What is your countries' priorities?

The disaster in Myanmar is in the news lately. Of particular astonishment is the Military Government’s handling of the food aid the world is offering. I saw the story on the news this morning and noticed a graphic showing the donations to the World Food Program by countries.

I decided to visit the World Food Program website a review the data. Care to guess which evil, oppressive country tops the donor list? Did you guess the ‘Big Satan’?

Contributions to WFP in 2008 (in US$) as of 4 May

1	USA	362,728,240
2	Canada	103,770,270
3	United Nations	84,446,788
4	Japan	69,653,009
5	Sweden	61,290,322
6	Netherlands	54,231,878
7	Denmark	50,479,875
8	Italy	41,544,151
9	United Kingdom	36,014,081
10	European Commission	32,451,039
11	Switzerland	29,132,661
12	Germany	28,456,272
13	Private Donors	23,084,971
14	Finland	18,736,010
15	Australia	13,868,115
16	Spain	13,716,100
17	Russian Federation	12,500,000
18	Luxembourg	11,338,301
19	Ireland	9,186,704
20	France	9,140,161
21	Bangladesh	5,787,465
22	Norway	5,404,288
23	New Zealand	4,894,327
24	Austria	3,414,417
25	Greece	3,213,770
26	China	2,500,000
27	Republic of Korea	1,951,010
28	Iceland	1,603,498
29	Zambia, The Republic Of	1,250,000
30	Mauritania	1,237,445
31	Republic of Congo	800,000
32	Burkina Faso	603,768
33	Peru	316,652
34	Egypt	309,096
35	Turkey	300,000
36	South Africa	213,841
37	Brazil	200,000
38	Liechtenstein	110,091
39	Mozambique	105,048
40	India	75,472
41	Syria	62,630
42	Czech Republic	56,818
43	Opec Fund	50,000
44	United Arab Emirates	50,000
45	Thailand	47,755
46	Slovenia	47,319
47	Estonia	46,581
48	Jordan	42,118
49	Pakistan	37,127
50	Faroe Islands	30,425
51	Israel	30,000
52	Guinea, The Republic Of	19,716
53	Belgium	14,793
54	Holy See	10,000
55	Bhutan	5,014
56	Malaysia	4,213
57	Panama	1,000
GRAND TOTAL		1,100,614,645

Yes the oppressive, evil ‘Great Satan’ contributed the most to the organization. Let us see where the rest fall in on the list.

China, who is experiencing a favorable balance of trade, came in at #26. Their generosity could only muster $2,500,000. I can not put a dollar figure on the value of China’s blocking of any U.N. resolutions condemning the Military Junta’s oppression in Myanmar. But keep in mind the food needs to go to other places too.

Where did the Peace Loving Oil Producing countries of the Middle East come in? 43^rd out of 57 listed. How much could OPEC part with? $50,000. U.A.E. contributed $50,000.

OPEC is raking in huge amounts of money each day. And it isn’t enough for them, the price of oil continues to rise. Oil is needed in the production of food, which hurts countries even more.

How many barrels of oil a day is Saudi Arabia exporting? 6,710,000 a day! And they are only part of the whopping $50,000 donated by OPEC.

I guess spending the money on exporting their violent form of Islam is more important than helping feed the needy. Supporting the Palestinian’s need for weapons and explosives, to murder Jews and each other is a higher priority than feeding hungry, malnutritioned children in the world.

I guess we know where the peoples’ of the world priorities lie, don’t we?

Some want to kill, others want to help. The ones who help in a positive way are the Evil ones.

Go figure.