Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC
Incoming from Jan Minar:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:01:17PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> > Here's another view of that data:
>
> What about this one?:
>
> | Country Aid(Billions) People(Millions) Dollars/Person
> | Australia 1 19.7 50.76
> | Austria 0.5 8.1 61.73
> | Belgium 1.1 10.2 107.84
> | Canada 2 32.2 62.11
> | Denmark 1.6 5.3 301.89
> | Finland 0.5 5.1 98.04
> | France 5.2 60.1 86.52
> | Germany 5.4 82.3 65.61
> | Greece 0.3 10.6 28.30
> | Ireland 0.4 3.9 102.56
> | Italy 2.3 57.9 39.72
> | Japan 9.2 127.2 72.33
> | Luxembourg 0.1 0.4 250.00
> | Netherlands 3.4 16.1 211.18
> | New Zealand 0.1 3.9 25.64
> | Norway 1.7 4.5 377.78
> | Portugal 0.3 10.1 29.70
> | Spain 1.6 40.2 39.80
> | Sweden 1.8 8.8 204.55
> | Switzerland 0.9 7.3 123.29
> | U K 4.7 60 78.33
> | USA 12.9 290.3 44.44
>
> As any person capable of reading can see, The US *are* the worst!
Lies, damn lies, ...
I think the world's needy are going to be far happier with the US 12.9
billion than they are going to be with Canada's paltry 2.0 billion.
Or would you prefer they had Norway's _massive_ (per Capita)
contribution of only 1.7 billion?
The US does lots of stupid (and just plain wrong) things. No-one
should be criticizing them on this though. Why is it the world's
other superpowers (Russia/CIS, PRC) don't even show up on this list?
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