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WE NEED TO STOP HELPING ANY COUNTRY OUT ANYMORE. Lets fix our own roads and bridges.
Depends on your goals and care for humanity. Helping others who are in the middle of a disaster is what friends do.
First off most roads and bridges are the jurisdiction of states and counties.
I'm still trying to figure out why the federal infrastructure budget includes things like water lines. That's all local.
But why should the whole country pay for flooding in Houston. That was caused by local laws and permits.
Maybe you mean stop bailing out Americans who do stupid stuff. They are so busy with their lives they have no time to pay attention to what their own local elected officials do.
Bus Man, Sungrins, Retroit, RustyCrowMustang, Chacho_Keva, J'aimesDesVilles, mco65, danielj72, Natnasci, and others, thank you. No. I was not aware of the assistance other countries provide or offer us when we have disasters. It is not very publicized. I'm glad to hear of the examples you all provided.
May want to reconsider your media choices if you were not aware of this.
You're right, NBC, ABC, and CBS have been under-informing me for decades now. It is time to consider something a bit less censoring for my information supplements.
In a related thread to (http:////www.city-data.com/forum/pol...cs-racism.html), whenever natural disasters strike, ANYwhere on the globe, America and Americans respond generously with time, resources, technology, and donations. Every. single. time. When Katrina hit, do you recall ANY other country sending us aid? When ANY disaster has hit the United States, has ANY other country in the world sent us ANY aid?
The ONLY example of such I can recall is when Canada provided burial space for victims of the Titanic disaster. Many of those were Canadian, Irish, and English citizens as well as American.
You're right, NBC, ABC, and CBS have been under-informing me for decades now. It is time to consider something a bit less censoring for my information supplements.
In a related thread to (http:////www.city-data.com/forum/pol...cs-racism.html), whenever natural disasters strike, ANYwhere on the globe, America and Americans respond generously with time, resources, technology, and donations. Every. single. time. When Katrina hit, do you recall ANY other country sending us aid? When ANY disaster has hit the United States, has ANY other country in the world sent us ANY aid?
The ONLY example of such I can recall is when Canada provided burial space for victims of the Titanic disaster. Many of those were Canadian, Irish, and English citizens as well as American.
Being woefully ignorant of things isn't an unpopular thought. It's just being woefully ignorant. Mexico sent a bunch of firefighters up here during the California fires. Also Australia. That was perhaps more of a mutual assistance type arrangement the fire seasons between Australia and US are at different times of the year. None the less it's not like Australia just said thanks for all the help mate, best of luck with that yah.
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