"Goomba38" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Giusi wrote:
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>> Of course they don't, and they do not out of hand hate Americans, either.
>> What they decry is arrogance, insensitivity and lack of understanding of
>> the basic laws of nature. The more people say **** 'em about dying
>> populations, the more there is to resent.
>>
>> I think some here should look up generosity indexes that tell per person
>> of population figures. You might be surprised-- or I might.
> No, it wouldn't surprise me at all. Having lived in Europe I recall
> generosity and the per capita figures are quite high <higher than the US
> in some ways> yet then I also recall areas of total lack of individual as
> well as organizational financial support (such as towards cancer
> research... nothing like the American Cancer Society there)
>
> Which dying population are "we" saying "****'em" about, again??

I think Indians were mentioned. But tomorrow it may be Africans, or Burmese
or whatever, because the issue is Americans doing something about waste and
greed because we know resources are finite. And let me point out again that
I am an American citizen.

I don't know about other countries, but in Italy various things are funded
all the time with a combination of TV appeals, phone vote charges given to
charity, telethons, sales of seasonal things in the piazze, church
collections, and besides that Italians pay high taxes to fund relief for
people inside and outside Italy. If you fall off a curb and break your
ankle, your emergency care will be free, paid for by Italians. Mobile
hospitals get airlifted in instantly when there are world disasters.

I have hundreds of opportunities to give in small ways all the time here.
When it is 50 centesimi you hardly notice it.