USA, Why dont you care?

I am an Amercian, And you are right America does not give a damn becuase we have the most worlds dumbest president. I am from texas and he was our govenor. He did not care about texas either. All he cares is just being. One of the dixie chicks even said they were ashamed to be from texas cuase of bush. I just wish he would relize when other contries need help he does not care about that either So many of our troops have been killed over there my bf was over there he is now home from iraq. I hated the fact he had to go there to fight this stupid damn war. We got who we wanted so why not have this war over. what happens if he brings the draft back again he says he wont but he has lied to so many americans. We could fund asia instead of a war. I bet you he would help get his daughters bfs out of this war if they had to go over there. I am ashamed that I live in this country that does not care about anyone WHEN IS THIS WAR GOING TO BE OVER. I am an anti bush. He has not done a thing for this country except for this war. and this is how I feel on waht is going on in this country
we could fund asia and help those people get back on there feet instead of funding a war.
Nancy

nlgarrett if Kerry was elected as president I don’t think you would be sitting here and talking stuff but since Bush was re-elected he just saved your life didn’t you know that?
and again USA donated 35milion dollars was just a starts.

I’m going to come off rude, but I can’t take this much anymore. Please accept my apologies.

I’m not saying Bush is “smart” or anything, but who are you to talk? “most dumbest”? Maybe you should touch up on your grammar before calling someone “most dumbest” if you want to get a point across. By the way, what the heck is an “Amercian”?

What exactly does that mean?

The Dixie chicks are a great source of intelligence and well-through opinions as well.

Because 35 million dollars is “nothing at all,” correct?

You know what, we probably could. O

Maybe, but I think most presidents would do that, quietly of course.

Then leave, nobody is keeping you here.

It’s over when it’s over. I don’t agree with his exit strategy, but he did the right thing with the information provided to him. He prevented what could have been another terrorist attack, he is the first president to actually care about terrorism and do something.

Yeah, we know you are anti-Bush, because he is the “most dumbest.”

But is that our job? No, it’s not. We help out enough in this world, more than our economy should be able to handle.

The U.S doesn’t care. Right.

That’s why we just raised our aid from $35 million to $350 million.

Or maybe we don’t care because we have two Naval battlegroups going there, 9 C-130’s, and 40+ helicopters.

All of those numbers are likely to be upped when Colin Powell, Jeb Bush and various other members of the US government take a trip to the area to access the damage.

Oh, I almost forgot the outpouring of American companies, and it’s average citizen.

We don’t care at all.

about when we were establishimg new and exciting things in Space. What about when we made the first car, or the lightbulb, or the Scuba, or helped establish the UN and NATO. What about when my god damned city took in the King of Jordan to try and save his life? What about the countless Princes and Kings and Queens that just Rochester Minnesota has taken in and tried to help and cure and save? What about allowing people from other countries come and go to school within our boarders so they could go back and help their own countries? Yes we’re advanced. Yes we have resources. Yes we have technology. Yes we have money, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit by and let anyone tell me that “You’re not doing your fair share”!

We’ve made mistakes, but we’ve also made contributions to the world and it’s people! We have our own problems too, you know. I’m not sure if you guys have noticed, but the United States is in a bit of a divided state as of late. Yeah, you know that whole Bush/Gore thing, then the 9-11 thing, then the patriot act thing, then the Terrorism thing, the Al Quaida thing, the Saddam thing, the oil thing, the war thing, the reelection thing…yeah you guys remember all of that stuff? Well regardless of what you people think, the US is quite divided on most, if not all of those topics. I couldn’t find the final numbers, but when I went to bed, there was only Ohio left and Bush was up by 51%. So that in itself, coupled with the Mish Mash of 2000 Florida (Jeb Bush Whisperings) really divided the US, as well as the world I think. Every single one of those topics has been hard on the US, if not the world and has divided us greatly, so really we have our own problems as well, how can you expect someone you’ve always gone to for help to help you any longer when they have their own personal issues? But this country, regardless of its downfalls and it’s problems is still trying to do what it can for whoever they can! Yeah so we might have made a mess out of Iraq and Afghanistan, but instead of just running away and letting the next biggest tyranical ruler come into play, at least we’re sticking around (this time) and trying to clean up after ourselves.

