i know how to fix crime and health care in america!?

Question

in my city certain poor neighborhoods are very dangerouse particurlarly black and mexican area's that is partly do to there unfair advantages that they have had to face over the years. also health care seems to be a big problem for the poor and middle class citizens. so my question is if the usa can send billions and even trillions of dollars to fight wars in two different countries and spend all the trillions of dollars elsewhere in the world. taking care of other countries but how can they not directly take care of our own citizens. i thought we were the richest country in the world right? why do i see so many poor helpless people everywhere? i mean think about it if the united states would giver every single citizen one million dollars which there are about 300 million cititzens in the usa that would only be $300 million right?
that is chump change to our country and i would think crime and murders wouldn't hardly even exist. i mean they have the means to solve this and they don't

Answer 1

You're right that we're spending a lot of money overseas that could be put to far better use on domestic programs to help the unfortunate.

However, doling out $1 million dollars to each and every person would merely cause massive inflation. If everyone had that much more money, the money would just be worth less - suddenly you'd be spending $100 for a carton of milk at the grocery store.