Just an opinion wrote :
>>I'll give you $11T reasons why any nation that forsakes the U.S.
>>is doomed to destruction.
>
>
> A future address by the US President:
>
> My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of Iraq regime has
> been completed. Since congress does not want to spend any more money on
> this war, our mission in Iraq is officially complete. This morning I
> gave the order for a total removal of all American forces from Iraq.
> This action will be complete within 30 days. It is now to begin the
> reckoning.
>
> Before me, I have two lists. One list contains the names of countries
> which have stood by our side during the Iraq conflict. This list is
> short. The United Kingdom, Spain, Bulgaria, Australia, and Poland are
> some of the countries listed there.
>
> The other list contains everyone not on the first list. Most of the
> world's nations are on that list. My press secretary will be
> distributing copies of both lists later this evening.
>
> Let me start by saying that effective immediately, foreign aid to those
> nations on List 2 ceases mmediately and indefinitely. The money saved
> during the first year alone will pretty much pay for the costs of the
> Iraqi war.
>
> The American people are no longer going to pour money into third world
> hell-holes and watch those government leaders grow fat on corruption.
>
> Need help with a famine? Wrestling with an epidemic? Call France.
>
>
From official OECD website, Official Development Assistance budget in %
of GDP in 2004:
Norway: 0.87
France: 0.42
United Kingdom: 0.36
United States of America: 0.16
Italy: 0.15
more on this ?
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp#ForeignAidNumbersinChartsandGraphs
Thanks God (who - everybody knows it - blesses America), generosity
arises in USA from the individuals, and my answer only adresses official
aid.
Dominique |