Posted on 01/02/2005 4:00:27 PM PST by wagglebee
Columnist Charles Krauthammer blasted U.N. officials and other America-bashers Sunday morning for trying to paint the U.S.'s foreign aid contribution as "stingy" in the wake of the Asia tsunami disaster - especially since the facts prove exactly the opposite.
"We are six percent, or less, of the world's population," Krauthammer told his fellow "Fox News Sunday" panelists. "We give almost half [of the global foreign aid]. ... We give 60 percent of all the food aid on the planet."
And that's not all: "We maintain a military infrastructure that keeps the peace in the world," he noted. "We are the only people who do that."
"It's simply irresponsible to talk about the United States as anything other than the most generous nation in the world," Krauthammer said.
The conservative columnist was responding to "FNS" panelist Ceci Connolly, who suggested that U.S. aid contributions were stingy in comparison to the nearly $1 billion of federal relief that poured into the state of Florida during last year's hurricane epidemic, which killed a mere 100 Americans.
Using Connolly's math, a contribution proportionate to the 120,000 deaths reported so far in the tsunami crisis would compel the U.S. to donate $1.2 trillion in disaster relief to the affected countries.
Krauthammer is one of my true heroes. The guy is smart, eloquent, and has guts.
The left has for years been talking about how we use most of the world's resources, but I haven't seen any up-to-date verification of this. I have a feeling that China is using more natural resources than we are. And even the left's wording "most of the world's resources" is incorrect, the term should me "more resources than any other country in the world." I know that some will see it as semantics, but the idea that we are using up the world's resources is absurd, but a lot of people believe it because they've heard the lamestream media repeat it so often.
Hear hear!
A well said reply! Nice job.
As you stated, I am sure the cost of the carrier battle groups is NOT included in any amount of aid given by the USA. Free help.
I agree....and he slaps Ceci reeeeeeal good!
She and Juan Williams. They make me sick.
"We are the world's Little Red Hen, except that after planting, growing and harvesting the wheat, grinding it into flour and baking the bread, we give the bread away and get blamed that it isn't enough, doesn't meet cultural expectations and there's no butter."
Very well put. I'm saving that one. :)
She apparently has taken it upon herself to confront Krauthammer, utterly unaware of the foolhardiness of it.
She is completely outclassed, and the doltess does not even realize it.
<< The conservative columnist was responding to "FNS" panelist Ceci Connolly, who suggested that U.S. aid contributions were stingy in comparison to the nearly $1 billion of federal relief that poured into the state of Florida during last year's hurricane epidemic, which killed a mere 100 Americans. >>
No mention of course that -- with only one other nation, Australia, ever standing steadfastly at our side -- despite our nation having expended Trillions of Dollars and the lives of hundreds of thousands tidying up leftover british and other old-Euro-peon colonial f***-ups and rescuing the rest of the bloody world from itself and from ther consequences of its own actions and defending it and feeding it for more than one hundred years not one of the Euro-peon Neo-Soviets squalidly fasciSSocialistic satellite staes nor any of the rest of the world has ever donated a single brass Razoo to American disaster relief!
I'm increasingly coming to despise ungrateful ingrates!
That will be difficult for Ceci - she doesn't have much to work with.
I'm with you, the only country we seem to be able to depend on consistently is Australia, and Jaques Querri's sister worked her damnedest to put an end to that.
BUMPping
'Doltess', that's a good one!
I was thinking 'twitlet' myself, but I think I like yours better!
I was thinking sheepshagging slut. Why's that?
Thank you for that remark. I've been accepting the phrase that the U.S. uses 90% of the worlds resources or whatever, it is they claim, and haven't questioned it. Now, thanks to you, I will (-:
It sounds horrible, but you're not being callous enough. This post addresses the logic well:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311972/posts
Pinging the Shagmeister !
LOL!!!!
Consider all that we've been through in the last few years. We had 9/11 and then have fought two wars. We had...well, I lost count on how many hurricanes we had. We've had as much death and destruction as any country, any people on the planet, yet we still find it within ourselves to contribute money, manpower(person power?), etc. to the victims of the tsunami, in addition to the aid we normally contribute world wide. And you know, if any country, even those who profess to hate us, were to ask for help, we'd be there.
We are a good, kind and decent people and we don't need acknowledgment to do the right thing. No good deed goes unpunished, but that doesn't stop us from doing the right thing.
I think the American people are very generous, to a fault....
I bet our private giving would dwarf most countries...
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