Compassion

A few backround facts. GDP
per capital for the US in 2003 was $37,562 per year, or $102.91 per
day, compared with $2892 in India, where 34.7% earn less than $1/day
and 79.9% earn less than $2/day. By comparison, China's per capita
income in 2003 was $5003, while 16.6% earned less than $1/day and 46.7%
less than $2/day.



More per capita income figures for 2003: World $8229. Developing
countries $4359, Japan $27,967, Israel $20,033, Lebanon $5074, Saudi
Arabia $13,226, Mexico $9168, Arab states $5685, Iran $6995, Haiti
$1742, and Nigeria $1050. The life expectancy of a child born in
America today is 77.4 years , Italy 80, Japan 82. In Nigeria it is
43.4; in Haiti 51.6.

We live in a wonderful, safe and free country. We can afford
humanity and compassion towards people inside and outside our country
who are not so blessed.

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