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.


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