Why are we spending Trillions of dollars on iPods and cellphones when our fellow americans need help?
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How about all the money we spend on foreign aid?\nHow about home-aid, for more Kool-aid.\nPersonally, I'm broke.
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The US states spends all that money on the space program, then when a disaster hits within the nation, there is "no money" to help the people.  Something is wrong with that picture.
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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.
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We need to allot more tax money to care for them. And I don't mean to give money to them. Our government agencies need to see that they get food, shelter,clothes and help in finding a job. It is a shame that we spend so much money on other countries and not enough on our own people. I know that we have and will always have people that will bum money, cause they are too sorry to work, but there is also people that are sick in the head or for some reasons out of their control they are down on their luck. We need people that work at the shelters to be able to figure out who is needy and who is not.
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Because US is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. People are living a good life compare to the rest of the world. They have education, health care, basic services, advance technology, a largely advanced military, free media, etc.\n\nYes, the US govt is borrowing lots of money, but consumer spending is unbelievable. One of the richest countries in the world, and yet lack of education in finance. Most of these people don't know how to save.\n\nIn economical sense, the value of the dollar is constantly fluctuating. You need to understand Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy to understand it.
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Most Americans don't give a shit about issues affecting them and the other members of society but damn it if you took away our Internet, movies, television, and other media then we would raise some serious Hell.\n\nYou can make fun of Jesus and God (see South Park), you can allow a innocent poor people to go to prison for shit they didn't do. We can allow many people (mostly children) that cannot afford health care to die. We can let an asshole run the White House and the US Ecomony into the ground but...don'take away our iPods! \n\nIt's a shame that we can only consume and not give back to the world we live in. It sad that the most powerful nation on the planet allows its own children to go starve and the poor and powerless to suffer. \n\nMaybe if info-tainment was pushed like it is then America would be a better place and we could have real world peace and not a WAR (prentending) to make peace!\n\nPlease see my newest question...thanks
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LIKE the question! I am not sure why when u call them on the way they are it isnt appreciated. Thats what they are trying to do get it for free....i say get 2 jobs and put yourself though school! This country wouldnt be in the kind of debt were in if we would all take charge of our own lives.......dont get me started LOL
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I am poor and worked hard all my life.  Now retired, can't get Medicaid or Medicare because I retired at 62 (after working for 46 years), adopted my grandson because his Mom is ill and Dad deserted them, can't get dental care for him because Medicaid won't pay dentists enough in this great state of Missouri, have $787 a month to live on.  Yet illegals can come in and get all kinds of help. Boy, does the gov't have their priorities screwed up.\n\nMa_isa, what makes you think anyone is joking? And I hardly think spending $10 or $15 a month for the internet is  living large. I personally bought my computer out of my tax refund four years ago while I was still working, before I adopted my grandson. Illegals get all kinds of stuff just handed to them without having to earn any of it. So, my dear, go suck a lemon.\n\nDe_rak, the reason you don't get it is because the illegals do. lol. (Yes, I knew what you meant.  Just couldn't resist the play on words there.)
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My problem is that we live in the only country in the world who DOES NOT NEED ANY BODY'S HELP. We have it all. Yet, a little country like Japan who has no natural resources but for fishing industry, is beating us in the economy by 26.64%\nIt is not how much money you make, but how much money you save. How in a household, like that in a country too. If we pay so much in taxes of every kind, that this country would be a really model in every way if the money was put back in it. why do we have to spend all of it on stupid wars. If we did not go to war for only 5 years, we would have so much money, we could create jobs for 70% of all the army. This is a horrible the way we are.\nSwitzerland, Australia, all are doing better than us, and those are the ones that never go to wars. I hope our next president is a pacifist.
