Over 5,000 People Will Die From Malaria Today While Americans Say How Rough Their Own Lives Are?

Question

Do you think other people in the world are impressed when Americans tell each other how rough life is and how they need more handouts from the government?

What do you think, Libs?

Is it more important to ask for more handouts or to help the truly needy in the world? Do you teach your kids that the truly needy are important?

Answer 1

I never say my life is rough - I'm very fortunate and I damned well know it!

But I agree - our idea of poor in America is vastly different from poor in most countries. I agree with you - people need to quit whining and expecting others to take care of them.

Answer 2

The libs would give you some line about Bush.
The truth is that if the world could still use DDT and this time use it right we could drop the deaths from Malaria to all most zero. But God know we would not want to hurt some bird by saving a few million poor, lowly and uneducated people.

Answer 3

You're well on your way to understanding the relativity of happiness and privilege.

In some cultures, finding $5 is like winning the lottery.

Personally, I almost feel worse for the Americans that ARE so spoiled. Feeling happy and lucky will be much more unlikely for them in the future. Life's simple pleasures and fortunes are probably overlooked on a daily basis. How miserably empty must that be?

Answer 4

I understand the point you are trying to make and it certainly is valid. However, I don't think every American feels like they have a rough life. I think you're right in that we should appreciate everything we DO have and not whine about how tough we have it. I am very thankful to live in a country like America. I know from experience that things could be a thousand times worse.

Answer 5

They will also die from malnutrition and starvation.
Are you looking to give the hungry of the world food, or just complain about the poor in this country?
Why even bother? I haven't seen anyone ask for handouts outside of a few trolls looking for idiots to give them money on Answers. A few years back welfare stopped paying for additional babies and work for welfare was instituted. The welfare queen is a distant memory. Why are you beating such a dead horse? If the Republican congress couldn't write a good enough law about welfare then complaints should have been heard then.

Answer 6

Difficult is a relative term, and not all Americans, not even most I don't think, are clamoring for handouts from the government. However, yes, you are right, people in developing countries have a much more difficult life than people in the US. I don't know to whom that will exactly be news however.

Answer 7

SAM I understand we as American are very bless my problem goes back when I was in Catholic school(I am still a devote Catholic)the priest and nun would tell us about this and the priest would go on 5 vacation a year have a new car and live in ahouse the parish had for them the nun would not come back the next year because thy were pageant and tell us about morals I know were bless but people like this that made me feel guilty I guess I got numb

Answer 8

My research group has found a very promising treatment for malaria but can't get it funded (tried for years from the UN to CDC to the Gates Foundation, no luck), we think because it would be too cheap for pharmaceutical companies to make money from (its a cheap herbacide with an LD50 ~ that of NaCl).

Answer 9

Nope. I was just on the USA Today forums about the poverty level in this country and this one guy said that our poverty level is basically wealthy compared to those in the third world countries that dig through trash to obtain food and walk around naked because they can't afford any clothes.

America's poor live in apartments, have cable, get food stamps and are fatter than ever.

Answer 10

Handouts are not really the issue, but I do agree that Americans can't really appreciate how bad people have it in other countries.