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Date Posted: 16:39:53 12/26/04 Sun
Author: Shane
Subject: Re: secularism is killing the christianity of Europe?
In reply to: Chris 's message, "Re: secularism is killing the christianity of Europe?" on 14:16:51 12/26/04 Sun

It looks like this website only looks at government spending and does not take into account private donations and charities. If you take into account private charities I think you will get a different picture. In anycase I only mention this to balance out the picture given to us by a few cranky socialists.

Chris,
On somewhat different topic you mention the social welfare benefits of Europe. But how long will Europe be able to afford these programs? The native populations of major European countries are in decline. Something has to give, either higher taxes or less benefits. Are the good times over in Europe?



>Euro's often forget that Americans are among the
>most generous in the world, giving billions of dollars
>to domestic and international charities. For all the
>Euro's talk about 'international' community, its the
>Americans who continually give.
>
>In absolute terms, this may be true. But don't forget
>that our countries in Europe are much smaller and have
>much smaller budgets. If you take the relative amount
>of e.g. the official development assistance, in
>percentage, then it looks quite different.
>
>Let me quote from rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.cbpp.org/4-25-00bud-pr.htm">www.cbpp.o
>rg/4-25-00bud-pr.htm:
>
>"The [ODC] report also examines OECD measures of
>"Official Development Assistance," which is aid
>targeted on poor countries. The OECD data indicate
>that under several measures, the United States
>provides less such aid than other industrial nations
>do. When compared to the other 20 donor nations in
>terms of the share of national resources devoted to
>development aid for poor countries in 1997-98, the
>United States provided the lowest share by far. The
>typical country contributed more than three times the
>share of national resources that the United States
>did."
>
>If you compare domestic charities, you will also get a
>wrong picture because in Europe most countries have a
>better governmental social welfare system, so less
>private donations or foundations or support from the
>industry is needed.
>
>According to the DZI, Germans donated this year 2.3
>billion dollars for social welfare (aside from the
>governmental taxes and duties), although we are in a
>phase of economical depression, many are unemployed
>and we have to support the eastern part of our country
>which was ruined by communism.
>
>I think it is a myth that Americans are more
>generous than Europeans, though I do not want to deny
>that Americans are generous.

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