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Uncle Scrooge.(on the right)(Column)
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 30
ON the matter of the tsunami, several thoughts come to mind, disparate but not unrelated. 1) The first recalls Bishop Butler of the 18th century. Ronald Knox nicely summarized what I have come to call "Butler's Escape," as follows: "I do not think there is any getting over the force of Butler's argument in the Analogy, that if we had been set down to build this world according to our own specifications, it would not have been the world as we know it." No cancer, no tsunamis, no whooping cough.
2) The second remarks the tendency to assume that money given away by the U.S. is accumulated by exnihilation. Before, there was nothing: Breathe smilingly--and there is an ocean of money! So that the matter people begin talking about isn't raising money, it's allocating it. Certainly no one this side of Aceh has suggested a surtax for the benefit of the stricken. The money is just supposed to crystallize, which is a feat of modern economics nowhere explained except in ancient alchemical texts.
3) There has been major taunting of the United States. This was triggered by the president's mention of $35 million as an initial contribution to the relief and reconstruction of the stricken areas.
All the world denounced this as piffle, a sum of money embarrassing in its meanness, given American wealth. One observer thought to spotlight our niggardliness by contrasting this with posted commitments by other nations, prominent among them, Spain. Spain is allocating $68 million. The question crosses the mind of the solon: How much money has Spain saved by withdrawing from the collective effort to curb Saddam Hussein? The difference between the bloody chaos brought on by the tsunami and the ...
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