At 14:46 3-2-2003 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
Well, rather than just spouting your usual "America is the greatest country in the world" rhetoric, please provide us with actual hard data about the "charitable efforts" of various countries (government-paid and private donations, total amounts and amount per capita, in absolute figures and as percentage of GDP).Additionally, the American people are possibly the most generous people in the world, and in the US we have a strong tradition of private donations to charities, rather than government-confiscated donations to charity. Thus, it is important when comparing the charitable efforts of Americans with those of other nationalities to use *total* national donation, as private donations are much more significant in the US than most every other place in the world. If you look at that total number, I think that you will see that the American people are quite generous when it comes to charitably supporting the rest of the world.
A discussion about this topic is useless if you only provide rhetoric and not facts.
Jeroen "Facts, not rhetoric" van Baardwijk
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