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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (5258)	3/6/2006 12:03:08 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

You have that right. "why should we continue to finance hatred?" My father told me a long time ago that I had better carefully consider my motive before helping any individual. If I expected any external reward, I would be disappointed. When you help another, it is only rewarding when you feel good about it without regard to external forces. More often aid recipients resent the aid giver. The US is resented by the recipients in almost every case. I don't believe that our foreign aid is helping many people that need help. It sure would help balance the budget. "There was a time in America, when the people were ready, willing and able to take care of themselves in every facet of life. Families were solid entities, and those that could, took care of those that couldn't. Those people were rugged individualists, and were the kind of people that built America into the best country in the world." The aid thing relates to responsibility. Government has taken over responsibility from individuals and small groups that used to accept it. I suspect that churches were the largest giver of aid a hundred years ago. If you saw a family starving, you did something to help them. Now you know they will receive food stamps, free medical care, and housing assistance. Why get involved? It is Kitty Genovese on a larger scale. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese) "The only way to fix the budget, is to plant the heels of our boots in the dirt, and start pulling back from the idiocy caused by presidents, and congress men, that play fuzz ball with tax payer's money." There is no adult supervision. A Balanced Budget Amendment and term limits might give our republic another fifty to hundred years before implosion becomes imminent.