What Jan Egeland [Mr. Stingy] really said [short transcript]

UN ^ | 12-27-04 | Jan Egeland

[OXENinFLA]

So is this what has been in the news?

The stingy remark is nothing compared to his remark about how "all" of the US thinks and how our Politicians view us.

[OXENinFLA]

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[ican'tbelieveit]

A guy on Fox News explained it well. Norway is proud that they donate .9% of their gdp (i think it is) to foreign aid (possibly disaster relief), while the US only donates .14% of their gdp. But, no one took into account the amount the US gives privately, and thru other avenues.

[plangent]

Perhaps if more of the Third World Disaster countries fully
observed Christmas, there would be less poverty and more
prosperity.

[Santana]

Bianca Jagger was mouthing off today also about how "stingy" the United States is. What a twit.

[MidlandDesperado]

Liberals like to give away other people's money. I wonder how much he personally gave towards this disaster relief.

[Howlin]

I saw that. Witch.

[Army Air Corps]

The last I checked, .14% of the US GDP translates into a sh*tload more cash than .9% of Norway's GDP.

[swheats]

cha ching bump

Has the UN and others forgotten we have a war to finance? If they have I hope our team remembers our priorities.

[Howlin]

The verbatim quote from Jan.

[vezke]

umm, what?

They serve alcoholic egg nog at the UN? Because I really didnt understand much of what I just read.

He could've said the aliens have landed and are leaving with our women and I would be none the wiser.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Yeap. The host on Fox pointed out that Norwegians are taxed up to their hairlines. And, also pointed out that no other nation can probably compete with our private donations.

[OXENinFLA]

Please don't take my lack of remarks tonight as me ignoring y'all, It's way past my bed time and I'll continue back on this tomorrow morning when I get to work. [around 7amest]

YAWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN I'm going to bed..........

[Sonar5]

Good Find,

They also did not count food donations in those figures.

And they don't define our donations to sources within our own country that then go on to donate as a group to foreign AID..

Regards,
Joe

[Eric in the Ozarks]

His socialist outlook is obvious from his remark that the pie in finite. In free societies where ownership of property is allowed and voluntary exchange is encouraged, the pie is infinite. Only at the UN and in certain areas of the Iron Range do people still hold these primitive views.

[Jaded]

What a rat b****rd. I think we should divert ALL foreign aid, except 2 or 3 countries, to this disaster. After that they can all go hang.

[annyokie]

Blonde woman reporter? That's a necissary detail?

[RJL]

Why are we so stingy really? When we are ...and even at Christmas time should remind many Western countries at least, how rich we have become and if actually the foreign assistance of many countries now is 0.1 or 0.2% of their gross national income. I think that is stingy really, I don't think that is very generous....

The USA gives .13% or .14% I've seen both numbers used.

Jan's remark was Aimed directly at the USA.

Myself and anyone else would rather have the USA's .13% of a $10 trillion economy than Norway's 1% because the USA's .13% is a vastly larger amount of money. Those that want to bad mouth America use the percent because that is the only measurement that we're not number one in.

Part of the luxury of having a $10 trillion economy is that we can do so many more things because each thing takes a smaller slice of the $10 trillion economic pie.

[Rocky]

Everybody is drooling over the possibility of a huge slush fund for "relief". I sympathize with the thousands who lost loved ones, and the millions who lost their homes and other possessions. But giving a potload of money to the U.N. is not the answer. Remember Oil for Food.

And notice how the countries affected have started raising the statistics for loss of life? Soon, they will be doing the same for cost of rebuilding. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. The country which screams the loudest and claims the most loss will get the highest amount of relief from the U.N. (after Kofi and boys take their cut).

[Welsh Rabbit]

The last I checked, .14% of the US GDP translates into a sh*tload more cash than .9% of Norway's GDP.

Leftists have always been big on empty gestures. Plus, unlike Norway, we have a significant amount of natural disasters of our own quite regularly. How much foreign aid can we count on from the rest of the world?