Don't you hate it?

Yeah, it bothers me too. We pay taxes to help our country, not go on spending sprees in the middle east. I know we destroyed a lot over there, and we should really rethink all of it, but let's get a grasp on what is going on at home. The country is just falling apart in many different ways, and needs more attention than our other unnecessary projects that we get into by putting our nose in others business. It is funny how you said "waste that money on our own country" haha. I say we pay off our national debt with the money we are throwing around. How about we let the economy fall and fix itself, when you do that it is not as bad as temporarily propping it up. By propping it up it only extends the time of the recession/depression, it will come no matter what we do. Oh how I love Austrian economics. But anyways, good topic, we have to stop giving free money to everyone that we feel sorry for. We need to stop trying to be such a super hero parent to every country, by trying to keep our place as top country we are only making it lower in the ranks.

We have SUCH a mess in our own country, and yet they want to send more over there. It really makes me angry in a lot of ways. I do think they should be working more on our own economy, problems, and national debts. We always seem to be willing to bail out other countries, and corporations, etc, etc, etc. I can't recall anybody ever coming to help bail US out. I'm reminded of the phrase 'charity begins at home' and while it's wonderful to want to help other countries, isn't it these other countries duties to try and help their own situations?! A lot of our own problems, in my opinion, is directly involved with us letting our American corporations migrate to other countries to save on expenses, taxes, etc. Instead of giving them incentives to relocate, I think they should penalize instead. They give a tax break to those taking American jobs out of America to have their products produced elsewhere and shipped back here?! That's insane! While our economy is going to the dogs, and jobs here being lost because of companies leaving the U.S., we're helping other economies...but it doesn't help US a bit! I don't see how politicians can be so blind to that all, unless they're getting paid off in kickbacks, or by lobbyists. Just doesn't seem right, nor fair!