Re: [ga] A Monroe Doctrine for the Internet

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick_Hauptman@xxxxxxx the address you want me to use for further emails to you?
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  From: RBHauptman@xxxxxxx 
  To: andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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  Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:28 AM
  Subject: Re: [ga] A Monroe Doctrine for the Internet


  Kidsearch, are you totally nuts?  You disappear from this list and then return to tell us how wonderful the US is?  christ, go away, and get a friggen life will ya.  You are firggen nuts


  andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

    On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:15 AM, kidsearch wrote:

    > So, I gather that you can give a list of countries that have given  
    > more aid to 3rd world countries than the USA has.

    Japan, but that's only if you look at the total dollar figure. If you  
    take it on e per-capita basis or % of GDP, the USA is well down the  
    list. Quoting http://www.realityofaid.org/roareport.php? 
    table=roa2002&id=21

    "Total aid from all 22 DAC donor countries in 2000 was US$53.7  
    billion, down 0.4% in real terms from 1999. Japan and the USA were  
    the largest donors in cash terms, with Germany the UK and France also  
    giving from US$4 billion to just over US$5 billion. (See Graph 16).

    While donors from G7 countries with large economies show up towards  
    the top of the list of aid donors in terms of volume, their  
    performance looks much worse when aid given is measured as a share of  
    donor GNI. (See Graph 17). Only five donors â Denmark, Netherlands,  
    Sweden, Norway and Luxembourg â meet the UN 0.7% target for aid as a  
    share of national income, established in 1970.

    Countries such as the United States and Italy give a pitiful share of  
    their wealth in aid. Most G7 donors have allowed their aid to decline  
    as a share of their growing wealth over the last ten years. Even as  
    the Financing for Development Summit approached, G7 donors allowed  
    their aid to fall by 3% in real terms between 1999 and the latest  
    available figures covering the year 2000. On average the G7  
    countries, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the USA  
    now give just 0.19% of GNI in aid â even lower than their 0.21%  
    figure for 1999."

    Is our children learning?

    > Have to ask that question because as much fun as some people have  
    > bashing the USA, it is the very first country they call on for help  
    > when they are attacked or have a problem too big for them to handle.
    >

    Well, if you want to lay  claim to be the "greatest nation in the  
    world" I'm afraid you're going to have to put up or shut up.