I am going to ask a very crass question. Why do folks feel compelled to help people in other countries when there are several kids/children starving in this country? Just curious.

Do we really think that when the world changes and we are poor, that there is going to be another nation in the world that will remember generous thing that Americans did and return the favor? I highly doubt this. You think folks in China are going to help us, folks in the Middle East, in Europe, in Asia? I seriously doubt anyone would give a hoots if we went under and have starving children here. In fact, several probably look forward to it.

So again, why are we helping out other people when we’re in trouble ourselves?

I understand the argument that we are all human and well also should help each other out all over the place, but one thing that bothers me is…. who really lended us a hand during Hurricane Katrina (besides Canada, aye ) or during 9/11…I don’t think there is anyone else in the world more generous than people here.

It’s like what the flight attendants say…Put your mask on first, then put on the mask of others….Dude, the planes going down, a lot of us aren’t wearing masks to be helping the other ones put on theirs.