The EU population is more than double the US 730,894,078 [link|http://www.internetworldstats.com/europa.htm|http://www.internetw...ts.com/europa.htm] the poverty line due to social safety nets is higher than ours
I'm not too sure about that, any more... Not *everywhere* in the newly-enlarged EU, I wouldn't think.


and the GNP of EU should be equal to ours so if we do in fact end up spending more than you'all at the end of the day you should be ashamed of yourselves :-)
"if", indeed.

Trust me, I'm pretty sure that -- contrary to what BeeP tried to claim as late as yesterday -- you DON'T give, in absolute terms, even close to what just the EU, combined, gives.