Posted on 12/28/2004 4:54:25 PM PST by filly
The "messenger" is a scrooge.
hmmmm...do you happen to know what the price of tea is in China? Just wondering, since here in the States, apples and oranges are priced differently.
FMCDH(BITS)
I don't know the price of tea in China, do you ?
I do know that if you don't count the money we are spending in afghanistan, Iraq and Israel, we give extremely little foreign aid that is in the govt. budget.
How much individuals give, I don't know, and I don't know if you count money sent by foreign workers here to their families as foreign aid.
Not necessarily.
Aid can come in the form of many packages. Canceling billions of dollars of debt, funding the United Nations, Bush's $15 billion to Africa for HIV, direct assistance programs to many nations, . . .
Add it ALL up and it is far more than what many say. This crap about the U.S. spending .13 of its GDP versus other nations spending .20 is bogus. They are ferrring to ONE program. Most nations have one major foreign aid program. The U.S. has more aid programs than the U.N. has members.
More like you could not answer my post with a meaningful comment.
They have pledged, dont hold you breath till you see it.
Meant $9 trillion.
Thank you for aligning that photo to the left. I failed to enter a paragraph break.
As I am, but you and I approach this from different angles.
You favor the U.S. throwing money to corrupt nations, hoping that some of the money not skimmed away into Swiss Bank accounts finds its way to a few poor people.
I favor not sending one cent in aid to any nation until a full army of auditors is assembled and assigned to track every dollar spent and to see it gets into the right hands. Since we do not do the latter, I am against sending one penny in aid.
The report on Fox showed France chipping in $136,000.
They were last on the list.
dancowwin,
Maybe you would be happier at DU....
I suspect you as a Troll.....
Interesting posts you've made thus far TODAY....
Socialism...
Gays...
Anti-Military....
GO AWAY TROLL......
No doubt some of the aid is going to be funneled to terrorists.
I heard on the radio an appeal from a woman who is from Sri Lanka, now living in America but with family still in Sri Lanka, to NOT send any aid to Sri Lanka since she said aid to Sri Lanka has been going to corrupt officials for years.
Sri Lanka also has refused to receive Israeli relief workers since "they are Jews". With an attitude like that, where do you think this money is going to go? Who will receive the money in Sri Lanka to distribute (supposedly)? The common people, or officials? The officials, who happen to be corrupt and will pocket some of it and give the rest to terrorists.
And guess what, I heard we have pledged money directly to Sri Lanka. Your tax dollars and mine are going to go into the pockets of terrorists. Who knows, all this aid money may be enough to give the terrorists enough cash to get a nuke on the black market.
LOLOLOL!!!! :)
EU has pledged £20.7 million. At current exchange rates that is just under $40 million US.
Please note that that is the EUs contribution - not that from individual countries or NGOs. Examples being Oxfams current $600k donation.
There is a difference between never-ending foreign aid (the best foreign aid I could think of would be allowing the U.S. to economically develop Baja California and take 49.9% of the profits...Mexico would be bloody rich with the 50.1%), and disaster relief efforts (which most people here generally seem to support, including me).
Was that net of all kickbacks, or gross? If the latter, then they probably will make a profit.
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