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You said you wanted serious answers, so I'll take you at your word. It's not nearly as bad as you think. Cheer up.\n\nYes, America owes trillions. But please remember three points:\n\n1. The vast majority of that debt is not owed to foreign nations. Over two-thirds of it is owed to the American people themselves. Everyone American who purchases US Savings Bonds or Treasury Bonds (T-Bills) is purchasing a portion of that debt.\n\n2. The American economy is worth approximately 3 trillion dollars a year. That means the US has about a two-to-one debt ratio. Putting that in micro-economic terms, it's the equivalent of someone who brings in 100k a year, and whose only debt is a 200k mortgage. Any economist would tell you that that person is doing very well indeed. Most people's debt ratio is far higher.\n\n3. The US has the lowest debt ratio of any industrialized country. No other country in europe or anyplace else has that little debt relative to the size of its economy.\n\nAs to your comments about the cost of the war. Yes, for now it's not cheap. But this is not a permanent expense. In a few years it will go away. So in the short term -- you're right -- it calls for a little belt tightening; but in the long run, it's not much to worry about.\n\nAlso, the amount of the budget consumed by all of the social-welfare programs of the US (minus Medicare and Social Security) amounts to no more than 3% of the annual budget. everyone always thinks its more; but seriously, it's a very small percentage. In Britain, social welfare costs are about 18% of the total budget. In France, about 22%; and I could go on, but I think you get my point.\n\nAs to your comments about trade. Actually, people are lining up to trade with America. America leads the world in Computer hardware and software sales. The agricultural industries of America sell to the world. While America has lost manufacturing jobs over the years -- this is not to worry, as America has transformed itself into the first Post-Industrial society, providing services to clients around the world that earn American companies hundreds of billions every year.\n\nAnd finally, yes, oil is a problem. But it's not just America's problem, it's a problem for everyone else as well. The greatest challenge of this century is going to find the substitute for the world's addiction to petrolium. But here's the good news. Because America has one of the strongest economies on earth, It's Americans who will have the greatest resources to come up with an answer. And that answer having been been found, will make Americans even better off tomorrow.\n\nDon't believe all the bad news you hear on the news. Remember, people in the media want ratings points. And they don't get viewers by concentrating on good news -- only bad. There's plenty of good news out there. Trust me.\n\nHope this answer helps. Cheers, mate.
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If you got a job you wouldn't need to get state handouts!\nI suppose we the tax payer are paying for your internet conection and computer too.
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The US loves to spend the money of its hardworking residents on worthless imports like yourself. I bet the government would give you money just to live here, probably enough to live in a penthouse apartment and then set you up in a law practice after you graduate and then you and your friends could take all your profit buy a plane and kill thousands of the people who funded your stay here... All this without even speaking English... DAM ain't we great
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do you live in the USA? well i think that we should take care of our own first unlike what we currently do! we need to stop spending billions upon billions of American dollars over seas and our space projects and take care of home first ..... then worry about everything else..... the USA should not have a homless population muchless starving familes!
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The American government doesn't help half as much as they'd have you think they do.\n\nSome transnational businesses are in the habit of helping others, but only if there's a profit to be had.\n\nHelp isn't free, it always comes with a price.
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Me 2 What star said is correct!! We are on a slippery slope ! The government has been keeping track of us for a long time!Now they track our money [debit cards, credit cards] there is so little cash used these days they can and do track it also. Our phones our computers stroke for stroke!
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In many cases it is important to find an answer to a problem but we are overdoing it. We have gone hog wild on this.\n\nGovm't spending is way out of hand. Our total taxation is over 51% and climbing. \n\nWe need NASA to keep pace with science and world progress. \n\nOur govm't was designed to protect the people not subsidize them which means our welfare programs have gone too far. \n\nThe fruit fly study was for the benefit of the orchardists.
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I love you for this.\n\nYou see we have to reduce our wants, settle for whatever is good for us, not whatever is best -Best is the enemy of good.\n\nWe are driven so hard by our own desires and wants that we fail to see where we are heading or what are we doing to those who matter most.\n\nJust imagine, around twenty years ago we could do without a cell phone but today it is a necassity and we are compelled to pay the bills by adding yet another expense to our budget. This in turn makes us work longer hours, may be accomodate this payment within our budgets. One more item to worry about.\n\nIf we look around us, there could be anumber of things that we could do without but we just don't for any reason. Our desires run us, not us running our desires.\n\nThis is a subject for a much detailed discussion, but am glad there is someone who at least realizes the trade off that we are making.