Clarification/Follow-up by Mathatmacoat on 06/29/06 4:54 am:
JD

people always try to find statistics that justify their position this you have done but look at it on a GDP basis, the US can't be found, at least not in the first 20, 40,?

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_eco_aid_don_pergdp-economic-aid-donor-per-gdp

not very good for those who conssider themselves so generous

As to Koala economics, those who use coyote (scavengers, me first)economics could perhaps learn from Koala's

Clarification/Follow-up by Judgment_Day on 06/29/06 1:20 pm:
Oh Math thank you so much! Now read the facts are according to nationmaster.com .



Foreign aid, international aid or development assistance is when one country helps another country through some form of donation. Usually this refers to helping out a country that has a special need caused by poverty, underdevelopment, natural disasters, armed conflicts, etc. This article describes a type of political entity. ... A donation is to give a fund or cause or such donated gift usually for charitable reasons. ... The underdevelopment is the state of a being or of an organisation (e. ... A natural disaster is a natural event with catastrophic consequences for living things in the vicinity. ... For other uses of War, see War (disambiguation). ...


The main receivers of foreign aid are developing nations (third world countries), and the main contributors are the industrialized countries. A developing country is a country with low average income compared to the world average. ... For the Jamaican reggae band, see Third World (band). ... A developed country is a country that is technologically advanced and that enjoys a relatively high standard of living. ...


The United States is the world's largest contributor of foreign aid in absolute terms ($15.7 billion, 2003), but the smallest among developed countries as a percentage of its GDP (0.14% in 2003). However, private foreign aid donations in the United States (the majority of which consists of remittances sent home by foreign workers) are on the order of $35 billion a year (2003), dwarfing the governmental aid of not only the US but many other countries. A developed country is a country that has achieved (currently or historically) a high degree of industrialization, and which enjoys the higher standards of living which wealth and technology make possible. ... In economics, the gross domestic product (GDP) is a measure of the amount of the economic production of a particular territory in financial capital terms during a specific time period. ...

Clarification/Follow-up by Mathatmacoat on 07/02/06 4:47 am:
so what have you proven, what you have done is confirm what I said, and you can't count remittances home as foreign aid, what a cop out. This means if you sent all your foreign workers home you could afford to give more, what sort of screwed up thinking is this. Face it on a % of GDP basis, the USA is muserly in it's direct foreign aid and yet it benefrits most from economic activity. You can afford to to better both domestically and in foreign aid but you would rather provide bombs and bullets. There is no shortage of money to sspend on those.

Clarification/Follow-up by Judgment_Day on 07/02/06 11:48 pm:
so what have you proven, what you have done is confirm what I said, and you can't count remittances home as foreign aid, what a cop out.


Negavtive bench warmer. Scoreboard reads, "The United States is the world's largest contributor of foreign aid in absolute terms ($15.7 billion, 2003), but the smallest among developed countries as a percentage of its GDP (0.14% in 2003). However, private foreign aid donations in the United States (the majority of which consists of remittances sent home by foreign workers) are on the order of $35 billion a year (2003), dwarfing the governmental aid of not only the US but many other countries."


You can afford to to better both domestically and in foreign aid but you would rather provide bombs and bullets.


I agree that I would rather spend more money on peaceful aid than making bullets...if it were only so.



There is no shortage of money to sspend on those.


It's called spending now what we may not have later. Sometimes mortgaging the future is not financially prudent. So "yes" there is can be a shortage and it just may come later.