why does this goverment want to help all over the world, but can't help the poor here?

Question

welfare is dysfunctional, homeless all over each city -----------I KNOW WE CAN HELP, BUTS NOT OUR JOB TO SAVE ALL OTHER COUNTRIES. ----TAKE CARE OF AMERICANS FIRST!!!!!!!

I am not picking on democrats or republicans---each are to blame equally

Answer 1

Great question and I fully agree that both parties are to blame as they are both corrupt. The real answer to your question is shown in the following independent film that is spreading throughout the world like a wild fire:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331&q=zeitgeist+movie&total=380&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

Tell me what you think

Peace

Answer 2

This has to be the Best Question of the Day! Exactly why are they outsourcing jobs over seas, as more and more Qualified and Educated Americans are put out of work, especially Veterans of the military and returning soldiers?

More Homelessness is on the rise and Not one thing is being done. No American should be hungry, unemployed or begging for welfare, unemployment or social security if they need it! It's time the system is overhauled and investigated.

Answer 3

While the Neocons make a mockery of global justice with their foreign policy, the Bush Doctrine has also enabled them to begin sweeping away the gains made by domestic forces for social justice during the Twentieth Century. Whether one believes that these achievements were reached with the cooperation of men like FDR and LBJ, or that these leaders simply acquiesced to the pressure of labor and civil rights movements, America made great strides toward equality and justice through social programs and reforms like Social Security, Minimum Wage laws, the Voting Rights Act, school desegregation, Medicare, Medicaid, the advancement of women's rights, environmental laws, and consumer protection laws. By spending $600 billion per year on programs related to their precious military industrial complex (consider that $600 billion represents 60% of the world's total annual military expenditures of $1 trillion and that the US has only 5% of the population), deepening the federal deficit to an unconscionable $7.5 trillion, and utilizing shameless propaganda to convince the minions of legalistic Christian sects and many undereducated Americans to act in a self-defeating way by embracing an agenda of Social Darwinism and global conquest, the Neocons have ensured serious setbacks to social justice in the United States.

Answer 4

Because nothing your doing around the world is about purely helping people. The vast majority of US aid is in the form of military aid which in turn has to be spent buying US arms and the largest recipients of that are Israel and Egypt.
The money for AIDS in Africa is to buy from US big Pharma at higher prices than generic equivalents. Everything that is done in the name of US aid is in some way or another to facilitate US corporate interests.
HERE IS A GOOD EXAMPLE:
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fnation%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1653360%2C00.html%3Fxid%3Drss-topstories

Answer 5

with unemployment at low levels already, what 'help' do you have in mind?

{btw, it would help if you'd back keeping illegals out of the work force -- wages would rise for low skill Americans.}


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as an employer (now retired), I can tell you up front that I had no desire to 'hire' people who can't or won't show up for work and do so clean, ready to work, and sober. 9 days out of 10 isn't good enough -- my customers wanted to be served any time they care to come in, not when my employees feel like coming to work this day.

If that meant that I didn't ask too many questions of my workers ... but they showed up every day ready to work; I kept 'em on.

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maybe you too have this same irrational desire as a customer?


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Answer 6

you cant squeeze oil or oil for food contracts from poor people. even if we spend $3billion a month in iraq at the moment we make lots of money from exchanging cheap oil for power plants and huge construction projects. all i really want actually is national healthcare for everyone who works. doesn´t matter if your dying or got a cut. as long as you work you can get all the treatment you deserve and need no matter what the cost.

Answer 7

I've been asking that question for 10 years.

Quit giving money to people and countries who don't like us, anyway. It isn't our responsibility to take care of anyone else.

Answer 8

I completely agree with you. We give billions per year to Israel. How about putting that money to good use, helping the people of New Orleans for instance. How about the billions per year that gets thrown away south of our border. How about putting that to health care for children.

Answer 9

Most of the poor in this country won't help themselves

Answer 10

Good question.