can the USA afford to help Japan the most?

[Hypestyles]

...how much has the USA pledged to help aid in reconstruction/relief efforts in japan.. how are these funds disbursed.. what are the congressional protocols to make it happen, and what are the potential drawbacks, short and long-term...

[old guy]

Japan holds the second largest number of U.S. Treasury Bonds, [[2nd. only to China) so I think it might be in our interest to at least appear to be helping. If they decide to sell off a large number of bonds, we would be very sad, collectively as a country.

[Gistok]

I don't think we need to be sending ANY cash to Japan... perhaps other humanitarian aid... such as "sniffing" dogs, search and rescue folks, if need be bottled water, and supplies, etc.

I doubt that they would want blood donations... they would likely refuse it... they likely don't want to taint their pure bloodlines with foreign blood. [[no joke)

But I think they already have enough of our cash....

[Pam]

such as "sniffing" dogs, search and rescue folks,

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Kadie/1815

We are doing that. I don't know how much we can afford to help them either. What about China? They can send cash.

[Danny]

If the U.S. help Haiti, I'm sure we can help the Japanese.

Can you call compare humanitarian aid with Japan and Haiti?

Haiti: poor, mostly black and no one is rich.

Japan: rich mostly black haired people and everyone is rich [[ with spirits)