Should we fix poverty in our own country before helping other nations?

Answer 1

Imagine a world without presidents or dictators or kings..Just people helping people. No dollars or yen or euros. No violence, or hatred or crime. No rich or poor...No hunger, pain or disease..Shangrila...The perfect world..
The point is we do not live in a perfect world..and although
I agree we should work on the problem of poverty at home; we can not morally turn our backs on others who are suffering either. Can we?

Answer 2

It'd be nice if life worked that way. Unfortunately human instinct is always going to get in the way. The more help you give out, the more people sit around and try to live off the handouts, and figure out ways to demand more.

Over the last 40 years the United States has spent six trillion dollars in the war on poverty. Know what we got? Six trillion dollars worth of poor people. What is the exit strategy in the war on poverty?

Yes some people truly do need some temporary help, but we should be focused on giving them a hand up, not a handout.

BTW, if you look into the way poverty is defined by the government, you will discover that it is absolutely impossible to eliminate all the poor. The Bureaucrats are busy protecting their jobs. It's interesting to note that the average American living below the poverty line, enjoys a higher standard of living than the average European.

The best cure for poverty I know of is the alarm clock.

Answer 3

You cannot "fix poverty." If all the wealth and property in the U.S. were equally divided among every resident (legal or not) it would take only a few months for the status quo ante to return, with perhaps a 5% change. There is some luck, of course, but mostly, we are where we are because of decisions we have made.

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Answer 5

yes, we should fix the Poverty in our own Backyard before helping other countries. All these Preachers support foreign help, yet can they not read their Bible? It does say: charity begins ;AT HOME.

Answer 6

It would help because since Bush has been in there are more people who are homeless as there were during the Hoover era. Take care of your own first and quit hiding the fact that people are dying here in the US just like in the other countries we are spending billions on to save.

Answer 7

I think we should help all those who are in dire need first wherever that may be. If there are 50,000 people dying of starvation in another country (3rd or 4th world where economic deprivation is a huge factor - no homeless shelters or welfare) and 5,000 dying of starvation in another country with homeless shelters and welfare and other methods of help - do you feed the 5,000 first or do you try to help some of the 50,000 who have no other means than what you have to offer them?

Answer 8

Yes, because if a country fixes its own problems, it will have a greater capability of helping other countries.

Answer 9

Well, anyone familiar with foreign aid, especially the US variant, knows that "aid" comes only with strings attached. Meaning, what the US gets in return, economically speaking, is greater than the aid given.

Furthermore, markets here in the US are saturated. The only way for US companies such as Coca Cola to increase its earnings growth rate is by finding new customers abroad, The increasing #s of middle class consumers in places such as China, India, etc are the new markets for US companies. The increasing wealth of foreign nations will help line US corporate pockets. And I do not need to telll you how this nation, like most others, is controlled by the business elite.

Think politically also. The billions of aid given to Israel(one of our highest aid recipients) is done so to contain hostile arab nations. Israel is our buffer, so to speak. And I say "hostile" not from my pt of view, but from that of US foreign policy.

Answer 10

Yes, I was greeted by the sight of a homeless woman in a wheelchair today with a sign. Help! HOMELESS AND HUNGRY. You do what you can but the people need to protest a little louder to the politicians and stop feeling so smug. One Enron and it might be them in that wheelchair. All those people Kenneth Lay left broke and homeless and he died while at his VACATION HOME in Aspen.