Bahamas - People are shooting each other for food and water.

[spencer60]

FYI... we give most countries aid of one kind or another... And it is all taxpayer money...

More than two hundred countries receive U.S. aid. It disproportionately goes to a few, however, with the top five all receiving over $1 billion per year as of 2016: Iraq ($5.3 billion), Afghanistan ($5.1 billion), Israel ($3.1 billion), Egypt ($1.2 billion), and Jordan ($1.2 billion).

Yup... I know it, but that doesn't mean I agree at all with it... Short of things like war reparations, there's simply no valid reason for one country to pay off another.

 

[webicknell]

Yup... I know it, but that doesn't mean I agree at all with it... Short of things like war reparations, there's simply no valid reason for one country to pay off another.

Agree with this....

We are United States Red Cross of America

 

[Bellman2]

It doesn’t mean we can’t help them with food, clean drinking water and clothes. Shelters for them to come in out of the cold.

Cold????? Its not cold in the Bahamas

 

[Bellman2]

What rock did you just crawl out from under,,

What he said is true, but the humane thing is to offer help,food, water, medical aid, the basics.

 

[Bellman2]

You got it all wrong brother,, we help because it is the way we are, we also have a very large community of the island people and they sit 65 miles off our coast, aid will becoming to them from all over the world. Don’t forget the US has had help from other country also

You are wrong there!!! We got no foreign help from Andrew, we gt no foreign help when tornadoes rip through our country, we got no foreign help when Katrina flooded Texas and Louisiana. Still we help when we can.

 

[GeauxLSU]

You are wrong there!!! We got no foreign help from Andrew, we gt no foreign help when tornadoes rip through our country, we got no foreign help when Katrina flooded Texas and Louisiana. Still we help when we can.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9231819/n...tions-offer-aid-help-us-katrina/#.XXP5-yhKjIU

 

[Trailrider]

So many opinions on this. I'll just say this one thing. I've never seen so many "Christians" not just unwilling to help, but flat out refusing to help. All because it's another country. So it's not your problem. Carry on. It's not our responsibility or the USA's. But it's the right thing to do.

Edit: And yes, I've donated.

 

[Bellman2]

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9231819/n...tions-offer-aid-help-us-katrina/#.XXP5-yhKjIU

Well, news to me!! Thanks, how come so little mention of it. Could've that I no !longer trust anything the news media says.

 

[Mk1a]

Let's all say it together, one more time, with feeling:

US Foreign Aid in total - to everyone - amounts to approx. 1% of the budget. Wipe it out tomorrow, and you literally would not notice.

Much of the aid that goes to places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, and Egypt is direct military support, in which the US is either disposing of surplus equipment and systems or is spending US dollars to buy US hardware from US defense contractors and then handing it over to the 'aid' recipients. That is, in that last case, it's money being spent at home that directly translates to US jobs. Maybe you're against that and more power to you, but if you work on the line in Ridley Park, PA, or Lima, OH, or Columbia, SC, or St Louis, MO or Marietta, GA or wherever - you directly benefit from that 'foreign aid'.

Now, if you're a voter who's upset that the government isn't spending more money in your town - well, that's basically half of the Democrat platform right there, so go for it.