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Originally Posted by baxter
Am I not seeing the same numbers as everyone else? France and the UK make up approximately the amount of US$ the US gives in aid. This is for a combined population of about 115 million people, compared to 300 million people in the US.
I was just showing that Europe is much more generous that the US is interms of aid. You need to look at the GNI to see how much it represents for a country. Imagine a poor person who gives 25$ to a charity, and a hugely rich person who gives 25$, the poor one is being more generous being as it represents a larger percentage of his income.
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But who the hell says that the rich person has to give jack shit to anyone? Much less the poor person. How the hell can you criticize someone for GIVING anything to anyone. Its not like we owe this money to anyone, we're GIVING it away. What kind of ass hole takes money from someone and then bitches about how much they were given?
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