Bush Responds To Stingy Comment

  •  December 30, 2004

WASHINGTON – President Bush defended American generosity Wednesday, even as his administration figures out how to pay for more help beyond the $35 million it has already promised to tsunami victims in Asia.
In his first remarks since the weekend disaster that so far has killed more than 76,000, Bush –

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  • http://Array Mark

    While not wishing to become too deeply involved in a ‘who is meaner than who’ debate (could probably get more than a little boring) I think it is important that, in assessing the generosity of each nation, comparisons should be made on the relative basis of the GDP of each nation, rather than on the brute figure donated (i.e. divide amount given by GDP). This would give a more accurate indication of ‘stinginess’/generosity.

  • Mark

    Rob –
    I'm not getting into any debates here (certainly not defending France, which objectively seems to be pretty miserly) – just pointing out the best way of measuring things.

    Two other things – I see you've passed 400,000 (congratulations), and I love your gravatar (what happened to that show? It just seemed to disappear in this country)

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    America's GDP: $10.99 trillion.

    France's GDP: $1.661 trillion

    America's donation of $35 million divided by the GDP equals 0.0032.

    France's donation of $135,000 divided by the GDP equals 0.0000812.

    France is pretty stingy by that measurement.

    And as far as this debate being boring, I wouldn't be bringing it up were my country and my President not being accused of being "stingy" and uncaring despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    I'm not getting into any debates here (certainly not defending France, which objectively seems to be pretty miserly) – just pointing out the best way of measuring things.

    I know Mark. I was just trying to point out that I wasn't writing this stuff just for the sake of starting a frivilous argument.

    I see you've passed 400,000 (congratulations)

    Thanks. It still amazes me that people actually come here to read this stuff.

    I love your gravatar (what happened to that show? It just seemed to disappear in this country)

    Its still on the air here, though I don't think it ever became as popular as was expected. I'm not much of a TV watcher, but I try to catch it when its on. It never fails to crack me up.

    And the Gravatars are very cool. You should get one.

  • likwidshoe

    Mark suggests, "I think it is important that, in assessing the generosity of each nation, comparisons should be made on the relative basis of the GDP of each nation, rather than on the brute figure donated (i.e. divide amount given by GDP)."

    How about measuring it according to population? America is around 5 % of the world. Just five. We are so rich because we are free (largely) to act on our resources.

    This would give a more accurate indication of ’stinginess’/generosity.

    Just measure it by population. America far outclasses almost all other nations combined. *And there's no reason that a lot of other countries couldn't be near or just as wealthy.

  • Mark

    Unsure about that, likwidshoe.

    For example, let's take sub-Saharan Africa as a whole (roughly the same number of inhabitants as America) – by your way of calculation, the citizens here should give, in total, precisely the same amount as America in order to be equally generous.

    I don't think that makes a lot of sense.

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  • Charlie

    I would like a straight answer to my question how much money was donated to 2004 boxing day tsunami. And how many people offered assistance by helping in ingeries etc. I would really appriciate an answer to this email. Many thanks for your time. Charlie

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