We have so many homeless and starving people in the US. There is child abuse and battered women. Low income families living in poverty. There are not enough shelters or assistance for our own, because there are no funds. There could be, if the government would realize that we Americans should always come 1st. My father always said " Always clean up your own backyard before trying to clean up others." I believe this sums it all up in just 11 words.
2006-06-28 07:22:40 · 7 answers · asked by msbee1957 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
There is not enough help here because people cheat the system. I worked in a convenience store once upon a time and I used to watch people take the cash benefits for their assistance out of the ATM. Instead of buying diapers or whatever it was intended for they would buy beer. There was NOTHING we could do about it. On the other hand there are people who could and would qualify for help but are too proud or embarrassed to do so. Their children could have had a better life but the lady at the WIC office was nasty to them (aren't all WIC offices like that?) so they don't get the extra food for their children. Our country has a lot of problems but children don't have to starve to death here. If someone is truly without means and is destitute they can get help but it will not be a comfortable life...just a meager one.
The comment about the neighbors vermin is so true as well. We take the tired the poor though not as openly as we once did. People all across the world resent our country and if we didn't help and were able it could grow to larger hostility. Look what happened when France didn't support us. People were anti France. Some people still have a bad taste in their mouths about Switzerlands neutrality. IF the US hadn't been so quick to sit on their hands in WWII who knows how many lives may have been saved. Though since we did we had fresh amounts of troops and because of the attack on our own country a motivated country behind the troops. IF we had gotten in the suck earlier the outcome could have been different for the worse as well. But I can't imagine people in those days spitting on soldiers and calling them baby killers like they did in Vietnam.
Image is everything and you cant please all people all of the time.
Money....there will never be enough to please everyone.
2006-06-28 18:03:29 · answer #1 · answered by Mommy 2 Special Needs KIDZ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't get me wrong-your dad is right-but consider what I am going to say:
Maybe it's because we already dole out billions in dollars of assistance to needy people here. Maybe it's because if a person wants to make it, they are free to do it here.Maybe it's because Americans believe in the value of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. Maybe because from the day a child in this country is born they are free and can be whatever they wish.
We have been so indoctrinated into this whole victim mindset that we can't do anything without "help". Ever heard that old saying God helps those who help themselves?
2006-06-28 08:28:06 · answer #2 · answered by kelly24592 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Adams, as president, desired to close down competition. It used to be the worst political resolution he made. It overshadowed the entire well he did as president and he used to be no longer elected for a moment time period. The management is disappointed due to the fact that this memo obtained out. I am disappointed that this memo used to be ever allotted to regulation enforcement businesses. It isn't the primary time this style of nonsense has occurred. And it isn't confined to the Democrats. But this can be a danger to our freedoms and I desire it backfires in this president. I have plenty extra recognize for John Adams.
2016-08-31 09:10:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
governments cant change poor or senseless behaviour...like for example drunks drive on the road and kill others.even if they dont have a lisence or have had jail time......people dont clean up there own back yards..
2006-06-28 07:51:05 · answer #4 · answered by messyhair_45 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here's the problem with your colloquial wisdom:
if you allow your neighbor's backyard to get so overgrown and out of hand, sooner or later you'll have vermin in your own yard
2006-06-28 07:26:19 · answer #5 · answered by whoisgod71 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if everyone took care of them selves they wouldnt need handouts. this is america there is no reason why everyone cant have a job.id rather sell happy meals then be a bumb
2006-06-28 07:29:54 · answer #6 · answered by eight beers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love that you posted that question because it is so true. But what can we do to change things.
2006-06-28 08:00:42 · answer #7 · answered by mommyof2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