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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
The only new point you've made that I haven't already countered.
And it's a good point. But I would say that rationally that works in the other direction. (i.e. Let Japan PAY for the stuff it needs.)
But if I have a spare blanket, it would be pretty sh*tty to try and sell it to Japan when it's a SPARE blanket.
It's the same with expertise. If I have a bunch of specialists to spare which could be put to far better use somewhere else, then it would be pretty sh*tty to get Japan to pay their salary.
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But what makes you think that the Japanese government is not already paying for some of the relief effort????? As someone else pointed out, the country is already in debt, and they also have to plan for the money needed for any rebuilt effort after. Just like in Canada, houses destroyed by natural disasters are not covered by insurance. The government absorb the cost to resituate affected people. All that needs money. They will need to dig deeper into their pocket when the rescue effort is done, nobody will be teeing on to help then.
We our help now will releif some of the preside on the government economically, and that may have an impliction on how much the country can afford on. The rebuild. We are not tLking about a few houses, but an entire city and an entire power plant.......