State of the US…
Posted: February 21st, 2010 | Author: Don | Filed under: Misc, Politics, Religion, Wonder | Tags: adoption, airforce, America, Army, christian, drugs, eating, food, homeless, hunger, isolationist, mentally ill, military, Missionaries, money, Nations, Obama, President, United States, US | 3 Comments »Over the last few years, I have felt more and more that the US needs to step back from the world to an extent and look at itself a little closer. We are spread out all over the world in other nation’s business, but we are not taking care of our own business here in the US.
As a nation we appear to be more worried about the sick, hungry and homeless around the world, and less so with those here in the US. We have many many people here in the US that are without work, hungry and homeless that we should be taking care of. We, as individuals and as a nation, tend to send a ton of money to other nations to help their homeless, hungry and those without work. I have no problem with helping others, and I highly recommend helping anyone we can, anywhere, but why are we forgetting our home front? Can’t a good portion of that money stay here and fix our own ailments?
Part of the reason we have so many homeless and hungry people here in the US is the cost of pretty much everything. Due to our
As our military continues to shrink, we continue to send troops to nations all over the world. We have our presence all over the world, and we try to control those areas any way we can. While our people are in these places, in many cases, dangerously so, we have many issues going on here in the US that require attention. Let’s bring our troops home, strengthen our boarders to stop attacks on our great nation, and work on ourselves instead of worrying about other nations, unless they, as a whole nation call us for help, and agree to foot the bill for us coming over to help. If a nation wants us there to help, let’s go to a process where they pay us to do so. And let’s only go if they ask us to come, not if we feel that we need to help them out to become more like us. (Being more like us is not always a good thing….)
The reason we have so many people out of work and homeless is the cost of pretty much everything in the US is too high. This is because each person wants to make more money than we probably should make. We need to look at the cost of making things, lower our wages (or freeze them were they are now), which will help in reducing the cost of producing new things. We need to then look at the cost of medical care. And not the way the President is currently doing it…. I also think that we could very much go back to more barter sales. They are there now, but it could grow!!
Many of the Christian Churches here in the US are busy sending their “Missionaries” to other nations in order to bring more people into their faith. I agree with the concept, very much… But I say we have MANY people in the US that need to hear the Word as well. Why are we sending our resources overseas, when there are many people in this nation that need us as well? What is a better way to taking the Word overseas is to train people from that Nation here, in the US, and then let them go back home and spread the Word to their people “their” way! Makes a lot more sense to me to go this way…
Many people are going overseas to adopt infants and small children. We have many, many kids in the system here in the US that are very much in the need of being adopted by a loving, caring family. We are we going overseas and taking kids from their heritage when we should be helping these kids locally? Yes, I know that the laws here in the US make it very hard to do so here in the US. But that can be fixed. We need to look at these laws and make it so that adoptions can happen in the US in a better manner, and with a bit of an easier path.
While I am not 100% behind bringing everyone home and locking down the boarders and totally closing in on ourselves, as I think International trade is important, but I do think we need to put most of our focus on US and not on other nations… Let’s regrow our nation into a strong, united nation and get all of us in the US in valid housing, be it hospitals, apartments, homes, etc, being feed daily, and cared for by the right people. Let us dig into why people feel the need to do drugs, as from where I sit right now, that is a key problem here in the US. We need to clear up the drug trafficking, and the only way to do that is to stop the users from using it, and to do that, we need to get a strong grip on why they do the drugs, and then snip that need…
Ok, sorry for the rambling and soapboxing. Had to get it off my chest… 
I am Chinese .
“We have many, many kids in the system here in the US that are very much in the need of being adopted by a loving, caring family. We are we going overseas and taking kids from their heritage when we should be helping these kids locally?”
I am agree with your advice.
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To some extent I agree with you. I do feel like we need to do more for people that live within our borders because we have many of the same issues that we are trying to prevent in other countries. However, I do feel that this can be done without abandoning relief efforts in other areas. I’m all for helping people that need help regardless of where they are from.
I think a lot of the problems stem from the fact that people view homeless people within our country differently from homeless people in other nations. America is viewed as a land of opportunity. If you are struggling here, people think that you must have done something wrong or made a bad choice. People also tend to think that hard work and dedication are enough to get anyone back on their feet here. In other countries, we see their homeless and think they had no choice and that there are limited resources for them to get back on their feet even if they had tried.
Giving to people in other nations is seen as charity, but giving to people within the country is often seen as a free handout. Before we focus more on giving within our country, we need to find out exactly what it means to give.
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Yin, thanks for stopping by, hope you continue to check me out here.
Slappy, I agree that we can and should help in relief efforts abroad, as we can, after helping those locally first, or concurrently. I agree with you that the US perception that if a person is down in the dumps here in the US it is their fault and not outside influences. In my travels all over the world, I see that same issue local to that area as well, and the locals tend not to help the homeless, so it is a global problem. In many of those instances the locals don’t have enough to help outsiders either.
I can’t argue with your last statement either… Something we should definitely look at!
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