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Old 02-04-2009, 03:25 PM   #490
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Originally Posted by Xenophon View Post
To take this observation a bit farther, the blog post (with numbers) that was linked to earlier in this thread was considering government foreign aid. But Americans give far more charity to other countries as private individuals than the sum total of the U.S. Gov't's foreign aid budget. (Reference missing. I had one, but I've misplaced it.) The charity given as private individuals may be what prior posters were talking about.
Ah, my mistake. I actually looked for a reference that put government and private together and compared with respect to countries. I think the result will be similar.
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