Why do Americans (on average) take so much and give so little?

Question

Hahaha. You all of course immediately think of giving and taking "money". But that's not my question... shows your blind faith (ignorance) of capitalism. booyah!

Answer 1

They don't know!!

Too many Americans have a warped view of the world and America
They think they pay high gas prices
Their idea of conservation is one in an SUV
They think they are charitable, unless you look at the percentages
They are concerned about their health, but not their neighbors kids
but they don't know, they are fed more BS than communist countries

Answer 2

A fallacy is a component of an argument that is demonstrably flawed in its logic or form, thus rendering the argument invalid in whole. In logical arguments, fallacies are either formal or informal. Because the validity of a deductive argument depends on its form, a formal fallacy is a deductive argument that has an invalid form, whereas an informal fallacy is any other invalid mode of reasoning whose flaw is not in the form of the argument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy - paragraph 1

Many questions, also known as complex question, presupposition, loaded question, "trick question", or plurium interrogationum (Latin, "of many questions"), is an informal fallacy. It is committed when someone asks a question that presupposes something that has not been proven or accepted by all the people involved. This fallacy is often used rhetorically, so that the question limits direct replies to those that serve the questioner's agenda. An example of this is the question "Are you still beating your wife?" Whether the respondent answers yes or no, he will admit to having a wife, and having beaten her at some time in the past. Thus, these facts are presupposed by the question, and if it has not been agreed upon by the speakers before, the question is improper, and the fallacy of many questions has been committed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_many_questions
paragraph 1

Your question is not only flawed, it is entirely incorrect. As people above me have stated, America as a nation that does a lot of giving and does not take from other countries.

If you are speaking in a cultural sense, in terms of individual people, then again, your argument/question is not valid, and you are making far to broad of a generalization.

Bottom line, you can't prove the claim you insinuate with this question, and bigotry is just plain disgusting.

Answer 3

Give so little? What are you talking about? America gives more to other countries in foreign aid than the rest of the world combined. Americans give more to charities than any other people on the planet. Give me a break. You can trace the top twenty charities to the U.S. Try asking this question to Bill Gates and Warren Buffet who between the two of them have given or will give 70 billion dollars to charities worldwide. You must be one of those anti-American bozos.

Answer 4

The US gave $22,239,000,000 in federal aid in 2006. I guess that's too little?

And that doesn't even count all the personal giving that Americans do. How many Americans spend time giving food, shelter, medical care to people in other countries?

Answer 5

Americans give more money to charities than any other country in the entire world

Answer 6

Oh you have got to be kidding.... I wish I had a button that could cut off all the aid we give to people around the world right now, so you would see just how much we give.

Answer 7

Well they say it's better to give than to receive...

So by taking...I'm just making them look good.


Man...I love myself.

Answer 8

I know a lot of Americans that give a lot.
Where are you from? I'm from America.

Answer 9

You should check your facts.No other countrys citizens give even close to what the U.S. citizens do to charities.

Answer 10

This is a dangerous generalization. I do not agree.