Comments on: Americans are ‘Cheapskates’ over Lack of Foreign Aid Spending? http://www.bloggernews.net/16518 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:21:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: alprime2003 http://www.bloggernews.net/16518#comment-22048 alprime2003 Wed, 09 May 2007 06:07:19 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16518#comment-22048 By the way, your link to the Charities Aid Foundations is to its front index page, which provides no navigation to their reports, if any are available. One must search via Google or some other engine to find a copy of the CAF report elsewhere. In other words, that link looks like it may lead to information to support your argument, but it does not. That's laziness on your part, and possibly disingenuous. Further, you fail to note that the prime focus of the CAF report is on national/GNP giving (UK vs US, for instance) and doesn't break down charitable giving at the per capita, individual level, which is what Ms Brooks was talking about. Further, the CAF report includes donations to religious/NGOs, who mainly use their funds for religious proselytizing, rather than relief work. Many reports have been done which show that on a per capita basis, Americans give about .014 cents (!!) per year. That's 14 mills. In other words, the vast majority of Americans don't give squat, putting them last in the world, while the good citizens of Saudi Arabia give $3-4US. The reports are out there, I challenge you to go find them; in other words, do some real homework before you attempt to refute an argument which is common knowledge and supported by heavy documentation. By the way, your link to the Charities Aid Foundations is to its front index page, which provides no navigation to their reports, if any are available. One must search via Google or some other engine to find a copy of the CAF report elsewhere. In other words, that link looks like it may lead to information to support your argument, but it does not. That’s laziness on your part, and possibly disingenuous.

Further, you fail to note that the prime focus of the CAF report is on national/GNP giving (UK vs US, for instance) and doesn’t break down charitable giving at the per capita, individual level, which is what Ms Brooks was talking about. Further, the CAF report includes donations to religious/NGOs, who mainly use their funds for religious proselytizing, rather than relief work.

Many reports have been done which show that on a per capita basis, Americans give about .014 cents (!!) per year. That’s 14 mills. In other words, the vast majority of Americans don’t give squat, putting them last in the world, while the good citizens of Saudi Arabia give $3-4US. The reports are out there, I challenge you to go find them; in other words, do some real homework before you attempt to refute an argument which is common knowledge and supported by heavy documentation.

]]> By: alprime2003 http://www.bloggernews.net/16518#comment-22043 alprime2003 Wed, 09 May 2007 05:45:58 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16518#comment-22043 "Brooks shows herself to have far more in common with Europeans than she does her fellow citizens in her thought processes and her linking of charitable generosity to government spending is unAmerican. "… but it IS oh, so liberal." I invite you to diagram the above 1st sentence. Pay particular attention to the verbs. You do know what a verb is, I assume? Then please explain the 2nd sentence in relation to the first. You make no sense. Your argument is incoherent. How can I believe anything else you might try to argue? In future, please spare us. Just don't bother. Stop it. “Brooks shows herself to have far more in common with Europeans than she does her fellow citizens in her thought processes and her linking of charitable generosity to government spending is unAmerican.

“… but it IS oh, so liberal.”

I invite you to diagram the above 1st sentence. Pay particular attention to the verbs. You do know what a verb is, I assume? Then please explain the 2nd sentence in relation to the first.

You make no sense. Your argument is incoherent. How can I believe anything else you might try to argue?

In future, please spare us. Just don’t bother. Stop it.

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