Are YA Americans care more about Iraqis than their fellow Americans?

Question

I had a poll on YA before and most would pay 6000$ each to fund the war but in a separate poll most would not invest 12.8% of their salary for healthcare that could potential save 100000 fellow Americans.

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Answer 1

i dunno

we've got problems here

Answer 2

You're absolutely right it makes no sense.  People have this assumption that if you don't work hard then you don't get health insurance, which is simply unfounded.

There is a crisis in America and sadly the wool has been pulled over so many of our citizen's eyes.

Answer 3

Yeah, we should be paying for ourselves, not the war.

EDIT: Actually, I'm not saying any lazy tards should get money from other people who earned it, but we still shouln't be paying for the war.

Answer 4

Hurray, propaganda!

12.8% wouldn't save 100000 lives

nice try though

I think most people were smart enough to relize that

.

Answer 5

i think americans in general think that they are doing fine enough as a country and want to help other countries become more equal to their own comforts before improveing their own country, kind of putting others first. i see your point on fixing our own problems before trying to conquer larger ones.....but just explaining my theory on why you got the responces that you did.

Answer 6

It doesn't seem right to you. But it does seem right to others.

That is what makes this country awesome. You can actually have dialogue about it.

Unfortunately nowadays if you disagree with someone you get lambasted. left and right ends of the spectrum are spreading further apart.

Answer 7

$6000 per American is 1.8 trillion dollars.  That would, presumably, be a one-time expenditure (and, we're already about halfway there).

12.8% of the income of ever American would be around 1.6 trillion dollars - /every year/, forever.  The present value of 1.6 trillion dollars a year, grown at  typical 2% for economic growth (net of inflation), and discounted by the current 4.7% yield on government bonds would be about 57 billion.  

So I see nothing too strange about balking at the latter.

Answer 8

Don't think so.

Just living in misery at loss and blurr on what went wrong out there.

At loss with our creator's universal gifts of life "The spoils of the war" from world war two that was lost with time.

Joshua 7.11

The glory and honour of the United States of America from world war two.

With lost sense of direction and purpose of life.

Answer 9

Well, since health care is not a right, and can not be under our form of government, this just shows how many unproductive ...oops I mean poor Americans have access to the Internet. I personally do not have health insurance currently, and that is by choice. Both of my kids have insurance, that I pay for. Everyone in this country that does not have health insurance has chosen not to have it. This may not be a direct choice. If you choose to be poor, and if you are poor here, it is by choice, then why should the rest of us that have chosen not to be poor be forced to pay for it.

lets say, in my neighborhood, a person has a a calamity, and has trouble making ends meet. Because of this, I go house to house and ask for money to help. Everyone will agree that this is a noble act.

If however, I put a gun to everyone's head, and tell them to give me 12.8% of their money, and inform them that only about 3% of that money will actualy be given to the person in need, and the rest will go to administrative, and fraud exspenses, what would that be called? Theft at best, yet that is exactly what the federal government would do. They may not use a gun to your head, but they will use the threat of the force of the power of the federal government to take your money, legal maybe, but just it is not.

You are wrong my friend, I have worked my butt off since I was 15 years old. I have invested wisely, and can afford any healthcare issue that may come way. I'm 45 now, and I have in the past have payed more than $30,000 in health insurance premiums. Out of that money, I have had claims for less than $1,200. They only reason my kids have insurance is because of sports they both play in high school. If I had invested the money I have spent on my personal health insurance, That $30,000 would now be worth more than $100,000......pays for quite a bit of health care.