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Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks
That's not the point here... that's not the question...
I'm not sure if it "matters"... but... it says something about the people and the country....
In the first list it shows America as a loving caring nation that gives a lot of money. In the second list there you have the nuance...
Americans pay less aid then people in bankrupt countries like portugal and iceland...
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Actually, what both lists fail to show is the amounts of private overseas charity that is given VOLUNTARILY by people, as apposed to taken from them in taxes and then given by their governments.... and in that, the average person in the US gives 9 TIMES MORE than the average European....
Note that this is a totally different set of figures from which GOVERNMENTS take their people's money from them by force and then give it away, in that list the US doesn't rank very high as struggle4bucks points out....
This is instead the money that people actually give freely on their own.
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" No developed country approaches American giving. For example, in 1995 (the most recent year for which data are available), Americans gave, per capita, three and a half times as much to causes and charities as the French, seven times as much as the Germans, and 14 times as much as the Italians. Similarly, in 1998, Americans were 15 percent more likely to volunteer their time than the Dutch, 21 percent more likely than the Swiss, and 32 percent more likely than the Germans. These differences are not attributable to demographic characteristics such as education, income, age, sex, or marital status. On the contrary, if we look at two people who are identical in all these ways except that one is European and the other American, the probability is still far lower that the European will volunteer than the American."
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