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Damn those selfish Americans:

WFP internal documents show that the major oil producing nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) gives almost nothing to the food organization, even as skyrocketing oil prices and swollen oil revenues contribute to the very crisis that the U.N. claims could soon add 100 million more people to the world’s starving masses.

The overwhelming bulk of the burden in feeding the world’s starving poor remains with the United States and a small group of other predominately Western nations, a situation that the WFP has done little so far to change, even as it has asked for another $775 million in donations to ease the crisis.

Donor listings on WFP’s website show that this year, as in every year since 1999, the U.S. is far and away the biggest aid provider to WFP. Since 2001, U.S. donations to the food agency have averaged more than $1.16 billion annually — or more than five times as much as the next biggest donor, the European Commission.

A note to all those who continually moan and wail about how little the mean ol’, selfish, undeserving U.S.A. does to help the poor of the world: Re-read the above and then just.....shut up.

Oh, and, P.S.......well. nevermind. I was going to say something about the self interested, vampire-like OPEC sucking the world’s wealth by hyper-inflating their oil prices and then wallowing in huge, greasy piles of cash while people around the world, often their own citizens, go hungry. But that sounds too liberal, so I won’t go there.

So I’ll just tell you again to read the above....and just shut up.