Re: [OT] I hate being American

From: Gactimus (gactimus_at_xrs.net)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:34:58 GMT

Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in news:41D41FCA.2000007@nospam.com:

> Perion wrote:
>
>> Even though making money and private property ownership is viewed as
>> gluttonous greed in the anti-American knee-jerk (emphasis on jerk!)
>> babble, the fact is, American and Americans' generosity accounts for
>> the vast majority of "third-world" developmental and humanitarian aid
>> that exists on this f'n planet.
>
> Not as a percentage of GNP we don't. This has been the accepted formula
> as to share of aid, but the US backed out of using it, claiming that our
> GNP grew disproportionately faster than any other, which is true. All of
> our developmental and humanitarian aid is being scaled back because Bush
> has bankrupted the government. Also, Bush has been famous for
> budgeting money and then refusing to spend it, humanitarian relief has
> definitely suffered under his administration, and USAID has been caught
> falsifying their data to an extreme on several occasions. It may be that
> the damage and death caused by the US in Iraq is of such astronomical
> proportions that the tsunami fiasco seems small by comparison.

The United States dispatched disaster teams and prepared a $15 million aid
package to the Asian countries, and the 25-nation European Union promised
to deliver a mere $4 million.

I am SO glad that we have the EU with an almost identical GDP as the United
States and a vastly greater population to donate just over a quarter of
what the United States gave in immediate foreign aid. That's fantastic,
thanks Monsieur Chirac! Thanks Herr Schroeder!

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