Please come up with black on white data of how much money spent for the world's poor as i highly doubt that.
How about US military budget about USD 600 billion a year ? If this big money is used to help poor world there will be no more POOR WORLD
in the world.
Did you forget Operation Unified Assistance? Just one of hundreds of US relief efforts worldwide in the past decade?
The United States dispatched numerous
C-5 Galaxy and
C-17 Globemaster IIIstrategic airlifters and ten
C-130 Hercules tactical airlifters containing disaster supplies, nine
P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft for
search and rescue support, and several teams from the Departments of
State and
Defense to coordinate additional assistance. They are using
Utapao Naval Air Base in
Thailand as their regional hub. The deployment of the
615th Air Mobility Operations Group from
Travis Air Force Base, California, established a tanker airlift control element where personnel assisted with the safe movement of 6,685 passengers, 5,444 cargo tons of relief supplies and medical aid on 817 airlift missions.
Carrier Strike Group Nine, led by the aircraft carrier
Abraham Lincoln, which was in port in
Hong Kong, was dispatched to the coast of Sumatra to provide support to the Indonesian province of Aceh. Other ships in the group were the guided-missile cruiser
Shiloh; the guided-missile destroyers
Shoup and
Benfold, and the fast combat support ship
Rainier.
In addition, an
Expeditionary Strike Group led by the amphibious assault ship
Bonhomme Richard, scheduled for a port call in
Guam, was dispatched to render assistance. A total of 48 Navy and Marine Corps helicopters were involved. Each ship could produce around 90,000 US
gallons of fresh water per day. Other ships in the group were amphibious transport dock
Duluth, the guided-missile destroyer
Milius, the dock landing ship
Rushmore, the guided-missile frigate
Thach, the nuclear-powered submarine
Pasadena, guided-missile cruiser
Bunker Hill, and the coast guard cutter
Munro.
The
US Navy also deployed the
Mercy, a 1,000-bed
hospital ship (initially staffed to support 250 patient beds).
Other logistics ships were also employed such as the combat stores ships
San Jose and
Niagara Falls.
In January 2005, 24 Navy ships and one
Coast Guard vessel were in the area. Among those ships was the amphibious assault ship
USS Essex (LHD 2) which relieved the USS Bonhomme Richard and assumed the duties as the primary rotary wing platform for the operation. The USS Essex brought helicopter detachments from US Navy helicopter squadrons
HM-15 and
HC-5 as well as Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 (HMM-262), the Flying Tigers (commanded by Lt.Col. Kevin "Doogie" Wild). The last ship,
Mercy, departed the region in April 2005.
During a short-fused change of command on 30 December 2004, LtCol Kevin H. Wild assumed command of HMM-262 and promptly received a Warning Order to deploy to Sumatra, Indonesia for its second consecutive short-notice deployment in two months. The squadron worked around the clock over the New Year’s weekend preparing for the deployment. Two CH-46Es were flown to Kadena AB on 31 December and broken down for C-5 transport to Singapore, and six more were flown aboard the
USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) on 3 January. With a detachment of the squadron in Singapore, and the majority of HMM-262 aboard the Fort McHenry, HMM-262 set sail as part of Combined Support Force 536 (CSF-536) to support the largest humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) operation in history – Operation Unified Assistance/JTF-536.
More here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unified_Assistance