(Sources: http://www.palestinemonitor.org/factsheet/US_Aid_to_Israel.htm

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0412/p07s01-wome.html

Now personally? I think Bush is a moron and is not the best person to lead the country. I think that he’s going to make a mess of the Supreme Court, that he’s too opinionated and biased towards the christian/catholic ideals and not even that, but he’s too anti many people just for the sake of his own beliefs. I had a bit more respect for Kerry for saying that “My personal beliefs may say that one thing (in this case it was abortion) is wrong, but I cannot dictate the entire country by my own personal beliefs. This wouldn’t be the land of the free or the home of the brave if I did that” Of course I’m paraphrasing, but that was the gist. He -respected- peoples right to choose and didn’t inflict his own personal beliefs on them. Sure, he wouldn’t have been the -best- choice, but really, politicians in general are never the “best choice”. They’re too self motivated in general. My Personal ideas? Saddam had to go, the patriot act is crap, the war has gone on too long, there’s been too much deception and underhandedness and the country is going to crap (but I’m not going to go and quote rappers of all people about it). The United States has the potential to be a magnificent country, of course, like all things perfect, it’s ruined by human nature. But through it all, we still “give a damn”.

Wow…so it seems the first half of my message was chopped off and fed to the fishes making most of my post look and sound moronic. Yay for me! *strikes a pose!* I’m awesome! I knew I should’ve saved it…it was a good rant too *sigh* darnit all.
Anyway, to catch you up it went something like this.

Before I get anywhere, I have to say that I am not the average United States Citizen (I will refrain from saying American since N8r has made it obvious that he doesn’t prefere that terminology since Canada is technically in North America as well) and my ideas and such tend to be hair brained, unpopular and not the norm in general, but I’ll try and be using of the proper grammar and not be talking like the most stupidest pr3zid3n7 that we are of the having. Blah blah blah, I’ve read all the posts, yadda yadda yadda, whatever.

…on second thought, I don’t feel like restating it all, let’s just say that overall, People look for someone to look to, whether that means to help them or to gripe about them, and for some reason, America is it. I don’t see Egypt calling up every American Citizen and saying “Gee, guys, thanks for the $50 Billion you’ve given us since 1975”. Or what about Columbia who gets $540 million each year to battle the drug trade. Or how about the $23,240 every single American Tax payer pays to each Israeli Citizen a year? Thats out of the Tax payers pockets. What about the Peace Corps who go and devote their time to other countries? What about the Missionaries? What about the people who take up collections to fight for World Wide Illnesses, or what about those cancer and aids walks? That’s not just for us you know. What about the relief funds for the world wide?
the United states is called many names in this day, colonists, jerks, greedy pigs, world police, morons, bigots and so many more that I’m sure some others could tell you better than I. But there was a time when those were the furthest things from our mind. When the attention was on other “bad” nations. But what happens when we complete our missions and the world goes back to normal? In my opinion it’s human nature to want to band against a common foe, and with great power comes great attention (and responsibility as Davie’s sig puts it), so naturally, who gets the attention? And yet for some reason it’s always negative. *shakes her head* I completely forget where I went after that, and it was worded much better and all of that, blegh my heads not in this heh, I made my “Smart” post for the day and it went to poot, so I’m just going to say *wave* later, kids, I’ll see if I’ll repost tomorrow.

Frankly
Its about the tragedy.
I really don’t know why one wants to bash a country or a government or its peoples.
Its about the TRAGEDY.

EVERYONE should help. I believe in the goodness of man enough to know PEOPLE WILL help, they already are.

May the suffering be blessed by those that are willing to help, and bless them too.

And anyone who cares at all, can visit this page and find out where they can put their currency of choice where their mouth is » http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html

I don’t see the connection between the US not sending aid and Christianity being “Dead” in the US.

Well Christians are supposed to be kind generous and giving and all that jazz… so if America does not give, taht could be seen as an abandonment of christian principles…

On a sidenote here it’s really suprising living over in England how much religion matters over there in the US, over here we’re almost entirely secular, religion isn’t that much of an issue.

Anyway back to the aid issue, rusted tight really seems to have annoyed the american contingent, with what at the time was a valid assertion, that the US government wasn’t contributing enough, and this was an outrage, however the US has rectified the situation so everyones cool with the US now….

Anyway heres hoping that things don’t deteriorate in the area now, and they can get back on there feet. Hopefully the scale of the disatser will bring the people of the countries together, and the splits in Sri lanka and Indonesia especially are mended. Oh and lets hope that none of the governments in those countries seeks to use this disaster and deny aid to rebel regions.