Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alex Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: OT: [ was re: Really?] Foreign aid Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 17:30:03 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <1239a88b-a574-401b-9454-50ac7e000049@googlegroups.com> <589c77b9.95886950@news.eternal-september.org> <589c8956.100395863@news.eternal-september.org> <87r337uoal.fsf@nightsong.com> <589d1217.135405467@news.eternal-september.org> <589de949.190495488@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 17:28:15 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8b633b83d52c297f4016426facd6a8df"; logging-data="3890"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/rba69/JQDQja0plu+/BN+NnvIEzlHA84=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 In-Reply-To: <589de949.190495488@news.eternal-september.org> Cancel-Lock: sha1:Aul9jmiWowHviP1rYOpgYuCcNuA= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:54771 On 2/10/2017 16:29, Stephen Pelc wrote: >> Anyway, England gets a lot of foreign aid from America --- that >> should be a suitable source of funding for pretty much anything. > Do tell me the details. On second thoughts, please do not. The US spends 0.19 percent of GDP on foreign aid; the UK spends 0.71 percent. Amazingly, the median %age that US citizens believe they are giving away in foreign aid is 25%. If Hugh is typical of his fellows, then he overestimates his generosity by a truly gobsmacking factor of 100. https://www.interaction.org/document/american-public-overestimates-us-foreign-aid -- Alex