Dear fellow Hessians - I can't help it - I am hanging on the CNN News day and night, Aaron Brown reporting with great emotions from Sri Lanka, Harrison Cooper from Thailand, and with their reports you are right with them in the middle of the tragic events. President Busch announced help and 350 Million U.S.Dollars, Japan even more, and so goes the reporting, money flowing to the South East Asia region hit so hard. I just hope they keep some money here for our poor, helpless and homeless, and for those in our hemisphare, like Haiti. But I have not heard one news service reporting on the contributions and help Germany is providing. Reading the Internet webseite of German newspapers, I learn that the German Government has pledged 500 Million Euros, equivalent to US$660 Million to the Tsunami affected areas. This is the largest financial help of all. The unemployment rate in Germany is over 10 percent, how can they do it? Whoever doubts this statement, please ckeck under www.google.de Please do not respond to me about this, support Colin Powell and the two former Presidents in their efforts to help the world. We are all in the same boat ! John Helmut Merz Canada.