This country could certainly use some good karma.

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:31:40 GMT, "DeWayne" wrote:

Well Uncle Sam is again chipping in to help the victims of earthquake and
tsunami. Let's see who else chips in. Rich Arabs? Muslim nations? Don't hold
your breath.

starman wrote:

DeWayne wrote:

Well Uncle Sam is again chipping in to help the victims of earthquake and
tsunami. Let's see who else chips in. Rich Arabs? Muslim nations? Don't hold
your breath.

Uncle Sam's international disaster relief aid budget is nothing to brag
about either. There isn't a single country that spends even one per cent
of it's GNP on international aid, including the US.

I don't know if it's still accurate, but this web site:

http://www.aglimmerofhope.org/philanthrophy/newsweek_02_02.htm

has a quote from a February 2002 Newsweek article that says private American donors give 2.1% of our GNP to foreign aid each year. This is in addition to what our government gives. Here's a quote I like from the article:

"No nation comes even remotely close to the U.S. on these things," says Scott Walker of the Philanthropy Roundtable. "If you're in Sweden or France, it's something the government is supposed to do. If you were in England, it is the nobility. Americans
don't think it's enough to say, 'I gave at the office with taxes'."

beerbrain wrote:

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:11:54 GMT, m II
wrote:


beerbarrel wrote:


The Pacific is by far the most active tsunami zone, according to the
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But
tsunamis have been generated in other bodies of water, including the
Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas, and the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
North Atlantic tsunamis included the tsunami associated with the 1775
Lisbon earthquake that killed as many as 60,000 people in Portugal,
Spain, and North Africa. This quake caused a tsunami as high as 23
feet (7 meters) in the Caribbean.



Plagiarist.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...6_tsunami.html



So sue me....


dxHaze HATES plagiarists. Ask Mike Terry. He forgot to put an
accompanying URL with a quote once and got branded as a thief by your
hero.

I don't expect dxHaze to bother you, though. Hypocrites.




mike

m II wrote:

beerbrain wrote:

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:11:54 GMT, m II
wrote:


beerbarrel wrote:


The Pacific is by far the most active tsunami zone, according to the
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But
tsunamis have been generated in other bodies of water, including the
Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas, and the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
North Atlantic tsunamis included the tsunami associated with the 1775
Lisbon earthquake that killed as many as 60,000 people in Portugal,
Spain, and North Africa. This quake caused a tsunami as high as 23
feet (7 meters) in the Caribbean.



Plagiarist.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...6_tsunami.html



So sue me....

dxHaze HATES plagiarists. Ask Mike Terry. He forgot to put an
accompanying URL with a quote once and got branded as a thief by your
hero.

And actually Mike Terry ripped off my exact words as posted here and posted them
in another forum without attribution.

He's been known in the past for doing that.

Now you just go tote it, 'tard boy, and leave the real radio stuff to the big
boys.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Mark S. Holden wrote:

I don't know if it's still accurate, but this web site:

http://www.aglimmerofhope.org/philanthrophy/newsweek_02_02.htm

has a quote from a February 2002 Newsweek article that says private American donors give 2.1% of our GNP to foreign aid each year. This is in addition to what our government gives. Here's a quote I like from the article:

"No nation comes even remotely close to the U.S. on these things," says Scott Walker of the Philanthropy Roundtable. "If you're in Sweden or France, it's something the government is supposed to do. If you were in England, it is the nobility. Americans
don't think it's enough to say, 'I gave at the office with taxes'."


00.14 percent. Nowhere near what you quoted.


=====================================
In 2003, Norway spent $308 per capita on foreign aid, compared to
$23.76 for the United States.

http://www.fsmitha.com/world/norway.html
=====================================


Stupid subscription site:

=====================================
Almost a third of the way into the program (United Nations Millennium
Declaration which we signed), the latest available figures show that
the percentage of United States income going to poor countries remains
near rock bottom: 0.14 percent of GNP). Britain is at 0.34 percent,
and France at 0.41 percent. (Norway and Sweden, to no one's surprise,
are already exceeding the goal, at 0.92 percent and 0.79 percent.)

The government spends $450 billion annually on the military, and $15
billion on development help for poor countries, a 30-to-1 ratio that,
as Mr. Sachs puts it, shows how the nation has become "all war and no
peace in our foreign policy."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/23/op...?oref=login&th
=====================================

m II wrote:

Mark S. Holden wrote:

I don't know if it's still accurate, but this web site:

http://www.aglimmerofhope.org/philanthrophy/newsweek_02_02.htm

has a quote from a February 2002 Newsweek article that says private American donors give 2.1% of our GNP to foreign aid each year. This is in addition to what our government gives. Here's a quote I like from the article:

"No nation comes even remotely close to the U.S. on these things," says Scott Walker of the Philanthropy Roundtable. "If you're in Sweden or France, it's something the government is supposed to do. If you were in England, it is the nobility. Americans
don't think it's enough to say, 'I gave at the office with taxes'."

00.14 percent. Nowhere near what you quoted.


You really need to do a Google on CanaDuh's failing foreign aid policy's, 'tard boy.

