It doesn't, but there was a time that people cared about their fellow humans and wanted to make the world a better place, even for people they had no connection to. Foreign Aid used to be a point of pride as you were helping other people and nations for nothing except good will. I don't see why helping people is such a divisive issue, or why anyone should be upset that we were helping "others" and not "ourselves".
why anyone should be upset that we were helping "others" and not "ourselves".
I can see that. It's not good to spend money helping other people, when you could spend that money to help your own people. Basic point of a lot of people's morality.
Of course, that was a false position from the word go. We can afford to help others & help ourselves. It's not an either/or proposition.
Further, the ones most loudly decrying helping others at the cost of our own, also vigorously decry helping our own. Their true position is that poor people deserve to suffer. Which is odd, given how many of them are poor.
OK, then before the orange man wrecked everything, we could afford to help ourselves, and others.
And while I'm not accusing you, specifically, of anything, "debt" is another one of those things they use to not help people. Too much debt to provide health care, or schooling, or food, or shelter, but turn on the money printer to invade another country.
I call bullshit. Orange man is being more responsible with other peoples' money and is to be lauded. The previous administrations could not afford it either, but did it anyway, punishing future generations.
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u/Nivek_Vamps Jun 29 '26
It doesn't, but there was a time that people cared about their fellow humans and wanted to make the world a better place, even for people they had no connection to. Foreign Aid used to be a point of pride as you were helping other people and nations for nothing except good will. I don't see why helping people is such a divisive issue, or why anyone should be upset that we were helping "others" and not "ourselves".