Which is more important to you, things happening at home or things happening abroad.?

Question

With our government attempting to be the worlds policeman we have dumped billions in other peoples pockets over the issues the government would like you to think are important in IRAQ. Much of the money sent there has been squandered and lost... Billions of Dollars. Mean while we struggle to cope with the high cost of Medical Care and Drugs here at home while our borders remain unsecure and gas prices doing their yo-yo and the gas companies declaring even bigger profits. Jobs have been created, but to what degree is uncertain, but more importantly the wages that these jobs pay have decreased. So the middle class and the poor have actually lost money in this deal while the rich continue to profit from stocks climbing and tax cuts that enable the rich to build even more factories outside the country in china and elsewhere. Costs of College are climbing, the rich have no problems paying the costs but... what about you. So tell the country is important to you.

Answer 1

Its funny and sad really. I hear people sying we need to protect basic human rights abroad. But what they don't realize, and because government does not announce it and media does not report it, is that basic human rights are being stripped away right here at home.

What we need to do, regardless of whether you agree or disagree, is read everything possible that presented to them. And then they need to think, not whether or not it will be true, but whether or not it may be true.

Bush signed the Military Commission Act. How long before government use it to go after people with opinions opposite that of government? Be afraid because people in power have a tendency to distort laws and use them in ways not intended.

Disagree? Look up DMCA and what it was intended for. Now consider this. Manufacturers of electronic voting booth have brought suits using the DMCA against 2 youths for pointing out that the program running those booths were flawed and people could possibly vote many times.

Answer 2

Obviously the most important is what is happening in this country. We have our own issues to deal with; the cost of housing, healthcare, etc. However, I think it is important to be familiar and knowledgeable about issues that are happening abroad as well. Americans have a tendency of appearing apathetic and ethnocentric to global issues and other cultures. Before the war not many Americans were familiar with Afghanistan or the culture because Afghanistan was a place on the other side of the world that really did not matter or have a place in the lives of Americans. So for me I try to be always be culturally aware of what is going on in the world.

Answer 3

You are right. The American people need to be taken care of but instead, we are set aside while our government plays war with Iraq, and anybody else that wants to join in. I agree, even though new jobs have been created, how solid are they? Will the pay keep up with the cost of living? Insurance benefits? There are a few companies around here that do not even offer health insurance anymore and I'd like to know what people are suppose to do without insurance! Some get medicaid, but not all. If you make $1 over what the supposedly national average is, oops, you don't qualify and in my opinion, the national average needs to be recalculated.

Answer 4

BOTH, surely its time we recognized that we are all children of the very same universe. Why should borders make us more or less concerned about everyone on EARTH. I believe each time a child dies of aids in Africa, an Iraqi is murdered, a US soldier is blown up , it impacts us all, because the WORLD turns accordingly ....there will be an effect however remote it may seem that will come back to haunt each and every one of us in some way or another..... I like to call it UNIVERSAL KARMA.

We all have a responsibility, to every living being, none can be dismissed, because without our bodies delineating us in form, we would all be one. It is that oneness that becomes the experience of HEAVEN and in that form we will sit next to the guy that got blown up in Iraq, whom we forgot to care about.

Answer 5

It does not protect the American interest in the short or long term here or abroad to create a rally flag for the terrorists by waging a war against a nation that had a leader that came down hard on religious extremists. We created a power vacuum that religious extremists were more than happy to fill. By our actions in Iraq, we are recruiting terrorists for the terrorists faster than we can kill them. If the Republicans were interested in a united front against terrorism, they should have stuck with going after the terrorists and killing them instead of destabilizing a government that already had a lid on terrorists.

Answer 6

I tend to agree somewhat here. We DO seem to turn our backs on our own people while we always tend to help others. I hate to say this, but they're probably getting better medical care than I am. If I need an operation or something, well, that's too bad, I don't have insurance, but if someone, not from this country needs something done; hey, we'll do it for nothing. Yes, that irritates me. There's alot in this country that needs to be taken care of. YET, I really hate to say this, we STILL have it better than they do. My prayers and thoughts are with the soldiers every single day, so I guess I'm focusing more on them, then my own problems.

Answer 7

All of the examples you sight in your question are indeed very important issues - but they are all significantly less important than our security and safety and the defeat of the demented Islamic ideology.

Imagine if they win.
Their demand is clear:
You will convert to Islam.......or you will die.

Obviously, when there isn't a real and obvious threat from abroad to our nation - domestic problems take on a much higher priority than things happening abroad.

Answer 8

My first impulse would be to say fix things at home... but we've made a real mess in Iraq that we are responsible for, "not me", because I voted against bush both times.. but as a nation we need to clean up our mess, get the UN in there and get our own people out.. Negotiators that they trust need to help them form whatever government they want... that's the most important thing that I would like to see get done first.

Answer 9

We don't live in a bubble kiddies. Conservatives - NeoCons - Libertarians - well, The Right - can see the big picture. Because of your time spent in the cloud of negativity and whining, you aren't able to see and fix problems. That's what makes your predicament so saddening. Why don't you help fix things? Apply elbow grease?

Answer 10

I think what happens abroad has more impact here "at home" than most people realize.

Even if it didn't, we have a moral obligation to act in any way available to us to protect basic human rights, both within and outside our borders.