When are we as American Citizens gonna start taking care of the USA first?

Question

The BILLIONS of dollars sent to the countries all over the world, for aide (what all that entails). But we suffer inside our own boarders. I know that we have to be good citizens on the planet, but where does it stop? At this point in time we have done more than any other country times 10 for the outher countries, most of the world hates the US, but they come running with their hands out for you tax money and the technology/engineering that has been developed here.

Answer 1

I have pondered this question for YEARS. I've never been able to understand the rationale behind "OUR" feeding, clothing, sheltering, and creating jobs for those in foreign lands, when we have hundreds of thousands going without in our own country. I'm not against helping others in foreign lands, I'm all for sharing the wealth, but I'm a firm believer in "Charity begins at Home", and our "home" has been in need for long time. I think it's a huge slap in the face to Americans who can't afford some of the basic necessities of life, yet we send all kinds of aid around the world. Take care of home first, I say.

Answer 2

That 'aid' money is just dictator welfare for the most part. We prop up more totalitarian regimes around the world than even the Soviets did at the height of the Cold War.

This is a fact. We--actually the United States Government--will give money for 'aid' to anyone that is pro-What-ever-it-is-we-want-at-the-time, and most of that aid goes to nothing more than the dictator and/or ruling elites bank accounts.

Thus the aid in fact helps brutal regimes stay in power for longer than they would if we did not aid them. Take a look at all of Central America, Haiti, Dominican Republic, most of the African states, and you will find US tax dollars propping up repressive regimes and that is just the way that it is.

Or take for example(I remember this well from my childhood)Ethiopia. In the 80's they had a famine caused by the Ethiopian Army basically hording the food. So we send them food, and guess what the Army horded that too. Same with North Korea, they starve their own people on purpose use them for propaganda effect and then horde the food that is sent by the USA under cover of the UN. These are not rare of isolated events in fact they are the norm.

All of this said, I propose that we:

1. Stop attempting to feed the world. If they can not feed themselves they should not be breeding.
2. Stop giving aid to repressive regimes and let them sink or swim on their own.
3. Stop giving money to the United Nations.
4. Mind our own business and take care of our own problems inside our own Nation.
5. Deprogram ourselves of the notion that we 'owe' the 'world' anything what so ever. That is socialist tripe.

Answer 3

When we stop meddling in other countries' affairs. The United States gives more in volume than any other country...but we have the biggest economy on the planet. Other countries are more generous in comparison to GNP(gross national product). We have an annual GNP of over 10 trillion dollars, but in percentage giving we're near the bottom. We give roughly $160billion in foreign aid each year, so to put it in simple terms...for every $100dollars generated in this economy we donate roughly $0.16 cents. Not very impressive!!! Now I hope no blogger tries to add-up the billions going to Iraq as a form foreign aid...because that is imperialistic spending and it doesn't qualify...

Answer 4

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Answer 5

You've got to join the underground baby. There's whole new nation organizing right now. We do business together, plan together and support each other. We are gonna overthrown the clowns that stole the cheese from us sister. It's like 1968 all over again but this time we gonna to it right. we'll get in touch. You'll hear about us and what we're doing right in your neighborhood. We're gonna change this place for the better. Remember the saying "Revolutions don't start on TV" Right on Sister. Peace.

Answer 6

Follow the money, in this case the campaign contributions. Remember Johnny Huang, the Chinese lobbyist who contributed to Bill Clinton's reelection effort on behalf of the Chinese government? Our politicians have sold us out a LONG time ago, which is why they keep the aid ca$h flowing to other countries, in direct defiance of the American voters' wishes.

Answer 7

Most of the world hate us right now not because of the aid we give them but because of our foreign policy on other things, Iraq, GreenHouse gases, global climate, stem cell.

The world looks to America for leadership and when we don't play that role, it's always a disappointment.

it is not wasteful or neglecting your own people when we lend a helping hand to a nation in need. Saving or giving has never been because once has an abundance of something, saving is always about deferred expenditure. As a nation, we also have to savvy, when we give, we can always leverage on that later. We give to protect our interests too.

Answer 8

You can, give to charity. Plus we live in a country where we ALL have opportunities and can survive. Others countries around the world know what true poverty is, how selfish can you be?

Answer 9

well I am not from USA all the countries help each other some of them they offer less because that's how much they can offer and to the other country's there are people suffer but first come the people who suffer more and then as....

Answer 10

History tells us empires in decline will always push outward through war in a desperate attempt for resources, before desperately looking inward for solutions to - by then - unsolvable problems..