More socialism, less charity

From USA Today: "Americans give record $295 billion to charity"

[NYU professor Claire] Gaudiani said Americans give twice as much as the next most charitable country, according to a November 2006 comparison done by the Charities Aid Foundation. In philanthropic giving as a percentage of gross domestic product, the U.S. ranked first at 1.7%. No. 2 Britain gave 0.73%, while France, with a 0.14% rate, trailed such countries as South Africa, Singapore, Turkey and Germany.

Or, as Fark puts it: "Meanwhile, the French wouldn't toss you a sou if you were bleeding on their porch."