it's sad but on the grand scale of things its really nothing and deserves non of the media attention and massive donations they're getting, I personally find it offensive that the media put so much attention on this when African nations are in a far worse situation. If you want to donate money anywhere send it to Africa, where people go through worse shit every single day.

[...] He might mean GNP.

[...] Not sure where you got this from, source? And what is BNP? Do you mean GDP? Japan has had a very low (0%) interest rate for a long period of time, and particularly the fear of insolvent banks since the bubble burst puts saving rate on a steep decline. Either way, private savings rate means nothing when the public debt is so high.