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Originally Posted by Webmaster Advertising
I honestly do not think we (as a country) are admired around the world.
I do however believe the rest of the worlds governments put on a good 'game face' when it comes to wanting our money, money that we should be keeping in our own country for our own national disasters such as failing education rates, homeless levels increasing and poor unemployment figures.
Imagine if just 10% of the money we gave to other countries for disaster relief efforts was used to better the country itself, from infrastructure right the way up through the economy, job creation and education...
There is an old saying 'charity begins at home' it seems like we have forgotten that, especially when it comes to assisting countries that quite honestly, are a hotbed of in-fighting and general clusterfucks overall, with or without natural disasters.
As country we waste so much money on useless crap, wars, election campaigning, etc... Why does it cost a guy over 10M to lose a presidential election?
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$10m for a presidential election? that is nothing. That is less than a week on the campaign trail. In the last election both Romney and Obama spent over $1 billion dollars. Assume that the election started in January although it is sooner than that. That means they spent an average of around $24 million per week. That is insane!
I am not saying we are perfect and I too think we need to do more at home. I read recently that with the money we spent on the Iraq war we could have given every American healthcare coverage for life. Still, I think in most places around the world we are still admired. We have those who hate us and our critics, but I think there are many that still like us, want to emulate us and look to us for leadership.