I am disgusted with all of this.
Here we are in America fighting to get a health care plan and we are just giving free medical care and supplies away for free to other Countries, but we can't do it for our own??? Anybody have a problem with this? I do! Our National debt is at an all time high; right along with unemployment. My Lord, does anybody listen to our problems. They say we are in a depression. Yet, we are donating milllions of money, medical supplies, and free health care to other countries, but are NOT willing to do the same for our people. When will the madness stop? Where was other countries when hurricane Katrina hit??? No where!!! But, when another nation needs are help we go running. Here I am starting a donation program it's called HELP AMERICA! You may donate by putting your money into my paypal account. What no donations? Why? Because you don't trust me to use the money in the way I said I would. What a shock! Did anybody read about how much money these countries got and how much of it went to their government, NOT the poor vivtims. Does anybody remember the Salvation Army Scandal a few years back. When will the people of America open their eye's and see the truth.
Please respond to this post! Please, show me where I am wrong.
I NEED to be wrong on this issue, because at this point there is no hope for America and moving to another country sounds WAY better than being an American right now!
Chili 2010 Everybody helps!
America. Where was our help?----->
Sorry Jess, you're not wrong. I wish you were and I do think it's important to help other countries, heck I did a blog about it, but no one ever DOES help us do they? Medical care without insurance, forget it. Food without a job, good luck. Sympathy from the government in hard times...it would be easier to pull quarters out of your nose.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm with Jess. No one sends help to the U.S. when something happens here. And not to mention all the money we send to other countries. If all that money we send over there would stay here in the U.S. then there might not be a deficit, millions unemployed, and people losing things that they worked hard for.
ReplyDeleteTake care of your own first!!!!!
Im with you on this one Jess. Here we are trying to help another country right.....well take a good look at our country....we have so many people here in the US that need money and health care because they cant afford it for their families...but here the US is handing it out like its candy. I dont think that this is right at all...I understand that we have to help others too, but don't you think we need to help ourselves first and make sure that we are able enough to help them in return...I mean....look we cant take care of ourselves in the US so I wonder what our help to them in Chille is like.
ReplyDeleteJessica, being an American is a privilege and don't you forget it! However, this privilege comes with responsibilities and some of them aren't so pleasant. It's hard to always be giving and giving, and yet never getting. Yet, I agree that we need to take care of ourselves. How are we to continue to help others if we will not help ourselves? Somehow, it seems like this is someone's plan to weaken us. We are the "patsy", the "easy touch" of the international community. And why? I think it's because we are indeed a Christian nation, regardless of what Barry says. That causes us to have a soft spot for those in need. Too bad that others cannot return the favor. But that's the hard part of acting out in love; it doesn't always come back.
ReplyDeleteIt's so much easier to convince people to give money to strangers in need than it is to convince them that the government has the right and responsibility to take money that they worked hard for out of their pockets to give to those who don't work for it in the guise of "the public good," whether that happens to be welfare, universal preschool, universal socialized medicine, or what have you.
ReplyDeleteGulf Port, Mississippi, and many parts of Texas were hit just as hard by Hurricane Katrina. They've recovered, far better than New Orleans. I suspect they've recovered because they buckled down and got to work themselves rather than waiting on the government to help them.
Americans are the most generous people in the world, so long as we're not forced into that generosity by a government that thinks it knows what's best for each individual better than the individual does. We're also one of the most "git'er'done" societies in the entire world--ready to pitch in and *do* things. Those two things right there are what makes me proud to be an American.