Why is it that the government is off wasting tax dollars on midlle eastern countries when we have our problems
339960
You can make a list a mile long.......And you'd be 99% right, threr isn't but one answer.....OIL!!!!
693439
If the country was being run like it should be, we shouldn't have anyone here in the US living in poverty.  \n\nSadly even the minimum wage is a "poverty wage".  You can work 40 hours a week and work all 52 weeks a year, and you would still be considered living in "poverty".\n\nSo to answer your question:  Yes, the government is wasting our tax dollars and making impractical decisions.\n\nIf they were running the country properly, we wouldn't have to have a need for welfare, or be hated by more people than ever from other countries (war issue).
283708
Because it's just an election year distraction for the idiot masses.  It keeps them from having to discuss the trade deficit, our massive debt or the ongoing war.  They just dangle this garbage out there for the dumbest in our society to have something to angry about.  Nothing will really happen with it.  It's just a distraction for the easily distracted.
660010
Because there r stupid people out there. If anything they help us. They still pay taxes. They are doing what they need to.
712182
This may come as a shock for many people there in US, but US is not the world, its only a small part of it.\n\nIts your government we certainly don't like, they are really dumb, making stupid wars all over, don't care for their own people unless they have lots of money, they don't care about pollution and you are doing many things above your own know how and technology.\nThen shit happens too often and people get killed even.\n\nFor the rest, most of you are nice people, but don't sell your God so much, if they need it, they can find it themselves, don't show the known way, it makes us go in different direction anyway.
437104
There are alot of people that that think the country is in trouble, I am sure that even some of the people in congress knows that we are. We have a president that is trying to take power away from the other branch's We have a stupid war that we are involved in and people around the world hate us as a county. The economy is in a shambles and it is ok to ignore out own peoples needs to spend trillions over seas. If that isn't trouble I wonder what is. Remember this though the American people as a whole are good people and we will survive yes we will survive.
456298
Because our government failed you.
991350
Because our government is full of politicians who are experts at wasting taxpayer funds.  Their irresponsible spending and total lack of control over these ever-expanding entitlement programs will soon bring this country to its knees.  \n\nThey just don't care about the long term interests of this country.  These useless political hacks will be out of office and will pass this issue on to being someone else's problem.  \n\nIt is indicative of typical D.C. mismanagement and waste.
919281
Yes.  And there are too many reasons to list.  But a few of them are.....free medical care, free education, and no taxes for illegal aliens; welfare for deadbeats; and years and years of handouts to other countries who never paid us back.  Too many people use the war in Iraq as a reason, but that comes out of the defense funds which were already there.
1069044
Yes, because Americans have a short memory.  When something like that first happens, it's fresh in peoples minds so they feel compelled to do something about it.  But as times passes, people have their own problems to deal with so that leaves very little room for other problems.  Plus, people assume that the government is doing something about it and alot of people think they are only one person, how could they help.
309391
Because Isreal is a free State. The American government is working on ways to produce energy so that we no longer have to rely on middle eastern oil.
388054
coz they dont pay taxes and if u help them and neglect the people who do pay taes then even they will stop paying
702992
That's just it, though, we're not. What we ARE is too gullible, idly standing there while we get sent on the Mother Of All Guilt Trips by this or that organization for the advancement of whatever they feel like advancing this week. To add insult to injury, part of the taxes we pay goes to promote all of this. This is, of course, all in the name of 'civil rights'. \n\nMy point remains that if America's so evil, then whatinhell are we doing sending billions in aid around the world, trying to help other countries fix their 'bad'? What's up with that? If we're going to be really evil, then let's just keep all the money for ourselves! Instead of letting foreign countries drill sideways into our collective wallets, why not just pull the plug on ANY foreign aid, period? \n\nTruth be known, if not for decades of humanitarianism, there's a lot of countries around the world that certainly wouldn't be as well-off today as they are. \n\nMy question is, what happens when America goes broke? Game over, end of story, welfare check bounces, lights off, the whole trip. Then what? End of the fairytale...then what'll they do? It'll be back to rock soup and candlelight shadow-shows on the wall, and you're making your own candles for that. It's been barely 8 decades since the Great Depression...stock market crash and so forth...wild stock speculation, bank runs, it could get ugly again...and uglER, considering that there's 3 times as many people as back then.  But yeah, america's the devil etc etc etc ...
62416
People in the middle east are loving to all nations and love all human kinds. The only problem they have is the governments, people hate governments not the people. And the hate of government is because of bad policies western governments have had towards the mid east
570728
good question, I think our tax dollars are seriously being spent incorrectly..
280847
Tax money isn't being spent, it's being pi$$ed away. How many hundred of billions of the money we pay into the US government are being thrown away in a country that, before we attacked it, had little or nothing to do with America or it's security? How are the 80 billion dollars in tax breaks to the oil companies going to help the average American? How is the 3-5 billion dollars we give to Israel every year (Israel, by the way, is the 6th richest country in the world) helping the average American? Taxation is equal to theft - the taking of money and property by force. While I have no problem with the US helping it's own and humanitarian aid to other countries, and gladly give my tax dollars, the fact that the government can't even work out a budget that is anywhere near balanced is despicable.
309659
Essentially it is because we are spending more.  We have become an expendible society.  Cars break we buy new a button breaks we buy a new shirt.  We do not make our own clothes now, we barely make our own food things cost more oil cost more, experience costs more.  The middle class has to try to keep up with the other middle class then in a recession it makes them poor and others rich depending on investments.  The goverments tax system also does not support the middle class only the lower income and the high end with exemptions.   There for our government, society, and economy do not support the middle class this has been this way for decades catch the phrase "rich get richer poor get poorer"  as well as the man shipping all our jobs overseas is laughing at the middle class all the way to the bank.  I hope to see our society actually vote a working middle class person in to office of several levels to turn arround the laws and tax breaks to help out the middle class.  I wait for that day.