IT'S OFFICIAL--RICH U.S. ARE PROVEN CHEAPSKATES IN GIVING

Big tsunami donors rank poorly in generosity
24 Jun 2005 13:18:00 GMT
Source: REUTERS

In terms of aid dollars alone, the United States is by far the biggest tsunami donor with a total $2.34 billion of government and private pledges -- almost double Germany's $1.25 billion. Britain was the third-largest donor, followed by Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada and Norway.

And then they follow it up with this one

NORWEGIANS GIVE MORE

But put the aid on a per-capita basis and you get a different "generosity ranking". By this measure, Norwegians gave by far the most, with combined governmental and private donations amounting to $59 per head -- seven times more than Americans and 10 times more than Japanese.

Even that doesn't tell the full story. Experts say you must consider the "quality" of aid to assess real generosity. Is it going where it's needed or simply serving the donor's interests?

The report doesn't tell us that lots of vehicles never left the docks because of corruption at local levels, that governments taxed the aid when it arrived, and other Muslim countries refused any "tainted" aid. Sources for this shit include the International Red Cross, Amnesty International, and the always balanced Reuters. And of course they leave out the hundred or so millions spent by our military starting from day one of the disaster. But the U.S. Military are fascist war criminals, per the same sources plus the Liberal U.S. media.