The FACTS a Americans contribute nearly 1 trillion every year to
charities. You may think that is stingy, but that would be incorrect.

Bill Bollinger
www.gsxn.com


"John Wallace" > wrote in message
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> Your ex-President said the US is stingy - I did not.
>
> Get YOUR facts straight.
>
> Bill Bollinger wrote:
>> Well John, what you FAIL to quantify is how much Americans give FREELY
>> and not through Government Control. While you guys need someone at the
>> top to command you to give, we as a general rule give FREELY as
>> Americans. Your numbers only count for Government Aid, not what is given
>> in total by American citizens. The next time you imply that Americans as
>> a general rule are STINGY, get your facts straight.
>>
>> BTW, Just through our GOVERNAMENT not including our citizens, we give 60
>> TIMES ($58 Billion more in total) more than Denmark does in forein aid.
>> BTW, our country does not have 60 times more citizens than Denmark and
>> Denmark has a higher GDP per capita than America... Therefore, based upon
>> the higher GDP per capita why isn't Denmark contributing more?
>>
>> Bill Bollinger
>> www.gsxn.com
>>
>>
>> "John Wallace" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>>Mitch_A wrote:
>>>
>>>>Somehow you can just blind yourself of anything good the US has ever
>>>
>>>done.
>>>
>>>>Do we make mistakes? Of course we do. But we also contribute much more
>>>>than weve taken unlike a majority of the free world.
>>>
>>>Sorry Mitch, that just isn't true
>>>
>>>The UN set a target of 0.7% of GDP should be given as aid - this target
>>>was recently increased in response to public demands to resolve the
>>>tragedies occurring daily in Africa.
>>>
>>>Top of the foreign aid league is Denmark (1.01% of GDP), and Sweden,
>>>Norway and the Netherlands also meet the target. The US gives 0.1% of GDP
>>>as aid, as former President Carter described, "we are the stingiest
>>>nation of all". We're little better, Britain gives just 0.34%.
>>>
>>>In the last foreign aid bill passed in the US, 75 million was passed for
>>>aif to poor countries (this amounts to one tenth the cost of a B-52!). In
>>>the same budget, 1.3 *BILLION* was approved to support the Colombian
>>>military (who have one of the world's worst records for human rights
>>>violations).
>>>
>>>
>>>>Im not saying this in
>>>>an egotistical way Im saying this in defensive way. The US (despite
>>>
>>>your
>>>
>>>>clouded nonsense) is a great country and a great collection of people
>>>
>>>that
>>>
>>>>want the best for the World and everyone in it.
>>>
>>>Mitch, I *truly* believe that is what you and most US people want, and
>>>it's a fantastic sentiment. However that is not what is happening.
>>
>>