Why Do We?

Question

Why do we spend more time, money, and resources taking care of homeless and malnourished children in third world countries than we do taking care of the ones here in our own back yard. I watch TV at night and I see all these celebrities hawking the latest charity that for "just pennies a day" feeds a foreign child or gives him medicine or clothes and educates him. Why can't we have the same type of celebrity commitment here in the states?

Answer 1

Heck with celebrity commitment, they're just garnering publicity. What I want to know is why we can't have government commitment to helping our own people here at home? Katrina victims are still homeless and/or displaced, but hey, let's go throw tax dollars at another country's problems!

Thinking that this is happening because other countries need the help more is naive at best. More like Bush is trying to create future allies.

Answer 2

Politics of goodwill. Also, there isn't any real need for hunger in this country as there are plenty of charities - no child has to go hungry. The problem here is drug and alcohol addicted parents who spend their days and nights looking for drug money and other addicts to shoot up with. Children of these sperm and egg donors are often left to wander the streets. Also, there are a few million children of illegals whose parents are so disconnected that they don't know how to see that their children eat food rather than drink sodas and eat chips. Government no longer has an interest in the homeless except to run them out and into the shadows at nighttime. This is just some of the evidence that America is in decline and without a government assist there is no hope.
Third world countries, especially in Africa, often in civil war use and abuse children constantly. If the U.S. did not get what aid it can to the children - almost impossible because the corrupt governments insist supplies be handed out by them and the officials take much of the food, medicine and money. A million children die each year in third world countries because madmen have seized control. And the U.S. will not do the right thing and assasinate the despots. The abuse and neglect of the world's children is so horrendous that one wonders how we Americans can go blissfully through our day angry that we can't afford a better car, computer or home theater system. Worse, teenagers who are so consumed with how they look, do they have the kinds of clothes other teens demand they wear lest they not be "accepted" is obscene. The world has gone greedy, power hungry and mad. Welcome to our world!

Answer 3

Everyone thinks that the government is doing the job here. They do not realize that our government has so many loop holes and stringent rules that over half of the needy fall through the cracks.
Then you have the people here who think if you are down and out there must be something you are doing wrong and that you don't deserve help.
Lastly celebrities think that by putting their face out for other countries it's better publicity. Why admit that people here need help when it would make them look bad.
So the rich keep getting richer and the poor are forgotten.

Answer 4

Advertisement! if people advertised charity for their own kids and homeless the way they do for others, then i'm sure they'd get a good response.

Answer 5

Because they need it more then we do. I mean if u are trying to say that why don't we take care of our own is like saying people in the world should take care of themself and not help other who are in need more then we are.

Answer 6

that is a great point. Are homelesses rate is growing so much we should really fight poverty in our backyards before we go international. I also think it is just publicity that celebs do it for

Answer 7

Amen!

Two points!