I just found this quote from right-leaning political analyst, Charles Krauthammer:

“We are six percent or less of the world’s population, yet we give almost half. We are a very small number of people, relatively speaking, and we carry the weight of a dozen countries. Secondly, we maintain a military structure that keeps the peace of the world…..Who is in the Indian Ocean with the aircraft carriers, helicopters, skilled personal? No one has the infrastructure in the world, we spend almost half a trillion dollars a year on our military structure, which is essentially the fire department of the planet and it is always at the disposal of people hit in a national disaster…..Incidentally on food aid, we give 60% of all the food aid in the world. It is simply irresponsible to talk about the U.S. as anything other than the most generous nation on the planet.”

So let’s all remember that the next time someone tells us that we are being stingy…less than six percent of the world’s population…

And, for the “Forgotten English” word of the day: counter-penalty – when a convicted criminal suggests his own sentence (the ancient Greeks used to do this a lot in their courts).