figfarmer figfarmer:
To think that someone would think that we would give anything to the people who are causing so much trouble in the world as they dedicate their resources to mayhem rather than bailing out the idiots who built their houses on a hurricaine prone flood plain. FLORIDA yet, the state where Georgie claims to have sealed his dubious electoral victory and where his brother is governer. I think this whole hurricaine thing is divine justice on the freaks.
For your information not that it matters the US federal government has already provided huge federal support to theses victims. in the forum of FEMA. The Red Cross and other PRIVATE such organizations, is the primary means upon which Americans do disaster relief not only here at home but around the world.
Americans are not a nation of government but of individuals! and those individuals are entitled, and indeed thou tax incentives induced into providing large parts of their income to a charity organization, of their choosing. Not forced, by big government!!
Yes we have and will continue to take care of our own, and we have a lot of natural disasters in the US, from hurricanes, in the south and east. to forest fires in the west. to earth quakes on the west coast. to Volcanic eruptions in Hawaii and actual a few other states. All of theses things, are taken care of not only by Federal and state agencies, but largely the private originations such as the red cross as well.
Charity is only meaningfully if it is not forced on people by government, but on the account of their own free will, and choices! And Americans have a lot of freewill and choices for charity, more so than Canadians if you included American private donations which like I said make up the bulk of US aid.
Also your contention that the US government doesn’t have the funds to deal with theses disasters because American action abroad. Show a serious misunderstanding and underestimating of your American neighbor to the south. Unlike Canada, the United States Government is making a lot of money, because the American economy is doing very well, when compared to Canada’s. Lets put it this way, Alberta is by far the most successful province in Canada, making a GDP % of about 40 thousand US dollars a person. Many in Canada attribute that, Alberta’s oil wealth, and while that has a lot to do with it, being so much higher than the Canadian average, about 31 thousand US dollars person with Alberta. That number is actual only right around or approaching US NATIONAL average of about 41 thousand dollars a person and claming. And most US states don’t have the huge Oil wealth advantage Alberta has, yet their still doing on average just as well. The point I’m trying to make here is, like Alberta compared with the rest of Canada, the US has a lot more money per person than Canada, and can therefore afford to do a lot more things. Regardless of the reason why Canada as a whole is doing so badly(Socialism!)
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