I totally agree with Tim Kelly and Cyrena. However, when i heard about the “250G” --"with more to come”—i laughed my head off. Those morons really have a sense of humor. How much more, another 250G? --which totally is the equivalence of half of a Manhattan condo, or something like that. Ha ha ha ha ha ......ack ...ack....(choking).

Uhh, its already been done by the Burma military junta, PT.

They have very recently squandered billions in building a new capital city inland (Nay Pyi Daw) and are quite happy to abandon Yangon (Rangoon) and its people to the vicissitudes of nature.

The military not only don’t give a damn but they are quite happy to leave all the anxieties and the worries to the foreign aid agencies who are stupid enough to run after them. They know that there are plenty of foolishly naive Western do-gooders to exploit......

But the real culprits are the political and business leaders of the ASEAN countries and the USA who have been actively engaged in supporting and financing the construction of the new capital whilst ignoring other urgent essential infrastructure needs in the country.

Starting to sound like a mirror image of New Orleans in more ways than one.........!?!?

But how do you give “aid” to 15,000 or 30,000 dead people??? Obviously the lessons of the Indian Ocean tsunami have never been applied to hurricane tidal surges which create a mini tsunami too.

Bush must not be allowed to do to Burma what he did to New Orleans.

I agree Tim Kelly, which is why I got an odd chill down my spin at the immediate ‘deal/offerring’ proprosed by Lady Bush...some money now, with more to come, if a US ‘team’ is allowed in to ‘assess’ the situation.