Thanks for posting as I doubt if I'll see this story on the evening news.
For shame! Don't you know that the only "aid" that counts as far as the beautiful people are concerned is that which is extricated from taxpayers pockets and doled out by the benevolent state?
Private charities are a primitive anachronism. It should be left to our betters to decide what to do with our money.
All foreign aid should be private.
My prediction is that private aid goes directly into work that helps real people, whereas government to government aid buys apartments in the south of France.
This can't be, Clinton just said how stingy we are...
Wonder why the Slimester Clinton didnt have those figures?
I am pinging this article because I was telling my husband today that the Live 8 thing was putting pressure on a country US that have given quite a lot thank-you...
He was wondering why I didn't want to watch this one, when we did watch the first one in the 80's...
I said, first of all, I don't like the music as much, but when Geldof and the group say that these concerts weren't for raising money from the people that watched, it was as a message for the Group of 8 meeting this week...
Not only do they want America to write off ALL debt of Africa's countries, they want the US to give MORE money, and they want tariff FREE trade....
So, in other words, instead of having citizens of the world, like they are, money out of the goodness of their hearts and their own pockets, they want the American and other countries citizens to be taxed 3 (THREE) TIMES in order to furnish funds for the potentates and dictators of corrupt regimes....
Fool us once, shame on you---fool us twice, shame on us...
Europe (France in specific) = Too little Too late, talks a lot but does a little
ping!
Nor should they ever feel confident enough to take continual cheap shots at them as that Narcissistic Jackass did yesterday, as so many Disloyal Democrats do when in Europe (and here). There is a limit to the crap that you can dump on us. Damn it! Why the heck is 41 hanging out with this guy, what the hell is going on.
Good post bump! ;-)
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Indeed we are. Through wars, rebuilding, natural disasters, you name it, Americans are there.
I think it shows that we give far more when we're not forced to give.
The dollars do not include the amount of TIME and the cost of travel for people that build new homes, create temporary medical clinics and dig wells or other infer structure projects. This would add billions more and shows how our aid is used to increase airline and other international revenues.</p>
But this model ignores the private donations made possible by the lower tax burden in the US of 31.8%, against the eurozone's 45.6%. Figures for philanthropic donations have been collected for the first time by the Hudson Institute.
The 2003 figure counted money pledged by the Clinton administration, Adelman said. Since then President Bush has pledged to take aid to Africa from $1.2bn-a-year to $8.7bn a year by 2010.
Adelman added: "We're already world number one in absolute aid assistance. By the time the additional pledges are delivered, we will probably be number one in relative terms in about two years' time."
And that, btw, would still not include the absolutely huge, indispensable (and extremely expensive) contributions we make towards global security.
Consider only the tens of billions of dollars for the 5th Fleet, maintaining security for oil shipments in the Persian Gulf. If the oil generating countries had to provide or contract the necessary security themselves, and then pass the cost to consumers, what would that do to the price of oil? Add $5 dollars a barrel? Maybe even $15 or $20? This is related to development since (along with wellness and health-care) cheap energy is the primary factor in maintaining high growth rates in developing countries. (It's important to economic growth rates in the developed world too, of course, but to nothing like the same degree relative to other factors.)
Bump.