The United States was criticized last year by a United Nations official for being cheap in responding to the Asian tsunami. But here are some impressive statistics about the generosity of the American public, as noted in a Wall Street Journal editorial:
U.S. citizens gave $1.78 billion to tsunami relief, dwarfing the donations of other developed nations.
Since October, American have given $78 million toward relief following the Pakistan earthquakes.
The total value of private donations in response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita has reached an estimated $3.12 billion.
Americans donate a quarter-trillion dollars a year to churches and charities, more than the entire gross domestic product of most countries.
And, of course, the Journal’s editorial pointed out that “all of this comes on top of the $1 trillion in taxes that Americans pay each year to support government income-transfer and benefit programs.”
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The “Americans are generous” title carefully leads us to the Zionist controlled Wall Street Journal editorial page,{ Home base for Zionists Charles Krauthammer and Joe Lieberman } where the Bush appointed new World Bank’s President “Paul Wolfowitz,” a dedicated anti-American, Pro-Israeli/Neoconservative/Zionist urges Americans to double their current level foreign aid.
And who will be lining their pockets with Paul Wolfowitz’s new-found “leadership directive” in American generosity? Do I really need to say it?
As bad as this is, it doesn’t compare to NBC News last night { Jan 2 } in assuring Americans that the new rise in gasoline prices is not caused by Israel, once again threatening to attack 60% of the world oil supply delivery system in Iran, but rather the increased cost of gasoline will only be the result of a glitch in EPA regulations. This newfangled propaganda { bull-shit, pardon my French } coming out of the White House’s real president Karl Rove, is more than just a little too much.
The last Israeli-driven spike in gasoline prices { which I’ve received so much heat for referring to it as “3 dollar Jew-gas” } caused ford Explorer sales to drop 52% overnight, closing 6 Ford assembly Plants, throwing 300,000 UAW workers out of a job, along with the closing of 6 GM Plants, costing UAW workers another 300,000 jobs, not counting all of their respective suppliers jobs, and the businesses benefiting from those worker paychecks. All that borders on a direct White House sabotage to the American economy.
Notice weak Christmas sales?
Not only are they endangering our lives, Israeli lives, Arab lives, possible nuclear war, but breaking the US economy as well.
The congress needs get-off their collective asses and remove the White House cabal today. Pass a law to stop all military action, freeze Israel Bank accounts, and start flying troops home now.
Ha’aretz reports that Ariel Sharon is “tearing-up the piece of paper” with the US road-map to peace and will ask Bush to allow him to just annex the West Bank as a part of Israel { as if he hasn’t already done that }.
Is there no end to this madness?
US Democracy in action?
If Bush had bombed Aljazeera, you wouldn’t be reading this story.
The US military { Rumsfeld } sure would not be telling you.
A US air attack has killed 14 members of one family in the oil-refining town of Baiji in northern Iraq.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ADA709C4-E277-47A5-939D-DDDA2EEF0CAA.htm
US Democracy in action?
If Bush had bombed Aljazeera, you wouldn’t be reading this story.
The US military { Rumsfeld } sure would not be telling you.
A US air attack has killed 14 members of one family in the oil-refining town of Baiji in northern Iraq.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ADA709C4-E277-47A5-939D-DDDA2EEF0CAA.htm
Notice the date. Dallas Morning News
Publish Date: October 7, 2002Word Count: 646Document ID: 0F6AB78031758447Iraq: We decide
Right now there is a 10-year-old girl in Iraq, and we are deciding whether she lives or dies. She is one of many who await our decision.
Ed Friedemann
Ed: You are a true nut case. What is the subject of this thread?
The Subject brought in a reading of an editorial in the Wall Street Journal with a statement from your Paul Wolfowitz.
Fair game, as the lawyers say.
Did you like my ansewer friutcake?
Never mind Ed. Go back to your sandbox.
The Wall Street Journal editorial actually made this statement:
“Never mind that the U.S. is now spending tens of billions of dollars in what is nothing if not a massive humanitarian mission to restore civil society and democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Read it yourself. The link is above.
This mornings ” massive humanitarian mission ” was killing 14 members of an Iraqi family. But, take heart, the day isn’t over.
Americans are the most gererious on Earth! I gave 8,943,023 jobs to China, India, and Russia. Plus I gave thousands of American jobs to Meximericans who can here from Mexico to get American jobs. Jobs are better than money as a gift cause they keep on giving. Clinton wanted to give Americans better health care which would take away money from business owners. I gave american jobs to foriegners who work a lot cheaper making better business sense for american business owners. We are generous – we give them our jobs!
Dubya(W)(UU)Only Americans would be generous enough to give our jobs away!
Oh gee Ed,
Imagine that. There has never been any civilian casualties in any military operations before Iraq has there?
I suppose we should have not bombed Hitlers industrial machine to the ground because civilians died during those bombings?
Give me a break. Our military is not purposefully attacking civilians, they do everything they can to avoid it.
Nathan,Tell that to the people of Dresden!
Or tell it to the people of Fallujah after payback for the four dead mercenaries.
Burning white phosphorous is an illegal terror weapon we used on civilians. It burns through the skin down to the bone.
But that’s okay to Nathan because they were “terrorists.” He knows they were terrorists because we killed them, and we only kill terrorists.
Every dead Iraqi is a terrorist.
Solves the problem of thinking, doesn’t it?
However, the government of America is ranked among the least charitable relative to GDP compared to other industrialized nations. Also, often the aid money given following some natural disaster comes with stipulation that it can only be spent on American contractors, thus leaving local workers out of the loop, or tying up the governments from providing the best services to the affected populations.
Pin a rose opon us, for we are worthy in that we say so. The point of the charity is not the praise, but the result.
PL: Mother has a point. Someone needed to point out the useless complaining and mudslinging that appears here, primarily from the left.
Or maybe it would be better to just let it drone on, with the left offering little or nothing in the way of solutions. That would be a recipe for continuing on in the minority. On second thought then, please carry on.
I read a quote this morning:
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” – Benjamin Franklin
Somebody’s pulling posts on these threads.
They leave the unbelievably racist comments of hate-mongers and then they pull other people’s posts.
Weird criteria.