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It does irritate me, however, how everybody jumped on the 'charity' band-wagon as soon as it involved a wave and some Asians who couldn't swim/forgot to put on their water-wings/lost their surfboards. But just because it's America everybody's all "Yeh...whatever". New Orleans has been seriously bent over a table and violated by Katrina...
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Well, maybe because the Asians affected were mainly poor people who lived in coastal shanties made out of plastic bags and aluminium spares? Western countries have huge contingency funds should anything go wrong. America has infrastructures that support these people. Maybe it doesn't seem like they're doing anything now, but how many Americans did you see criticizing Bush during the Florida hurricanes? A lot.
Apart from India and Thailand, the Asian nations affected were mainly poor and don't get any governmental assistance in rebuilding their homes and picking up the pieces of their shattered lives. Look at how many times San Francisco has been plagued by earthquakes. I'm sure if you went down a street in San Francisco now you wouldn't see any ruins or flattened buildings, everything gets rebuilt and redesigned to withstand the next potential disaster.
Maybe the destruction caused by Katrina is in the billions. I'm sure that in a few years time the victims will be living in homes again with water and electricity and such. The Asians needed charity. How would government money get to such remote areas and help ALL the people? In countries like that, it's impossible what with all the corruption. What I'm trying to say is that the US is one of the richest nations in the world and that the government will eventually rehome these people and do all it can to make sure life resumes as normal. The 'Asians who couldn't swim' needed charity. It'll be years before their lives ever resume normality. Their crops are destroyed, their livelihoods gone etc...