how come we have so many people in paverty in the U.S and dont help them,but we help other countrys?

Answer 1

personally, I can tell you that I wonder the same thing. we should take care of 'our own' first and that includes the hungry and homeless in our own country...there are a multitude of reasons for poverty, one of them being overpopulation, too many people not enough resources. or rather, those with the resources not willing to share...

Answer 2

There are no universally acceptable answers to that question. To begin with it's not possible to support all the "poor" at the level they would prefer, if you tried that you'd find more and more people would simply quit working and take the free ride. When I was young I used to ask why don't the government just print more money, I mean, they have the presses, and it cost's almost nothing to print the stuff, so why don't they just print up a few truckloads and take it around to the ghettos and pass out however much people need! I was convinced that the reason they didn't was because they wanted the poor people to stay poor. (my parents were democrats and I heard that all the time) That's almost what this question reminds me of. One must keep in mind that we are the most generous nation on earth, far and away, hands down, bar none, period! Consider this, if a single mother with say three children applies for public support, she can get free housing, free food, free medical care, free utilities, and free cash, for a total of over $3300 per month, all without lifting a finger, but because she lives in the "projects" we still call her "poor". I have any number of friends who work fulltime jobs (and pay tax's) and make nowhere near that. Before you advocate giving more and more to the "poor" maybe you should examine the facts a bit closer. Why would Mexicans be streaming here literally by the millions if there's no work and no money here? The real fact is that there's more work here than anyplace else on earth, and there's more money here than anyplace else on earth. The claim that we're overrun by poverty stricken millions is an absolute falsehood perpetuated by people with political agendas. The sad fact is that we've created an entire class of dependant deadbeats who can not afford to work because they'd have to take a substantial cut in their real incomes, and still they complain. It brings up the inevitable question, how much is enough. I had a small business for several years in which I employed 8 to 12 people. I was only two blocks from a large public housing development, and it was frustrating as hell to try finding help. When I put ads in the paper offering work I had endless numbers apply who couldn't do the simplest math, write a meaningful sentence, read a map, tell me the governors name, recite the pledge of allegiance, who started world war two, and couldn't read beyond a fourth grade level. (some could barely read at all) But you know what, they could name half the players in the NBA, recite hours of rap word for word, and most wanted to be paid "under the table" so they wouldn't lose their foodstamps. This was male and female, black and white, young and not so young. I sold the little business three years ago and it's now run by a Mexican gentleman who's grown it to over 50 employees, (all Mexicans) So don't get too excited about all those "poor" people unless you're going to consider the whole story. I'm perfectly willing to support those who cannot support themselves, but it irks me to be forced to support those who REFUSE to support themselves. I managed to get through school and then worked my own way through college, but my grandparents lived in depression era Appalachia, during the thirties they did hard labor six days a week for an average family income of about $300 per year, I know about poverty!

Answer 3

Yes, the United States helps other countries financially. However we don't spend a high percent of taxes helping other countries the way other countries do. For example we might use 1% of taxes to help other poor countries but another country may spend 10% of their taxes helping other poor countries. The reason why people living in poverty in the United States are not helped so much is because people do not vote for higher spending to help the homeless, provide food stamps, etc. There is a stereotype that these people are lazy and should get a job. One more thing to think of is why are these poor countries not helping themselves. If everyone keeps helping them where is the motivation to improve things? Many can argue that about the people living in poverty here. If you continue to help them out a lot will they be motivated to improve their situation?

Answer 4

This is a total misconception... Taxpayers support billions upon billions of dollars worth of programs, supposed to support those in poverty. The problem is; The money never gets to the people.

In the state of Washington. A study was done. Millions of taxpayer dollars were spent to discover if there were any people in Washington who needed money because they didn't have enough to eat. The study lasted over a 3 years period. As I said, millions of dollars were spent, but not one nickel ever reached a person who was hungry and I never did hear the study results.

In another study; Child Support Enforcement workers are paid from your taxes...If they fired all of the workers at Child Support Enforcement offices in Washington state. The state could pay each child, $14,000 per year...

I once bid a government construction job. A million dollars had been allocated to provide jobs for poor people. By the time they rented an office, paid their salaries, paid for office equipment and their own housing needs. There was approximately $10,000 left for any project that would have provided jobs... You couldn't open a hot dog stand for that...

It's our own government wasting our money... As long as there are poor people, these bureaucrates have jobs. Eliminate poverty and their jobs are gone. Guess what they'll do !

The money we spend on foreign aid suffers the same fate in the hands of other governments... Think of all the money we have sent to third world countries. How much of it do you think was distributed to the poor ?

In a real world business office; Everything gets done with 10% of the work force, required to do the same thing in any government office... Go figure...

Answer 5

Because we need someone to flip our burgers, pick our produce, and in general be an underclass that boosts up all of the classes above it. It's a sick, sad state of affairs today in this country. There are a lot of things that your goverment should be doing but isn't doing, while all of the people are too busy "consuming" and driving little Suzy to soccer practice to notice the great suffering around them. The sheep are happy so long as they themselves are comfortable and entertained.

Answer 6

I believe it is because the U.S. is the cause of poverty for other countries. Ever heard the expression Dumping Corn or some other type of food product. We pay our farmers extra money to grow extra food that we do not use. we take the extra food and sell it on the world market at an insanly cheap price one that other countries cannot compete with and so cannot sell their foods. Thus we create poverty in other countries.

Answer 7

READ THIS- i will answer you simply..because it is a statistic fact that the homeless in the U.S each out of the trash better than 90 percent of the world...because almost 50 percent of the world population lives under 2 dollars a day

-cheesey thug-

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Answer 8

You need to learn the difference between relative poverty and abject poverty.

US citzens, even the poor ones, still have a higher standard of living than a lot of people worldwide.

Furthermore, foreign aid is a very small portion of the US budget.

Answer 9

I bet EVERYONE that lives in the US would like an answer to that question!
Why are we busy fighting and rebuilding over there when we lack so many things over here? Let them take care of their own problems!

Answer 10

that's so true, I mean, I'm sure our charities are helping some, but clearly not enough. I wish we could help Americans suffering from poverty first, then, move on to the next task.