Do you think the us should help other countries?

what do you realy think I think we should because we are a country of freedom and we should help all people around the world by giveing them freedom,medicen,food,vehicals but also should this country help familys that live out on the street also their should be health care for all

I think we should just keep to ourselves...I mean our country isnt exactly problem free now is it? I think once we fix our own problems...then yeah we can go ahead and help other countries...but again...what do I know?

well thats part of what makes america so great

I mean its a beautiful thing what america is 'giving back' to other countries but there are many problems here that I think should be addressed first.

hope my Opinion helped

We should because we're a Christian nation of great, kind-hearted people who have a very long history of helping, in numerous ways, those countries needing assistance - sometimes with little or no gratitude in return - we must keep in mind, Gov't is not the answer to all problems - we do help our own needy and certainly could do more - free health care sounds great but at what taxpayer cost is what I wonder...Take care !!

Well if they stopped giving aid to other countries, then they could probably afford free health care (without any tax increase) although if they stopped waging wars and giving weapons to isreal, they could probably afford the health care without tax increase too...

yeh the United States should help other countries.

It would be nice to see the US 'help' in more countries such as African countries where civil wars and civil unrest are resulting in many innocent deaths.

Countries that the US don't stand to gain anything from such as oil or other mineral wealth.

Once they start to do that, I will believe they are doing it for the right reasons.

I'm sorry but I don't compare 'people who live on the streets and free health care' on the same level as innocent families & children being wiped out by machete wielding thugs as is currently happening in some African countries.

If the US is a 'christian nation' why do they generally pick and chose who they assist based upon the material and mineral wealth of the country?

What does 'give a country freedom' mean, though? Yes, all wealthy and influential nations should help the poorer countries to develop healthcare and political/economic systems that allow them become independent and improve the lot of their people. But this does not mean that the wealthy nations should impose their own brand of 'freedom'.

flossheal - the voice of reason!

Communists own the patent on 'imposing' will.

Lol, you're right, Americans have never tried to impose their will on anyone else...

our great forefathers once said that foriegn involvement will be the end of this country. If you havn't noticed, it has crippled America

'our great forefathers once said that foriegn involvement will be the end of this country.'

Not exactly. What the forefathers warned about was getting entangled in European alliances, which at the time were very complex and constantly shifting. Many of the forefathers fully expected the United States to become more of a regional power as westward expansion continued, with the Western Hemisphere as our area of influence and involvement (see the Monroe Doctrine). Foreign policy back then was much different than it is now. Remember, the world was made up mostly of colonial empires, and things like foreign aid, humanitarian missions, and peacekeeping operations were a very long way off. I don't think the forefathers ever envisioned the US would be dealing with things like these.

I think the US can and should be involved in humanitarian aid and assisting certain countries with internal crises like famine, drought, disease, natural disasters, and occasionally, civil unrest. I do not hold the view that these things are 'bleeding us dry' and keeping us from spending money to fix problems here at home. Foreign aid is not a significant enough part of the budget to be responsible for that. The US already spends more money on domestic programs like education, health care and welfare than almost every nation in the developed world, so more money is not the answer to all our problems.

I have an idea. Why not let charities do charity, rather than government doing it.

'We should because we're a Christian nation of great, kind-hearted people who have a very long history of helping, in numerous ways, those countries needing assistance - '

Thank goodness we are a christian nation! Can you imagine what it would be like if we were a nation composed of more than ONE religion! What if 'other' religions stepped in and tried to be part of our christian nation! Utter Chaos!

And I believe there are very few times when our monetary 'generosity' towards other
nations has not had an ulterior motive!
To give without expecting anything in return is 'giving' in the true sense of the word.

Great post Trickynick

A 'Christian Nation'? How freakin' arrogant. Religion should have not have anything to do with the desire to do good. While most religious groups would support the idea of helping ohter nations, and I welcome that, but to say the reason we do it is because we are a 'chistian nation' (which we are not supposed to be) is proposterous. One does not need religion to tell themselves genocide is wrong and should be stopped. It is self evident.

thanks jimahl!

I'd be glad to:

We should because we're a Christian nation of great, kind-hearted people who have a very long history of helping, in numerous ways, those countries needing assistance - sometimes with little or no gratitude in return - we must keep in mind, Gov't is not the answer to all problems - we do help our own needy and certainly could do more - free health care sounds great but at what taxpayer cost is what I wonder...Take care !!

Health care is not going to cost taxpayers anymore than it does now. So you would rather pay twice as much for health care with the profits going to the ceos of insurance companies? If we truly has a single payer health care system, we would all be paying much less than we are now.

amblessed- your answers are intelligent and always faith based (I respect your beliefs) but here I must point out that your answer only helps to divide and exclude and quite honestly does not seem to be very christian. to exclude others from your 'christian' country based on religion (or anything else for that matter) is not what this country was founded on.
and does not sound like what He would preach.
you are trying to exclude large populations of religious and non-religious from the feeling that we are americans.
WE ARE ALL AMERICANS - NO MATTER RELIGION, RACE, or GENDER.

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