Homeless and Hungry in America?

Question

we support other countries and give them food, money and aide... we need to focus on home a little bit more. We have just as many if not more homeless and hungry and we are the richest country in the world. We should have homeless and hungry. Whats wrong with this picture?

The line there is we SHOULD NOT have homeless and hungry, sorry I was unable to go back to edit.

Answer 1

I agree with you. I believe we should reduce our expenses in foreign aid since most of those countries we help do not make proper use of the funds sent. We must spend more money at home than abroad.

Look. I've been to many small third world countries. I have seen that for the past 11 years foreign country politicians have not only wasted US Tax Payers Money, but they use it against us.

For example, the US DOT sent a multimillion dollars grant for building and repairing roads. The foreign government did build a road, quite small, (not even 10% the length it was supposed to be) and yet had to ask for more money to complete it. Where did the money go?

The US DOJ sends blocks of money each month to a foreign Justice System to "modernize" courts and make their legal system more human. A small town court should have at least 10 computers for the people employed there. But you barely find two, and each of those two computers costed $5,000 dollars, and the software is mostly illegally copied (Microsoft should pay attention to this). My PC is cheaper, has more software, NONE illegaly copied and I have not spent $5,000 dollars on it.

Take another example: We want to fight drugs and illegal immigration, yet our US Navy and USCG gives (for free) boats and ships to the foreign countries, and some of them are being used to smuggle drugs and people into the USA. Yes, they catch some illegal aliens and druggies, but it is more a way to say "look Uncle Sam, we caught this things and these guys, give us more money so we can catch even more of each", and in the mean time we get more and more drugs and illegal aliens not knowing how they got in.

There are even some foreign governments that ask the US for help, but the help is distributed among high ranking officials who give it to their relatives to sell it to the needy we are supposelly helping.

We need all that waste to be stopped; we need to help our people more at home and those of us abroad, and if a country wants us to help them, they should let us decide by ourselves who will get the help, because obviously the foreign officials keep getting richer and richer each day, while their people keep getting poorer and poorer.

Answer 2

HELLO! Anybody here aside from David H have a clue? People are not homeless because they can't get what they need. They are homeless because they choose to take drugs and drink booze and not work. There is more than enough help available to people who don't want to live on the street. If you quit the substances and go to work you can have everything you need in no time. You can get all kinds of help if you ask for it. It's their own fault and I have no sympathy. It's their choice to live that way. No matter what the government does there will always be homeless people. Everyone here seems to think the government can do away with the problem by throwing more money at it. Wake up! Anyone ever hear of individual responsibility? If you want to do something for the homeless, give them nothing. You only enable them to continue being zonked out and homeless. Carry cards around with the relavant contact info for places they can go for help. Next time one of them asks you for money obsensebly for food hand them a card. Anyone with half a brain knows that money will be smokes, shot, snorted or drank. There is more free food available in any big city than a person could eat. You can't do a damn thing for a person who is unwilling to do for themselves. That goes for the individual as well as the government. There is no reason for homelessness in this country except for incurable laziness.

Answer 3

i agree with you. our problem is that the u.s. denies our problem because it makes us look bad. it used to be that the gap between the rich and the poor was huge, now that gap is between the rich and the WORKING poor. inflation has shot up the cost of living and wages have not kept up for the average american worker. no one in this country should go hungry, not a child, not an adult, not a senior citizen. but we send money and food and aid to other countries while making it humiliating for our own people here at home to get a little help. working families go without food, utilities and proper clothing because they WORK... sorry, if you work you don;t "qualify" for help in most cases. the homeless problem is becoming epidemic, and it's scary to see how many of these homeless folks are families with small children.

when we send a billion dollars to another country, everyone else in the world claps and praises that generosity, and next week another country is standing there with a hand out. the u.s. has to start learning how to say no... no more "foriegn aid" until we have our own citizens clothed, fed and housed. no more "foreign aid" once we help and see the money wasted. no more "loans" to foreign countries that are never repaid and we end up "forgiving" the debt... when our own people here are losing homes at a near historical rate because our lenders don't "forgive" our loans... and our government has sent so much money elsewhere that there are no funds to help our own.

heads up... u.s. dollars for u.s.citizens

Answer 4

It's the same all around the world.

Most of the charity donations in the UK go abroad, when there are plenty of homeless here - and derelcit houses that could be done up to house them.

While I can see that money is needed for the 3rd world, I disagree with it going there to the detriment of the donators home country.

But if that's what has been SPECIFICALLY donated for then it's the donors wish.

And it's that SPECIFICALLY that is the reason I don't donate to large fund raising drives like our "Red Nose Day".

I want to know exactly what my money is going to, not that it may or may not stay in the UK at the whim of the charity administrators.

Answer 5

No we should not but sadly enough we still do. Thank Bush for that. He doesn't care about anything but the war. A lot of things are being ignored. Like health care, the homeless as you pointed out. Bush's entire existence is the war. He thinks of nothing else. America is being neglected because of him.

Answer 6

There are no hungry in usa. With human beings getting fatter via the day I could disagree with you. Our human beings on welfare have it greater valuable than maximum countries. The homeless subject must be addressed on a case via case foundation.

Answer 7

I agree with you too, seems everyone wants to ignore the problem here in the US, I think this country needs to concentrate a little more on the problems right here at home.

Answer 8

well: we'd known about the" 100,000's Homelss People
living in our streets alone" also there's an couple of
Orginizations that would give support with Volunteering minstry
from each Groups
http://www.homeless.shelters.org.com
http://www.unitedway.food.donations.org.com
http://www.unicef.clothingprogram.org.com
remember this for each one community built they'd support one
child at an time!

Answer 9

True, but we've got a rep to uphold.
Every other country criticizes us if we don't give more to other countries. I guess America is very insecure and doesn't like it when her friends don't have a positive opinion of her.

Answer 10

I agree. Maybe if we weren't spending so much on wars we could take care of our own people a little better.