Trade goods or blood and money? The only ideal that made this nation great is that the individual is free. Everything else is political manuevering for our benefit.
I disagree. I believe that helping those that have a legitimate need and that can't meet the need themselves also makes this nation great.
I'm not quite sure I follow what you're asking.
Exactly. Individuals should not be required to help A or B due to government foreign policies and spending. If they want to help someone or another nation it should be a personal decision. Not something forced upon everyone.
My wife and I send $48 each month to a little girl in Africa. This type of behavior makes the US great.
Our government doesn't help anyone. It takes from the citizens and transfers wealth to others. That's not what makes the US great. Nothing the government does is done without a selfish interest.
+1. Redistribution of income by force is not helping. If it goes to roads, defense I can see the need to pay my "fair share" (the amount we can argue about later). But stating entitlements are helping their recipients is debatable.
How about liberating European nations from Hitler? Did that make us great? How about expelling Iraq from Kuwait? Did that make us great? I'd say that bothdid. I agree that what the government DOES do and what it SHOULD do are rarely ever the same thing. The transference of wealth to others violates the "legitimate need/unable to meet the need criteria that I listed for people that SHOULD be helped.
Depends on the nature of the help. Can the individuals in the nation stop a hostile invasion force from conquering another nation? That sort of help is by necessity given by the government.
Are we talking about economic assistance to needy families? I believe that this is the duty of the individual.
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