On just one website - Amazon.Com - people have donated $11,033,019.20 to the Red Cross for disaster relief related to the Tsunami. This is roughly one third of the total amount that the US initially donated, althoughthey have subsequently upped the initial amount by a factor of ten. This mean that the per capita spending of the US is about $1.20 (up from the 12 cents of the initial amount). Qatar's per capita contribution is approx. $16. Meanwhile we spend millions of dollars on a missile defense system that doesn't work.