Armenia Allots $200,000 in Assistance to Victims of Katrina Hurricane

[TomServo]

edit: love the subtle way of calling deb a commie. so cute. let's also do the parajanov museum. my treat.

Yeah, you'd make Red Brigade proud.

[CatWoman]

how you now have to pay a fee to enjoy the beautiful shore of lake sevan, whereas before, it was free for all (that and many other examples).

Hold on, so you have to pay to go by lake Sevan?? How much??

I'll be visiting next summer.

[thedebutante]

Hold on, so you have to pay to go by lake Sevan?? How much??

I'll be visiting next summer.

i dont remember exactly, because my uncle paid, but as someone from the US, it would be a trivial amount for you. basically you pay to park your car and then to go on the shore. it's kind of sad.

[TomServo]

Meh...

[CatWoman]

I don't know... but most of the time I go to the beach here, I pay for parking.

[thedebutante]

ya, but that's something new in armenia. and even the public beaches here don't make you pay to go on the sand and in the water. i guess if you've never been to armenia before, all the stuff you see there wont be a big deal and all in all you'll be very impressed by how much yerevan is starting to look like a typical euro city. but when you visit, you may want to spend some of your time outside of yerevan (and not just to visit historical landmarks, but to see the villages and the people living in them, the unfinished projects because of discontinued funding, and the abandoned homes because people could no longer make a living in armenia but kept their homes with hopes that they would one day return).

[Kamo]

i think it costs around 2000AMD to park your car at sevan near the beach, who allowed these mafiosa to own the lakes shores, i dont quite know...

As for the donation, if its going to be a symbolic gesture, then why give so much? imagine that money going to universities or schools in Armenia, or even the people who are dying from lack of medicines in Armenia today? Politics is being played with lives here, at what point does an american life value more than an Armenian?

Answer should be, both are equal, and in my opinion they are. However, surely the american government has enough money to quite easily pay for the damages and for the vital aid needed by its citizens in New Orleans? After all, it has turned down aid of money, medince, doctors and oil sent by Cuba and Venezuela, surely it must mean it can deal with the crisis itself?

[CatWoman]

ya, but that's something new in armenia. and even the public beaches here don't make you pay to go on the sand and in the water.

That's what I'm asking... paying to go on the sand and water is way different from paying for parking. For some reason, paying for parking doesn't seem like a bad idea even if it's new and you didn't have to pay before. Life is getting expensive around the world. After all, if they collect money they can use the money for maintenance and new projects by the shore. But if it's not parking, and each person has to pay to go in the water, now that's absurd. Hope that's not the case.

[karoaper]

That's what I'm asking... paying to go on the sand and water is way different from paying for parking. For some reason, paying for parking doesn't seem like a bad idea even if it's new and you didn't have to pay before. Life is getting expensive around the world. After all, if they collect money they can use the money for maintenance and new projects by the shore. But if it's not parking, and each person has to pay to go in the water, now that's absurd. Hope that's not the case.

I'm afraid "absurd" yes, "money for maintenance" no.