Why are we giving BILLIONS of dollars of food to other countries..........?
599817
We arnt giving billions of dollars of food to other countries... .who told you this lie? Maybe hundreds of thousands and possibly even millions... but comeon billions?
756208
Because believe it or not, the welfare of other nations affects the US.  Imagine if one of the top nations with which the US did trade went into poverty.  Or if many of the nations that are in poverty today were to be taught how to use their resources.  In the latter case, America could gain a trading partner and more resources that might not have been readily available from the land of other already prospering nations.  It's also a humanitarian thing.  Some citizens in developed countries that have a good standard of living want to show other countries how they can acheive this, and provide said countries with the aid necessary to do so.  It's a good thing.
506222
what does any other country have to give to us? why do other countries have to "give" to us?
66064
Have you seen what the US gives out, for free?  No comparison!  Billions of dollars.  Do the math
344225
Yes this is true. We could have billions of money and still want more. People always want, want, want . They never think of the third world and be grateful for what you have even if it mightn't be alot compared to what others have
1162676
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!
1089101
No one is starving in the united states. We have food stamps, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, churches, canned food drives, welfare checks, and all sorts of other handouts. We also have the richest and most generous population on earth. Whomever is starving is a crack addict or is too lazy to beg the government for my money, or is making good money pretending to be poor and begging on the streets for booze money.\n\nI repeat: No one is starving in the United States.\n\nHowever, I agree with the premise that we send too much aid overseas, when that aid is stolen by aggressive governments who fund terrorism and butcher thier own people an buy weapons with the money sent for aid.
380177
We are spending way too much money on other countries and not enough helping our own people. There are many homeless and illiterate people in our own country who I would rather give my tax dollars to.
151597
The reason the US consumes a disproportionate share of the world's resources is not because we're wasteful, but simply because we have the biggest economy in the world.  Consider the fact that economies of scale also make the US economy one of the most EFFICIENT in the world, in terms of resource input per unit of economic output.\nThe fact that the American economy is so large and so efficient also has beneficial effects on other countries; in other words, we tend to spread the wealth.  Chances are that whatever is manufactured, grown, mined, or designed in the country where you live is exported to the US.\nFeel free to disparage the US and Americans all you please - we don't issue fatwas against everyone who hurts our feelings - but you cannot ignore the facts.\nIf you were to postulate that Americans are living beyond their means by running up incredible, unsustainable amounts of personal, corporate, and government debt, then I would completely agree with you.
1060129
Hey, it may be a good thing if there is another country out there that would support us once the USA is a third world nation due to the massive amount of people allowed or not allowed to migrate. After all we've supported everyone else for a very long time while our own citizens suffer from hunger and neglect so I suppose turn around would be fair. I'd like to sit on my a_s and have the 'good' working people of some far off land give me shelter, food and free medical care.
23692
This is my favorite type of question, so I'll answer with another question.  Why do we send billions overseas to help other countries when we have so many problems at home?  The real answer to this and many other questions like it is that we as a society let "our" elected officals make choices for us, that's why we are a Republic.  I wish we could have some kind of utopian country where we're a true democracy and the people voted on a budget that is proposed to them by their elected officals.  However it could never happen, we can even agree on Coke or Pepsi.
382552
because we give 3rd world countries tons of money all the time. we give isreal 100 million dollars a year for weapons protection and materials
724128
Why have you given this bunch to us? I don't understand your question.
336388
I agree with immigration , why If we have so much money can't we share it to help people that really need it even more than us
1122145
i agree in another country they throw flour to each other  i also think that they should send the food they are going to waste like that to asia or africa or any of those countries where you see that people doesn't have anything to eat or even clean water to drink. we should never forget that god gave us this earth and everything in it is for everybody. same with rich people i'm not saying all of them but the mayority, they are multi millionaire, why couldn't they take a few million dollars and send some food to those countries, instead you see them buying real expensive cars and houses, they only think about themselves nobody else.  We have to stop thinking about ourselves a little and start thinking about everybody else. lets say you and your children are starving wouldn't you like that at least somebody will give you food for your kids. put yourselves in that position. think of what those people have to go thru seeing their love ones die because they don't have nothing to eat.  seeing their own children die of diseases and starvation, and some of us that have everything we complaint  that is not enough . just think about it.
689476
Canada is one of the richest countries in the world so it should use that wealth to help poorer countries.  This should be done, not by handing out money but by Fair Trade.  The rich West keep poor countries poor by subsidizing their own crops and factories and forcing poor countries to let them in under cutting local prices, putting farmers out of business.  FAIR TRADE not Free Trade
313069
America is a consumerist nation. We are raised to buy buy buy, and food is something that needs to bought and therefor eaten so we can buy more.