Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cecil Bayona Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: OT: [ was re: Really?] Foreign aid Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 12:57:30 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 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=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:55:40 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dc601da0e3f88815b2228bed39af608d"; logging-data="25415"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18CQ3RqCjoBjAoYKuGjWbY5" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:OGeju1et3YhGaIGhGvOTMgBHDhA= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:54779 On 2/10/2017 12:07 PM, Alex wrote: > On 2/10/2017 18:04, Cecil Bayona wrote: >> On 2/10/2017 11:55 AM, Alex wrote: >>> On 2/10/2017 17:46, Cecil Bayona wrote: >>>> On 2/10/2017 11:30 AM, Alex wrote: >>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> .19% of a hell of a lot bigger pie. Still both governments sometimes >>>> gives free handouts where it's not deserved. >>>> >>> >>> Not that much bigger. The absolute numbers are US $32.53bn (2014 >>> figures) vs UK £12.2bn (2015 numbers or around $15.23bn at current >>> exchange rates). >>> >> I would like to have the difference. >> > > Do you deserve a free handout? > More than some of the persons that get it and don't deserve it at all. That figure does not count I believe all the military aid give to countries, the US spent about 1 trillion dollars in Iraq an not all on blowing things up. -- Cecil - k5nwa