I understand what you are saying, but the U.S. is close to being 11 TRILLION $$$$ in debt. Why are we still sending what we do not have somewhere else? I am not being mean here, but your thinking is what makes me crazy, no matter how you try to justify taking care of other countries and their children, what about us? I'm sorry Somalian children are hungry, but I am far more upset children in my own city won't eat tonight!
As to the debt, I agree that the government should be spending less money in general. But if you want more money for welfare (which is 11% of the expenditure; plus pensions makes 27%) then you'd have to probably cut education (14%), defense (16%) or health care (18%).
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spend.php?span=usgs302&year=2011&view=1&expand=40&expandC=&units=b&fy=fy12&local=s&state=US&pie=total#usgs30240In the USA, do we have massive death tolls due to starvation? Is our economy crippled because workers get sick often from malaria? Do we have
3000 children dying daily from malaria (number of African children who die from malaria every day)? Botswana lost 17% of its health care workforce due to AIDS between 1999 and 2005. My comment was posted primarily because people complain so much about conditions in the US, but what we have here is drastically better than what people live with day to day in other countries. We're not perfect, certainly, but I think that we take pretty good care of our own, to the extent that we can (my earlier link). However, I don't think that our government should just throw money at other countries, either. It needs to cut expenditures because of the debt, but private persons should perhaps donate more to other countries.
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