At 12:42 2003-02-03 -0500, Erik wrote:
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:25:32PM -0500, Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
> What if you compare the number with a country's GDP? Still #1 you
> think?
People need food calories, not percentages of GDP. Ask a hungry person
which is more important, what percentage of the GDP the food they were
NOT given represents of the GDP of some country, or the food they DID
get to eat from the US. Hungry people care about percentage of GDP you
think?
I was replying to the statement implying that since the US offers 60% of
aid in the world then the rest of the world doesn't care/do a thing. Countries
like Canada offer a lot of aid, but since we are not as rich as the US, it
doesn't count for as much. However, a greater percentage of my tax dollars
go to foreign aid than it would were I an American.
Jean-Louis
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