why do we waste money in other places but we let ower people starve hear?

Question

i had some tell me that we have food stamp and other thing but wen we sufer from huracanes and other thing the gov takes for ever to help but they make sure help other countries in a heart beat

Answer 1

No one is starving in the united states. We have food stamps, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, churches, canned food drives, welfare checks, and all sorts of other handouts. We also have the richest and most generous population on earth. Whomever is starving is a crack addict or is too lazy to beg the government for my money, or is making good money pretending to be poor and begging on the streets for booze money.

I repeat: No one is starving in the United States.

However, I agree with the premise that we send too much aid overseas, when that aid is stolen by aggressive governments who fund terrorism and butcher thier own people an buy weapons with the money sent for aid.

Answer 2

All these people saying that starvation doesn't exist here obviously has never ventured into the unsavory part of any bigger city. What's more is we have such a screwed up social security system; I'm putting in $300 a paycheck and I'll never see any of it, but somehow senior citizens find themselves having to decide between food or medication?
A couple of years ago the U.S. government wrote off a couple of billion dollars it loaned to Brazil fourteen years prior. It was dismissed so that Brazil could grow their economy futher. They could have put every homeless person with a substance abuse problem in rehab camps, fed them, and created jobs for them. Instead they loaned money to a country like a deadbeat brother who isn't good on his word. I say if they could pay it back, then our companies should have gotten their exports for free for x amount of years.

Answer 3

When Katrina hit, I watched as a woman with nine kids plead for help from the government. She was mad because no-one had come to rescue her and her kids. Question: Why the heck did she have nine kids when she didn't even have enough money for gas to get out of the city. Answer: The government had already given her more than enough for survival to the point of abuse, and her sense of additional entitlement was laughable. The government is best helping ONLY those who can't help themselves, like areas of true poverty, not areas where single mothers with nine kids think the government is there to correct every problem they failed to avoid in the first place. Don't believe me - Go down to your local welfare office and count the cell phones and $100 shoes. But you'd rather give more money and opportunity to them, and you think the truly poor who had everything in life destroyed should not receive our humanity in favor of them?

Answer 4

No one in this country has starved to death in over a hundred years.
That is not true for much of the 3rd world.


The Stats that speak of thousands of people going hungry in the US are including people that have missed one meal in a weeks period. I guess that includes me.
Don`t believe me? Then look up the criteria that establishes what hungry means. You will be very surprised. Then tell your stupid teacher the facts.

Answer 5

Well think about it like this for a second. If you do a good deed do you tell other people about it? Some say yes some say no. The ones who say no help because they want to and it makes them feel good. The ones who say yes want to look good to other people. Picking the second answer gives the illusion of being a humanitarian. Which one do you think our government is?

Answer 6

This question pisses me off because it's true. I don't have an answer and I would really like to see the money we send to third world countries used here for just 2 years.

Answer 7

Yeah...I live in Louisiana, and I know people that are still waiting for their FEMA trailers. I think there's just too much red tape. They tried to make it easy for victims of Rita to get funds, and they got a lot of fraud in return. I wonder how easily funds made it to the tsunami victims...

Answer 8

It's way worse than you know
Or for people who are making fun of those who claim everything is about oil. There's also this little fact:

The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.

In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.

Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.

Hoover Institution
Kuwait:

Democracy, Kuwait Style
Peter Berkowitz



It’s not that the woman question was the only issue faced by voters. From the owner and editor in chief of Kuwait’s largest newspaper, to the chief executive officer of Kuwait Petroleum Company, to the former Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, our interlocutors argued that the Kuwaiti economy is stagnating and that the remedy is privatization. This is a difficult proposition, however, in a country where 90 to 95 percent of the labor force is employed by the government, which generally pays more than the private sector. And designing institutions to create the right incentives will be difficult in a country whose oil wealth supports a massive welfare state with no taxes that generously funds its citizens’ health, education, and housing needs.

Pollution free electric power has been all over DC. Clinton, Gore, Newt, Sam Nun, DOE, and many other you wouldn’t know.

Clinton “was too busy moving the country forward”
Gore said “I wish you good luck, I’m glad to see other’s are working on our energy problem”
Newt “promised his full support” To sell to Ga. Power for a .01c on the dollar to invent and patent this tech
I have letters from these crumbs saying this!
Sam was to busy with Armed Services he just brushed me off real fast!
Mason Wiggins of the Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee said “ this appears to be the secret we’ve been looking for” he took it to friends in the DOE. DOE management found it had come in the back door and threw 100% clean electric power 1000 times more electric power than the largest Nuclear plant.

If Alaska pays
Kuwait pays even it’s indirectly after the gulf war losses
Dubai pays

Why can’t your state pay you? With all the resources of the feds why can’t the feds pay 50 times what Alaska pays?

The dems and reps have all the power shouldn’t they have the responsibility for their mismanagement?

VOTE! Vote for anyone as long as they’re not a dem or rep!

If our founding father were alive today. They would lay siege to DC tar and feather ALL the officials and hang them on the steps for all to see the consequences of screwing Americans!!

There must be security for all, or none are secure!
This requires losing no freedoms, only to act responsibly!

Answer 9

so the politicians can stay rich. Katrina is a fine example. Where did all those billions of dollars go?

Answer 10

B,cos that's American policies dump!head...save what they ve and exploit developing countries.eg Iraq oil,chines technology,Cuban cigar,and Afghanistan opium...and African ******..lol