Who Said This?

Americans’ greatest moral failure in my lifetime [hint: since the 1960s] has been that we still don’t abide by that basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.

Really? Okay.

UPDATE:The audacity of...Audacity.

COUNTRY…………….PER CAP. GIVING [Ed note: link changed, source less verifiable]

Spain……………………..122
Belgium……………………120
U.K……………………….117
Netherlands………………..110
Ireland……………………100
France……………………..74
Finland…………………….70
Austria…………………….50
Germany…………………….39
Hungary…………………….32
Slovakia……………………25
Czech Republic………………25
Romania……………………..5

U.S……………………….278

Measured in Euros for the year 2003. The report was produced by Spain.

Comments

[Tully]

All talk, no walk. :-)

But we already knew that, didn't we?

[Emerson]

Hey, these other countries actively try to share the misery via socialism, so you can't hold them to any capitalistic standard like charity giving. The state gives what people need and the people only take what they need.

[me]

This is classic. Income is not the same as quality of life. You left out so many important factors. Cost and quality of health care, literacy rates, social mobility, childhood mortality, life expectancy, cost of education, etc. You might also want to add which nation borrowed overwhelmingly the most money from Communist China to keep it's "free market" credit card economy afloat, which nation bailed out its reckless hedge fund investors recently or in which nation did only 1/3 corporations pay income tax. Sounds a lot like socialism.

Tully: I find that statement laughable coming from you Miss Thing.

[DonS]

Me is right. Look at how awful US healthcare is. What with Canadian sociliast politicians flying to the US for healthcare, and all that.

[IronMike]

I can't get to the pdf...anyone else have this trouble?

[Iron Tusk]

Done patting yourselves on the back?

[me]

DonS, the health care system in the US is the finest in the world if you can afford it. Unfortunately the overwhelming majority of Americans can't. The version of health care that most Americans get ranks at the bottom compared to the other industrialized countries.