BonnieBlueFlag has had about enough from Bill Clinton -- "You Bring the Tar, I'll Pluck the Chicken"
By BonnieBlueFlag
On Thursday, June 30th, Bill Clinton did a Radio interview for the BBC, during which he went to great lengths to criticize the American people, for their lack of charity for international assistance.
Bill Clinton said, "They think we give about 3% of GDP. They think we give 10-15% of the budget. They think we ought to give about 5%."
"We don't give anywhere near that. We don't give anywhere near 3%, but they think we do.'
. . ."I also think the American people might change the attitude of the American government on this. President Bush and the Republicans . . . "
". . . when I was president, 100 members of the new Republican Congress after the 94 election did not have passports.'
"They thought all foreign aid was wasted. . .'
"By the time I left, we had dramatic consensus across parties for the massive debt relief we did for the Millennium in 2000.'
Now 27 countries have qualified. . . (for debt relief.
Is there any wonder that the people of Europe and Asia think so poorly of the Americans? The elites of this country cannot wait to get there, so they can tell any reporter, columnist, or man in the street, how stingy, mean, and puritanical the Americans are!
I don't have a clue as to what percentage of the GDP is handed over to foreign governments and/or leaders, charities, or used for the purposes of buying peace around the world.
I only know that the United States is the most generous country in the world, as well as the most put upon, when it comes to the amount of U.S. currency that leaves our borders.
Clinton thinks we should continue to hand over "CASH" to people like Arafat, and third world dictators. Just how many millions of dollars did Arafat amass in French banks before he died? Money that was meant to go for the aid of his people.
Are we supposed to send Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, "CASH" to feed his starving people? People who are starving, because Mugabe threatened to kill any white person that did not get off their land, "crop producing farm" land that now lays fallow.
I guess the millions of dollars being sent back to Mexico, Central and South America by illegal aliens, shouldn't count, even though it greatly diminishes our own economy.
Oh, and we shouldn't include all the free health care for the same illegals, while some of our own can no longer afford to have health insurance.
Does anyone know how much money was collected from Americans in private donations for tsunami relief? I do know, that all of the well known legitimate charities told us to stop sending money, because they had no way of dealing with the extremely large amounts they received.
I wonder how much it cost the United States, to make our Navy and their ships available for months for water purification, helicopter rescue and food distribution, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. Civilian volunteers from everywhere, moved onto the ships for shelter, food and facilities. Who did we bill for reimbursement?
Imagine, 100 new member of the 1994 Congress didn't have passports! I'm sure they got them immediately, so they could go on the free trips all over the world. Trips paid for by our tax dollars, or special interest groups. I'm willing to bet that Clinton has paid pennies on the total cost of his travels.
If I hear one more person slam the Americans for not having passports, I'm going to stake him/her to a fire ant mound in the noon day sun. The implication of course is that we are not worldly, that we are naive about how other people live.
If we lived in Europe, Asia, etc., we would have to have a passport to cross the road to buy a loaf of bread. We do not need passports to travel the entire length and breadth of the United States. They need passports to come to the U.S., while most of us would prefer to see America first.
I wonder how many Hollywood, New York and Washington, DC elites, have seen Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park, The Grand Canyon in Arizona, Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania, Monticello in Virginia, The Hermitage in Tennessee, Fulton, Missouri, where Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain" speech, or the world's largest ball of twine in Darwin, Minnesota?
Thank you Mr. President, it's nice to know what you think of us, and that you would travel the world to slander the country and the people, who have made you a wealthy celebrity.
Happy Fourth of July to you too!
Written by: BonnieBlueFlag
posted by Aussiegirl @ 9:15 PM
3 Comments:
Actually, he said the opposite of what you inferred. You inferred that he was condemning the US public for being stingy. He was saying that the US public is more generous than the behavior of the US government implies.
Surveys of the US population repeatedly show that Americans think we give too much in foreign aid, but the mean estimate of what would be about right is far greater than what what we do, in fact, give. Q.E.D., Americans would favor more foreign aid if they knw what the real amount was (>0.1% of GDP).
BTW, the USA is not remotely the most generous nation on earth by any measure. Absolute donations abroad? Japan has us beat. Donotions per capita? Nearly all OECD countries have us beat there. Donations as a share of GDP? Nearly all nations, OECD or not, have us beat there. This fact is well known abroad, so Pres. Clinton was defending the American people from the deduction that we are stingy.
No wonder you hate him so much. You can't read.
How about some documentation on some of your "facts"? Like the fact that Japan gives more in absolute dollars. How is that calculated exactly? And what would be "just about right"? and in whose estimation? Furthermore, the United States maintains a large military which always seems to be called on to settle those pesky European disputes, like the one in the Balkans a few years ago. And those same military ships were the first ones on hand to lend a hand in real aid to the tsunami victims, while the UN sat around and formed a commission to study the problem. As Mugabe currently evicts tens of thousands of people into the street and razes their homes with bulldozers, the UN is still to send a "special envoy" -- for all the good that will do. Where are the blue helmets to stop this crime? Where is the African Union which refused to lift a finger to stop this dispossession of the poor in Africa? America has appealed to the UN and the AU -- with no luck. What about that?
And dont' give me this thing about GDP -- what is the GDP of Norway -- about a few hundred million? Give me a break.
Tim Birdnow said:
Oh, please, give us all a break Pcubed! It`s easy for Japan to spend more than the United States in terms of aid-they don`t spend a dime on national defense! It`s easy to look down your nose at America while taking our CHARITABLE military aid. We protect Europe, Japan, S. Korea, etc. with American military might (paid for with American dollars.)Perhaps you missed this:Since 1992, Japan had been the largest donor of aid, in terms of raw dollars. That was until 2001 when the United States reclaimed that position, a year that also saw Japan's amount of aid drop by nearly 4 billion dollars (as tables and charts below will also show). The source is the OECD. I notice that American aid fell under none-other than BIll ClINTON. (Gee, what a surprise.)Perhaps you should be the one to learn to read.
Tim Birdnow
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