How much foreign aid does America hand out annually ??
 

There's been a bit of a stink kicked up the past few days in the UK over our own polices. And of course, after an MP described our money being sent to "Bongo bongo land".

Vid here:

http://news.sky.com/story/1125426/bo...ey-bloom-sorry

:warning

It's normally a scam to pay it to their own companies, the ones who donated to the politicians...an excuse for dirty fingers to enter the tax pot.

bongo bongo land :1orglaugh

I don't know the exact figure but I have heard several times over the years from various sources that it's a shitload.

United States ? $30.46 billion
United Kingdom ? $13.66 billion
Germany ? $13.11 billion
France ? $12.00 billion
Japan ? $10.49 billion
Canada ? $5.68 billion
Netherlands ? $5.52 billion
Australia ? $5.44 billion
Sweden ? $5.24 billion
Norway ? $4.75 billion
Switzerland ? $3.02 billion
Denmark ? $2.72 billion
Italy ? $2.64 billion
Belgium ? $2.30 billion
Spain ? $1.95 billion
South Korea ? $1.55 billion
Finland ? $1.32 billion
Austria ? $1.11 billion
Ireland ? $0.81 billion
Portugal ? $0.57 billion
New Zealand ? $0.46 billion
Luxembourg ? $0.43 billion
Greece ? $0.32 billion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...evelopment_aid

Curious, where's Russia on that list?

For that matter where is Iran, N Korea, Saudi Arabia, or any country from S America for that matter?

yes, very curious.

We make it policy to ensure the recipient country hates us before cutting the check. Heaven forbid someone appreciates us.

China is missing also.

We borrow money from China to give to countries that hate us so we can carry the debt and a lower standard of living. I must be too stupid to understand.

Giving = shaming

Why not the other list...

you know... "by the amount of money they give as a percentage of their gross national income"...

looks different:

1. Luxembourg ? 1.00%
2. Sweden ? 0.99%
3. Norway ? 0.93%
4. Denmark ? 0.84%
5. Netherlands ? 0.71%
6. United Kingdom ? 0.56%
7. Finland ? 0.53%
8. Ireland ? 0.48%
9. Belgium ? 0.47%
10. France- 0.45%
11. Switzerland ? 0.45%
12. Germany ? 0.38%
13. Australia ? 0.36%
14. Canada ? 0.32%
15. Austria ? 0.28%
16. New Zealand ? 0.28%
17. Portugal ? 0.27%
18. Iceland ? 0.22%
19. United States ? 0.19%
20. Japan ? 0.17%
21. Spain ? 0.15%
22. South Korea ? 0.14%
23. Italy ? 0.13%
24. Greece ? 0.13%

If there were all Luxembourgers living in the U.S. the United States would give 150billion aid... Now only 30 billion

Britain's foreign aid has fallen into hands of al-Qaeda, DfiD admits

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...iD-admits.html

Would you rather have 1% of the income of a guy making $10 million a year or .20% of a guy making a billion a year? Percentages don't matter.

Why do we give aid to anyone?

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...

What British aid??? oh you mean the 0.56% of gross national income?

some should get AIDS!

China is on the other list :1orglaugh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...n_aid_received

British Foreign Aid is to bribe and to pay to our own companies, it needs to be stopped :2 cents:

Bribes and Pay-2-Self Tax Grabs, it's almost never for the right reason :2 cents:

We borrow money from them then give them free aid.

Our infrastructure is falling apart across the nation - yet Canada gives away $5.6 billion in foreign aid to countries that show their appreciation by sending us their worthless refugee immigrants - adding a greater burden to our welfare and healthcare programs.

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.

.:2 cents:


" 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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Saudis give loads of money.

Regardless of how it looks that money kept at home would be better used.

lol, anything to try to make america look bad.


just another gfyer with a sad outlook on life spewing usa bs.