LMAO at both you, and CanaDuh.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Boycott CanaDuh.

m II wrote:

Mark S. Holden wrote:

I don't know if it's still accurate, but this web site:

http://www.aglimmerofhope.org/philanthrophy/newsweek_02_02.htm

has a quote from a February 2002 Newsweek article that says private American donors give 2.1% of our GNP to foreign aid each year. This is in addition to what our government gives. Here's a quote I like from the article:

"No nation comes even remotely close to the U.S. on these things," says Scott Walker of the Philanthropy Roundtable. "If you're in Sweden or France, it's something the government is supposed to do. If you were in England, it is the nobility. Americans
don't think it's enough to say, 'I gave at the office with taxes'."

00.14 percent. Nowhere near what you quoted.

=====================================
In 2003, Norway spent $308 per capita on foreign aid, compared to
$23.76 for the United States.

http://www.fsmitha.com/world/norway.html
=====================================

Stupid subscription site:

=====================================
Almost a third of the way into the program (United Nations Millennium
Declaration which we signed), the latest available figures show that
the percentage of United States income going to poor countries remains
near rock bottom: 0.14 percent of GNP). Britain is at 0.34 percent,
and France at 0.41 percent. (Norway and Sweden, to no one's surprise,
are already exceeding the goal, at 0.92 percent and 0.79 percent.)

The government spends $450 billion annually on the military, and $15
billion on development help for poor countries, a 30-to-1 ratio that,
as Mr. Sachs puts it, shows how the nation has become "all war and no
peace in our foreign policy."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/23/op...?oref=login&th
=====================================

What? No figures for CanaDuh?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Boycott CanaDuh.

beerbarrel wrote:

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:48:21 GMT, m II
wrote:

beerbrain wrote:

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:11:54 GMT, m II
wrote:


beerbarrel wrote:


The Pacific is by far the most active tsunami zone, according to the
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But
tsunamis have been generated in other bodies of water, including the
Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas, and the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
North Atlantic tsunamis included the tsunami associated with the 1775
Lisbon earthquake that killed as many as 60,000 people in Portugal,
Spain, and North Africa. This quake caused a tsunami as high as 23
feet (7 meters) in the Caribbean.



Plagiarist.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...6_tsunami.html



So sue me....


dxHaze HATES plagiarists. Ask Mike Terry. He forgot to put an
accompanying URL with a quote once and got branded as a thief by your
hero.

I don't expect dxHaze to bother you, though. Hypocrites.




mike

Mike,

Did you see me sign my name to it?

The only thing that I sign my name to is the fact that you are a tard
from Canaduh!

Beerbarrel

Sorry for plagiarizing your m II description DxAce. It could not be
helped. It's just so fitting!

It's in the public domain!

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Boycott CanaDuh.

m II wrote:

Mark S. Holden wrote:

I don't know if it's still accurate, but this web site:

http://www.aglimmerofhope.org/philanthrophy/newsweek_02_02.htm

has a quote from a February 2002 Newsweek article that says private American donors give 2.1% of our GNP to foreign aid each year. This is in addition to what our government gives. Here's a quote I like from the article:

"No nation comes even remotely close to the U.S. on these things," says Scott Walker of the Philanthropy Roundtable. "If you're in Sweden or France, it's something the government is supposed to do. If you were in England, it is the nobility. Americans
don't think it's enough to say, 'I gave at the office with taxes'."

00.14 percent. Nowhere near what you quoted.

=====================================
In 2003, Norway spent $308 per capita on foreign aid, compared to
$23.76 for the United States.

http://www.fsmitha.com/world/norway.html
==============================


Mike

I saw the .14% figure you found listed someplace as the figure for foreign charitable donations by the U.S. Government. I don't know if that includes all foreign aid, or if it's a subset of the total.

The 2.1% figure I quoted is for foreign charitable donations by private citizens. This would make the total donations from the USA 2.24% of GNP.

IIRC, I read the government of Norway gives .92% of GNP as charitable foreign aid.

I don't know what percentage their individuals give, but the article I provided the link to said "No nation comes even remotely close to the U.S. on these things,"

"Mark S. Holden" wrote:

m II wrote:

Mark S. Holden wrote:

I don't know if it's still accurate, but this web site:

http://www.aglimmerofhope.org/philanthrophy/newsweek_02_02.htm

has a quote from a February 2002 Newsweek article that says private American donors give 2.1% of our GNP to foreign aid each year. This is in addition to what our government gives. Here's a quote I like from the article:

"No nation comes even remotely close to the U.S. on these things," says Scott Walker of the Philanthropy Roundtable. "If you're in Sweden or France, it's something the government is supposed to do. If you were in England, it is the nobility. Americans
don't think it's enough to say, 'I gave at the office with taxes'."

00.14 percent. Nowhere near what you quoted.

=====================================
In 2003, Norway spent $308 per capita on foreign aid, compared to
$23.76 for the United States.

http://www.fsmitha.com/world/norway.html
==============================

Mike

I saw the .14% figure you found listed someplace as the figure for foreign charitable donations by the U.S. Government. I don't know if that includes all foreign aid, or if it's a subset of the total.

The 2.1% figure I quoted is for foreign charitable donations by private citizens. This would make the total donations from the USA 2.24% of GNP.

IIRC, I read the government of Norway gives .92% of GNP as charitable foreign aid.

I don't know what percentage their individuals give, but the article I provided the link to said "No nation comes even remotely close to the U.S. on these things,"

They were discussing this on WLS earlier today and that statement would appear to be true.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Leaving CanaDuh in the dust as usual. (Hopefully soon to be left in the fallout).