Why does the world always have their hands out for American help but all we get back is insults and hatred?

Question

I got a simple solution: give them what they want. How about we NOT help out the world, because I hate people who have their hands out and with the same breath is criticizing the government giving them money. We could be using that money instead to strengthen our country and to hell with the haters.

if we do give a small percentage, it isn't nearly as small as it should be...ZERO.

Answer 1

Aqua rose is right and America also receives foreign aid
Americans are regularly told by politicians and the media, that America is the world's most generous nation. This is one of the most conventional pieces of 'knowledgeable ignorance'. According to the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the US gave between $6 and $15 billion in foreign aid in the period between 1995 and 1999. In absolute terms, Japan gives more than the US, between $9 and $15 billion in the same period. But the absolute figures are less significant than the proportion of gross domestic product (GDP, or national wealth) that a country devotes to foreign aid. On that league table, the US ranks twenty-second of the 22 most developed nations. As former President Jimmy Carter commented: 'We are the stingiest nation of all'. Denmark is top of the table, giving 1.01% of GDP, while the US manages just 0.1%. The United Nations has long established the target of 0.7% GDP for development assistance, although only four countries actually achieve this: Denmark, 1.01%; Norway, 0.91%; the Netherlands, 0.79%; Sweden, 0.7%. Apart from being the least generous nation, the US is highly selective in who receives its aid. Over 50% of its aid budget is spent on middle-income countries in the Middle East, with Israel being the recipient of the largest single share"

Answer 2

The hypocrisy that the USA claims moral high but fails when the details of this claim are examined lead many to believe that the USA is ('as normal...') merely using its wealth to buy the moral high ground rather than being it. USA economic interests seem to be the only priority of the ethics of the USA. People are led to hate Americans: For not giving more to the people who genuinely need it, for economic bullying and aggression, and finally for not being critical of their own government and believing its propaganda. People are also driven to hate the USA as a whole for its wholesale economic aggression, hypocrisy, lies and power mongering even when it comes to charity
I think that the USA government intentionally manipulates other countries, especially poor ones, by strategic giving, and the USA government also manipulates its own people by boosting their egos and self-worth through delusions of moral greatness achieved through charity. It is nearly certainly not the case that the average USA citizen is less caring or less generous, but is a function of USA style capitalism that money is power, and morals are subservient to long term economic interests.

Answer 3

Non Military aid is far lower that most Americans think. to the best of my knowledge, it has not in many years if ever exceeded 1% of the budget
We are the largest exporter of weapons,and weapons systems.

2006 (in billions of dollars) 2006 percent of federal funds budget
Source: 41% Percent of Your 2006 Taxes Go to War, Committee on National Legislation, February 15, 2007

Current Military Spending 571.6 28%
Cost of Past Wars 263.5 13%
Total military percent 41%
Health Research & Services 393.5 19%
Responses to Poverty 241.0 12%
Interest on Non-Military Share of Federal Debt 211.5 10%
General Government 84.6 4%
Community & Economic Development 112.1 5%
Social Programs 97.7 5%
Science, Energy, & Environment 50.8 2%
Non-Military International Programs 29.8 1%

Answer 4

Good point. Now I suggest you work towards getting some politicians in office that will ACTUALLY STAND UP for America instead of taking money under the table to support who ever has the most money. We could start by lopping off ALL FOREIGN AID without any strings attached. Any country that received foreign aid from the US would be absolutely required to show the US at least the same respect that the US showed them AND to disrespect any country that disrespected the US or the US leaders.

Answer 5

Foreign nations should be thankful for the money the taxpayers of America give to them!

People are smart enough to realize that if the US gives them money.....then the US will want something in return.

Answer 6

Actually, according to gross income percentages. And wealth percentages.. America gives a far smaller percent of it's wealth than the majority of other countries.

Answer 7

I'm with you there 150%!!!! Some "person" asked a question about keeping the President here and called him a "scum bag" and a "criminal" and when I responded with outrage, she reported me and I had my answer deleted!!! And there were Americans who agreed with her!!! It's time that we got behind our country and if those people have got a problem with the US then they can ask Chavez for aide.

Answer 8

Because we don't seem to get it!!! The liberals are brain washing us into the mindset of the more we give out the more we will be loved

Answer 9

I think foreign aid is one of the hardest things to understand why our government does. If you get any good resources on this please send them to me.