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Foreign aid is listed as 47 billion from the US government in, albeit several years old . 242 Billion is private donations to charity.

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Foreign aid is listed as 47 billion from the US government in

What is that? The source?

Americans gave 241 billion to charity in 2003 (Source: http://www.aafrc.org/).

American in 2004 taxpayers gave $1.1 trillion in charity to various social welfare programs (Source: The U.S. Budget).

Excluded from the $1.1 trillion figure is giving of aid to foreign governments.