To each according to his need

In the wake of the recent earthquake and subsuquent tsunami, many people have been scrambling to organize relief efforts and to help the clean up effort. One individual named Jan Egeland of the United Nations came out with the following analysis about the financial contributions of certain countries (read: US):

• "We were more generous when we were less rich, many of the rich countries. It is beyond me why we are so stingy," Mr. Egeland says. "Actually foreign assistance for many countries now is 0.1 or 0.2 percent of gross national income, that is stingy."

This statement illustrates precisely the problem with Marxists who always have their hands out. No matter how much you give them, it's never enough. There is always somebody else who needs more, some other project to undertake, some other initiative to implement.

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Reuters reports on who has pledged and contributed what so far to the relief effort.