The Socialistic Shit-Case

[MMI]

[QUOTE=Thorne;793436]

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Ah, yes. The country that does more to help people than any other. The country that led the fight to get relief into Myanmar during their recent calamity. The country that leaps to send searchers and doctors and workers to countries destroyed by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions

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Yes, you give so much. Much more than any other individual nation. But, by comparison to your wealth (however you measure it) so much less than many many other countries, and far far less than is needed. A poultice on a tumour.

[Thorne]

Yes, you give so much. Much more than any other individual nation. But, by comparison to your wealth (however you measure it) so much less than many many other countries, and far far less than is needed. A poultice on a tumour.

When I read comments like this I start to understand why so many Americans think we should withdraw from the international community and simply take care of our own.

This country is trillions of dollars in debt, far more debt than we can ever hope to repay. Yet, when a disaster strikes somewhere in the world, anywhere in the world, we are among the first to offer, and provide, aid in whatever form we can: food, medicine, rescue experts, anything that's needed. We don't ask who's going to pay, we don't put political restrictions on our help, we just do it.

And we don't expect the world to love us for it, or to give thanks for it. We don't want people to feel they owe us anything for it. All we ask is that we be respected for what we try to do. But the world seems to want us to do more. Why?

If I buy a meal for a starving man, sure it's only a temporary fix, "A poultice on a tumour" if you will, but it's one more meal than he would have had without me. And if her doesn't have the decency to at least say Thank You, I can live with that. But when he starts screaming at me and complaining about how much more I could do for him, how much more I have to work with, do you honestly believe I should do more? Should I take him home and give him a place to sleep? Give him my clothes? Maybe give him my car, so he won't have to walk so much? Where do I draw the line?

No, I would turn away and write him off as a bad job, but I'd be damned sure less willing to buy a meal for the next starving man I see! Or the next country that suffers a devastating earthquake, or is inundated by a flood, or has any number of other problems. Let them help themselves, I say.

And I would say that for the rest of the world. You don't have to love us. You don't have to admire us. But just a little bit of respect would be nice.