Why are people so worried about poverty in other countries when we have so much in our own?

Question

We have homeless people living less than a mile away from the White House. But yet we want to go and save all the other countries people. Wouldn't it be better to use our resources to help our own, then try to help everyone else? How can I help someone in need when I am in need as well?

Answer 1

yes this is true. it makes me think of a bible verse that says... how can you help remove a speck of dirt from a friends eye when you have a log stuck in your own eye. you must first remove the log from your own eye and then you can see to help with the speck in your friends eye. or something like that, but it makes perfect sence.

Answer 2

Poverty in the US is generally cause by the person on drugs or other things like that (yes there are some that just fall on hard times), but theres alot more help financially for them through our government and charity organizations. In other 3rd world countries there is nothing to fall back on.

Answer 3

You can't compare a homeless person in an urban US city to the poverty of African nations, where thousands of people die a day from lack of water or food, or from diseases that have long since been exterminated in the developed world. The suffering in other nations is beyond any sort of comparison to the poverty in the US.

Answer 4

Subliminal Illuminati Jew mind control tells citizens that our unemployed are no good scum, and that we should act accordingly and hire illegals instead.

Why else would Americans act so twisted towards their own unfortunate? Think about it.

Answer 5

There is a saying that sometimes people can't smell flowers in their own front yard!

Answer 6

If Bush and his corporate friends have their way, we will all be making $ 1/hr. and foreign aid will have to come to an end.

Answer 7

Right on.

Answer 8

It is saying Humanisam.