Posted on 12/28/2004 8:02:21 PM PST by OXENinFLA
Since there's a huge uproar over the comments made by Jan Egeland and there doesn't seem to be a transcript of the press conference posted by the UN (and even if you E-mail the UN they tell you to read a Fox News Transcript of him backpedalling because his comments were "taken out of context.")
I decided to transcribe the relevant part of the press conference so all could read what this arrogant UN Humanitarian really said. And he said a bunch.
[I can't make out the question.]
[31:00]JE: "It is really a problem that for to many rich countries..er. it's..the pie is finite... to take out a slice and [????] is left for the rest, and I think an unprecedented disaster like this one should lead to unprecedented generosity from countries that should be new and additional funds, cause I wouldn't want to see many of our friends, the donor countries, depleating their natural disaster coffers the 1st two weeks of Jan. then have nothing more when we come to other disasters. Some others have the same, some for all disasters in the world, I'm afraid for the coming year, cause there are several donors who are actualy less generous than before in a growing world economy."
[SKIP]
[40:40] Blond Woman Reporter: "When you were talking about donor countries that in a growing economy that were giving less are you prepared to name them?
JE: "No.. er... ah....I would say that ..er....I'd rather say that it is remarkable that we may, we have ...um...no country up to the 1%...um..line of foreign assistance in general and we have, I think, three ....um...Scandinavians that have exceeded, and Holland, the 0.7% line of cross national income for assistance...em....We were more generous when we were less rich, many of the rich countries. And it is beyond me why we are. 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.... And I have an additional point. Politicians do not understand their own populations, because all the populations, in the United States, in the European Union, in Norway which is number one in the world, we want to give more as...as voters as taxpayers. People say we should give what we give now or more. Politicians [?? upon ??] their belief that they are really burdening the taxpayers to much and the taxpayer wants to give less, that's not true. They want to give more."
And he said he didn't mention the United States by name?
...in Norway which is number one in the world...
Not per capita, baby.
...we want to give more as...as voters as taxpayers...
I'd like to see him back that up.
People say we should give what we give now or more.
Who the heck is he talking about?
United State's GDP is $10.99 trillion x 0.14% = 1.538.600.000
The above numbers from CIA World Fact Book. I hope I got the math right. :-9
Libs and Socialists never deal in terms of dollars always percentages to hide their socialistic ways.
It's their pathetic attempt to justify their own inadequacies.
Regards,
Joe
But, we don't give enough. We are stingy. We want to be taxed more to give more. Our politicians just don't understand that is our desire.
She don't give no . . . satisfaction.
UN's Jan Egeland Responds to Freeper Email
And lots of Freepers would like to know about all of this.....
"She don't give no . . . satisfaction."
Must be because ole' Bianca was stingy herself to poor old Mick. :)
"I wonder how much he personally gave towards this disaster relief."
ME TOO! I wonder if he has given, personally, out of his own pocket, even ONE DOLLAR!
the $124-billion figure for Norway's GDP represents purchasing power parity (ppp), the dollar value of the universal "basket" of goods and services that Norway's GDP earnings could buy (within Norway, at Norwegian prices).
GDP: US$10.45 trillion
She didn't find it; she downloaed it and transcribed it for us.
Plus there is this:
6/19/03
Bernville, PA, USA - Medical product donations distributed overseas by private humanitarian organization members of the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) exceeded $812 million in 2002, 44% above 2001’s $564 million, newly released data show. The new data bring PQMD members’ donations since 1998 to $2.7 billion.
The idiot doesn't have a prayer,with FR around.Let's rub his nose in his own words.Those of you who know HTML,Send him his own words in an E-mail.Send the transcript to the N.Y. Post,Rush,Sean,and everyone else you can think of.
European viewpoint: This State(country) gives more, therefore this State cares more.
American viewpoint: It's my money, and I choose when & where to give.
2002 Generosity Index ALL RETURNS by State
State Average Income Charitable Contribution Giving as % of AGI
United States $46,160 $3,455 7.48%
Mississippi $33,754 $4,484 13.28%
Arkansas $35,467 $4,303 12.13%
Oklahoma $37,098 $4,117 11.10%
Louisiana $37,102 $3,940 10.62%
Alabama $38,472 $4,136 10.75%
Tennessee $39,773 $4,856 12.21%
South Dakota $35,907 $3,746 10.43%
Utah $41,042 $5,596 13.63%
South Carolina $38,123 $3,830 10.05%
Idaho $37,636 $3,379 8.98%
Wyoming $43,817 $6,356 14.51%
Texas $43,546 $4,540 10.42%
West Virginia $34,941 $3,114 8.91%
Nebraska $39,708 $3,421 8.62%
North Dakota $35,654 $3,124 8.76%
North Carolina $41,896 $3,579 8.54%
Kansas $42,187 $3,505 8.31%
Florida $43,875 $3,779 8.61%
Georgia $44,802 $3,937 8.79%
Kentucky $38,210 $3,072 8.04%
Montana $33,775 $2,814 8.33%
Sorry, but I don't seem to be able to get the formatting correct.
Ahhh...
You are correct...
Oh, BTW, Glad you got Responses, neither of mine to him received responses. I posted mine in the other thread where I listed the email addresses last night.
I did get an out of office reply from Stephanie Bunker though...
Regards,
Joe
The UN recommends .7% of GNP be given as foreign aid.
Only socialist countries meet or exceed the .7% statistic. That is because THE PEOPLE HAVE NO CHOICE!!!!! They have to give HUGE percentages of their income to their governments and their GOVERNMENTS get to choose who gets THEIR $$$$....
It's VERY different here in the world of democracy. Our citizens, our corporations, and our government give generously.
America makes me proud - especially when the world needs us.
Maybe if Norway (and many others, too) had to pay for its own defense, they would have less to give away.
...not to mention if they also paid a hefty chunk toward the defense of others.
Seems like that should also be counted into Uncle Sugar's 'giving' column.
BTW, I wonder how much should be added to our disater donations total for sending two entire air craft carrier groups, and extra aircraft with supplies, to the scene to assist. That certainly can't be cheap.
It would be nice to see how much private donations equal to. Anyone have those statistics?
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I saw that and wondered the same thing!!! I keep wanting to say - "what's that supposed to mean?"
YEAH!!!
Uncle Sugar's Giving Column...
ROFLMAO
Thanks E for the ping.
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