Are the numbers correct in Burma?

[Beirut]

When your little _________ country does 1/100 the amount of aid and assistance my country does, then your criticism will have any meaning to me.

Let the meaningfullness roll.


National giving as a percent of GDP (2005)
According to the Charities Aid Foundation [1],

1. United States - 1.67%
2. United Kingdom - .73%
3. Canada - .72%
4. Australia - .69%
5. South Africa - .64%
6. Ireland - .47%
7. Netherlands - .45%
8. Singapore - .29%
9. New Zealand - .29%
10. Turkey - .23%
11. Germany - .22%
12. France - .14%

[edit] Private donations


Public donations (2006)
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development[3],

1. United States - $22.739 billion
2. United Kingdom - $12.607 billion
3. Japan - $11.608 billion
4. France - $10.448 billion
5. Germany - $10.351 billion
6. Netherlands - $5.452 billion
7. Sweden - $3.962 billion
8. Spain - $3.801 billion
9. Canada - $3.731 billion
10. Italy - $3.672 billion
11. Norway - $2.946 billion
12. Denmark - $2.234 billion
13. Australia - $2.128 billion
14. Belgium - $1.968 billion
15. Switzerland - $1.647 billion
16. Austria - $1.513 billion
17. Ireland - $997 million
18. Finland - $826 million
19. Portugal - $391 million
20. Greece - $384 million
21. Luxembourg - $291 million
22. New Zealand - $257 million

[Crazed Rabbit]

HahahahaHAhahaha!

Oh man, Beirut, that's hilarious. You copied that from Wiki and cut the stat they had for private giving from the US.

Because, of course, that number you snipped out defeats your whole post, because Americans gave $295,000,000,000, or 295 billion dollars, to charity in 2006.

The Irish? Not so much - less than ~800 million in 2005 (at the current high Euro value against the dollar).

So they have still quite a ways to go to give 1/100 as much as Americans do.


CR

[Beirut]

Too bad. Don't care. My good intentions trump your negatorial triumphalism.

God Save Ireland!

[Rhyfelwyr]

I'm not sure forcing aid upon the people would be the best option. Unfortunately, the nationalist government would no doubt whip up some patriotism and soon there would be fighting over the aid etc. And there's not many better places for a long, drawn out, guerilla-style civil war.

Although IIRC there are a lot of quite strictly oppressed ethnic minorities in Burma who would be quite happy to be liberated.

[Tribesman]

When your little craphole country does 1/100 the amount of aid and assistance my country does, then your criticism will have any meaning to me.

hey dave , when my little craphole of a country supports genocidal maniacs , overthrows democracies and acts like the biggest arse in the "civilised" world then perhaps you can make a comment that has any meaning to anyone regarding the subject .

But besides that which is most obvious to anyone apart from the most brain dead muppet ,the post which you attempted to responded to yet studiously try to avoid....BTW didn't your country get widely criticised for its poor performance at disaster response and didn't it refuse aid and assistance from some countries .
hmmmmm...true or false ?
does the truth hurt ?
does it diminish your errrr....."arguement"
How about the other bit of the post you took offence at ., you know the poor big victim crap.....Actually Dave I think many in the world only call them that when it is done by hypocrits who do so over a pile of obvious lies and to top it all off make a complete balls of it , but hey don't let little things like that put you out of victim mode eh .
...any worthwhile response ....or is the truth too painful for your flag wrapped patriotic persona to accept ?

Oh BTW Rabbit , you may crow about those figures that are based on "charitable" donations obtained from tax returns and claims for deductions , but you clearly misunderstand the Irish approach to tax returns so your figures mean bugger all
Though of course it would be far easier to just point out that you cannot do mathematics at all Rabbit...unless of corse you thought that 1:100 of 273 million people can have some strange relation to the same sum of 1:100 from 273 million when it is only 4 million people . But hey keep on counting every penny in the church plate for deduction purposes , I know it makes you feel better about yourself

[Crazed Rabbit]

Though of course it would be far easier to just point out that you cannot do mathematics at all Rabbit...unless of corse you thought that 1:100 of 273 million people can have some strange relation to the same sum of 1:100 from 273 million when it is only 4 million people . But hey keep on counting every penny in the church plate for deduction purposes , I know it makes you feel better about yourself

I've never written off Church offerings as deductions. And I don't know the custom in Ireland, or more importantly perhaps, your customs, but here we don't put pennies in the collection plates.

And yes, the large population difference is somewhat the point.

Too bad. Don't care. My good intentions trump your negatorial triumphalism.

Reminds me of biofuel and food riots.

CR