Funding America or Funding the World

America has always become involved with other countries from the start of time. During the early days America was even envolved with their mother country, Great Britain. Whether America was just trying to get their freedom, or they were trying to help the Great Britain to become a stronger nation on their own. Americans would always be consumed with their own freedom, but also the freedom of those in other countries. This could be the reason why many people migrate to America. Years later America would than help the developed Europe. No matter which war it be, World War I or event the Vietnam War, America became consumed with helping other countries. However, through these ideas, America has often found themselves in a war or a time of need themselves. I believe that once America has got themselves envolved with another country for their troubles, America has taken on their problems and made them our own. If the United States was to become involved with the problems that Haiti had, their problems would become ours. Before America hands out more money to other countries, they should fix the debt that we have. America needs to worry about their own problems before they can go and help someone else. Recently America has been helping other countries in times after natural disasters, and these things are not preventable. For the United States to truely help other countries when these things happen, they must first fix the issues that are at home. The United states truely should not go out of their way to help other countries before helping themselves.  To help prevent future catastrophes the United States needs to be prepared for the worst. Rather than spending the American's hard earned money on helping other countries, their money should be used to help the American economy.

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[Wrichtmyer]

Melissababesxox, you are completely right. As I previously stated in my Typepad (posted early yesterday) America has this unlogical need to help other countries in peril. It reminds me of a sinking ship, in the middle of the Pacific, and the crew is worried about all of their valuables and other ships that could possibly run aground. Instead of worrying about this, one crewmember worries about the sharks that are below him. A short (and probably horribly constructed analogy) such as this would show that America needs to watch out for the sharks in the water, rather than worry about other ships (countries) in the area. It is truly an unfortunate thing that America has resorted to helping other countries and spending 60% of its money in the national defense budget and social security, two systems that are completely flawed. America needs to divert the 40 billion dollars into protecting itself, instead of pursuing interests of imperialism and helping out other countries. This misunderstanding of the American people, beginning with Operation Iraqi Freedom (even dating before that with Operation Desert Storm from the previous Bush Sr. administration) is what America needs to forget about.
If America does wish to pursue these imperialist ideas, at least capitalize on them. One great man by the name of Donald Trump, an American entrepreneur, stated in an interview with Fox News that in fact, there is 15 trillion dollars worth of oil in Iraq’s oil fields. It has the largest amount of oil underground in the world, second to only Saudi Arabia. This oil alone could be used to pay off the War in Iraq and Afghanistan (totaling 1 billion dollars) and our national debt (somewhere around 14 trillion dollars). As Americans, we have pursued the wrong interests. Sometimes we need to be selfish to achieve and prosper.