Cheap Americans

The next time you hear some ignorant Euro-scumbag talking shit about how Americans don't give enough money to the third world, you might want to tell them to blow it out their collective asses.

PRIVATE American citizens donated almost 15 times more to the developing world than their European counterparts, research reveals this weekend ahead of the G8 summit. Private US donors also handed over far more aid than the federal government in Washington, revealing that America is much more generous to Africa and poor countries than is claimed by the Make Poverty History and Live 8 campaigns.

The world wears symbolic white bracelets to help Africa's poor, Americans give money. Plain and simple.

Church collections, philanthropists and company-giving amounted to $22bn a year, according to a study by the Hudson Institute think-tank, easily more than the $16.3bn in overseas development sent by the US government. American churches, synagogues and mosques alone gave $7.5bn in 2003 - a figure which exceeds the government totals for France ($7.2bn) and Britain ($6.3bn) - according to numbers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development which deal a blow to those who claim moral superiority over the US on aid.

It's best to read the whole article because it's chock full of numbers and figures, but the bottom line is the American Gov't gives more in foreign aid than nearly all of Europe, and the American public is more generous than any country in the world . Chew on that ya rat bastards.

We are the world America is the World

The Grouchy Old Cripple tipped me off to that pearl.