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Originally Posted by Seaver
Hammer, did you even READ that article? They pick and chose which aids can count and by how much.
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Yeah, they actually try to look at the quality of the aid given. How revolutionary.
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They didnt count our aid to Russia, to Israel, to Pakistan (how many hundred million dont count all of a sudden from the earthquake relief?), etc.
It's also amazing that those countries that pay a higher % are the exact same ones who get military technology through NATO paid by us.
Easy to make us look stingy when you dont count 90% of our aid, or the aid we give to the "generous" countries above us on the list.
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This is why I included the second link. Even when including all the corporate welfare congress dishes out, the U.S. government still only gives .16 percent of GDP, far less then the agreed upon target of .7 percent promised by rich countries at the earth summit in 1992.