Reply #84: I am turned off by those arguments...

[LeahMira]

How About:
- we make U.S. Children happy in properly built schools with properly paid teachers..
- We help some of the newly unemployed in the U.S.A.
- We put some of that money to wards job creating projects...
- We help some of those bilked out of their retirement in 401 Scandals

I'm turned off mainly because they're all about "me, me, me."

Certainly our government has a responsibility to provide for the common good of its own citizens, and I'll even give you the point that this responsibility takes precedence. Still, we are the wealthiest nation in the world, with resources far surpassing anything found elsewhere on the planet. It is absolutely incumbent upon our government to give a good bit of what we have to improve the quality of life throughout the world.

The pResident received applause for his proposal to give money to nations in Africa for HIV/AIDS prevention, yet my understanding is that he apparently offered no funding to back that proposal. What's with that? This country should be taking a leadership role in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

We sit here typing away on computers and assuming that the internet is available to just about anyone in the world, yet most of the world's peoples have never even used a telephone, and most of them live over 100 miles from the nearest phone.


I'm getting tired of hearing how much better we could use the resources that we are pouring into the senseless "war on terror" if only we could spend that money on ourselves. Sure, there are things here at home that need tweaking... our health care system comes to mind right away... but focusing only on how WE could use that extra money just plays into the insane greed that powers the entire capitalist system.

With all our problems, we in the U.S. have it far better than most people. Maybe once the rest of the world has a start at catching up, maybe then we can start thinking about a few goodies we'd like for ourselves.