Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Aid by country

As of tonight, the biggest donor is Spain, at $37 million. The US is still at $35 million. (My dear father-in-law asserts that the initial US offer was $100K, but I haven't found that online yet.)

Spain's GDP is less than one-twelfth that of the US.

To put it another way -- which makes the US look less bad, since it's a much wealthier country -- Spain is giving $0.85 per resident. The US is giving $0.11 per resident. (Oh, but we're planning to give much more, says our chief eggzeggudive who couldn't be bothered to stop lounging in Crawford to speak on the matter until today, four days after the disaster.)

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