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annfan_777 Wrote: Dec 27, 2012 1:37 PM
Correction: "also excellent"
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“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business.”
Americans, it seems, truly take Jacob Marley’s ghostly warning to Ebenezer Scrooge to heart -- not only at Christmas time, but throughout the year.
Indeed, overall we are the most generous people on earth. The U.S. economy is responsible for a little more one-fifth of the world's total GDP, yet Americans give more in charity to the less fortunate than the rest of the world put together.
We donated more than $300 billion in 2009, despite the economic downturn. This...
The Spirit of Generosity