Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:19:38PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> 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
I don't know about the world's needy, but I do remember (well,
perhaps not too accurately, perhaps :)) reading some years ago
that 48 per cent of what was called "US foreign aid" was accounted
for by what had to be paid to Israel and Egypt to keep them from
each other's throats.
> 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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