I mean , are americans too busy straightening up the world all the time?? I think they should look after their less privileged citizens too. The rest of the world is thankless. Look at lebenon. After the peace initiatives by USA recently they said condi rize was not even welcome in Lebanon!!!
2006-10-23 00:27:22 · 20 answers · asked by jaco 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
HA HA HA!! You guys are living in a fools paradise. Don't you know that your country is fighting it's dirty
losing wars in Iraq & Afganistan with money borrowed from China and other asians???
At the time of tsunami you guys came with the helping hand but there were people here who said to you to go fu**ing somewhere else!!
not much up to date, and thats your problem.
Yeah , you gave aid to Saddam and taliban once. They sent the aid back to you on 911 apparently. So when some one is sending back that aid why are you scurrying here and there like RATS???
2006-10-23 00:44:22 · update #1
to randband: thanks for being patient. But do you think getting Hussain solved any of the problem anywhere? The killing there is worse now. Alquiada
has turned that place to a fertile breeding ground. And it is going to spill out from there all over the place. As per USA's own intelligence , the war made the world a little LESS secure. So??
2006-10-23 00:57:30 · update #2
I totally agree, after Katrina the government took their own sweet time helping people but after the Tsunami the immediately jumped in to help. It seems to be the way America works, they send money to other countries to feed, education, and clothe children from third world countries but we have children here that need all of these things and the government makes it hard for some of the working poor to feed their families. I work with disadvantaged families and I see how the government is quick to cut them off of food stamps as soon as they get a minimum wage job, but they will go to a third world country and feed the\children there and act like the give a sh** about children will the children here don't have the tools necessary to succeed.
2006-10-23 00:48:16 · answer #1 · answered by juicie813 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not that simple. Yes, I feel mistakes were made with Katrina that were catastrophic. But I also feel that we need to watch the rest of the world. If we just stand back and watch these '' Rouge nations '' grow, it might be to late. A famous saying from WW2 was '' a good offense makes a good defense " . Keep the fight over there, and it may not come over here. I will ask you. If you had the means to help someone else, would you ? Or would you say sorry about your luck ? We can't pick and choose when and where we help. We can't say '' sorry, we are pulling out of your country because we have problems now, We will come back if we can. Hang in there '' That wouldn't work. Agree or not agree with Iraq incursion, you have to agree that it would have been disastrous to pull out before we had Hussein? . The massacres and persecutions that happened before, would only have been amplified. And lastly, consider this. Had we not helped out in WWII, even though it was Japan, and not Germany that got us involved, how much worse would it have been ? How far would the '' ethnic cleansing '' gone ?
2006-10-23 00:46:17 · answer #2 · answered by randband4 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What hasn't been done for the folks affected by Katrina. The federal government has been supporting them for over a year. Most of those displaced were renters. They will never get to go back and live in the area that they once did. The Levy's have not been upgraded and I don't know an insurance in the world who would re-insure anyone in those area. If they did, you wouldn't be able to afford the premiums. New Construction is extremely expensive, so you put that together with insurance and higher taxes now and there is no way the massive amount of welfare recipients will ever be able to live there again. It's not possible due to the costs.
2006-10-23 00:34:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where you live, but I'm sure that if you send back the foreign aid we've sent to YOUR country, we can most certainly use it to help victims of Katrina. Since you obviously have a perfect track record of helping your OWN citizens, we'll be happy to leave your country off the help list the next time a disaster hits, too. After all, you obviously have the moral high ground here; since you criticize Americans for not taking care of its own people, your own people MUST be perfectly cared-for and want for nothing, so you don't need our help any more, right?
2006-10-23 00:36:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because America was built on the principle that you do your best to take care of yourself. When something like a hurricane happens you jump in and try to fix things yourself. Unfortunately the majority of those in New Orleans are of the "someone else needs to take care of me" mindset. We still have dislocated New Orleans individuals in our city who over a year later are still asking for handouts to pay for a place to live, etc. Maybe we should be like Houston and tell them to shape up, get a job, or go back to New Orleans.
I would have no problem cutting off all the financial aid to every other country in the world. Of course if we did that we would still be the bad guy.
2006-10-23 00:39:10 · answer #5 · answered by tac_sa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is really aimed at the rhetoric in the comment following your question. What was the title of that KINKS song ? Captain America calling ? I think that kind of sums things up. " I bailed you out, when you were down on your knees, so will you catch me now I'm falling.I stood by you, thru all of your transgressions. I lifted you when you were down. I called you on the telephone, but your secretary told that she's sorry but your out of town. Will you catch me now I'm falling. This is captain America calling.'' OK, point is , a British band writes a song like this ..... in the 70's. We have always been there, and as bitter as some get, we will continue. What makes the life of any one , any more important than another ?
2006-10-23 01:06:13 · answer #6 · answered by rock d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The population gave more to relief for New Orleans than to any place outside the country ever. I don't understand your point. If America has the capacity I think they should help others. I would hope that the people of the world are grateful even if the politicians don't seem to be.
2006-10-23 00:31:49 · answer #7 · answered by waggy_33 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We Americans do look after our own….Katrina was a disaster and all Americans did and are still doing what they can for those who were impacted by Katrina and not just Katrina practically every tragedy that has happen to our country….so don't confuse politics with the citizen's of this Country
2006-10-23 00:40:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We had hoped Angelina Jolie would save us here on the coast but she was too busy with saving the rest of the world. But her and her husband finally showed up more than a year after the fact.
2006-10-23 00:35:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We did help but lots of the Katrina victims spend our money in strip clubs and wasted it away on unnecessary high priced cloths and crap they didn't need. The card worth two thousand dollars has a tract record. Check it out I'm telling the truth.
2006-10-23 00:31:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