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and I would like honest answers. So far this election season, we've heard so much about the economy, and how unfair it is that Obama wants to tax the upper echelon of earners a little more tax, in order to be able to tax the rest of us a little less. We've heard "why is is my problem?" from those who think he's wrong to do so, how unfair it is that those who earn more should pay more.
But those same people, who support McCain on the tax issue, many believe the Iraq war was not a mistake. I've heard the whole "why should we abandon the country, we've got to leave them in a stable government, etc..."
My question is...why? Why is it OUR problem? Beyond the whole terrorist thing. Why is it our problem to spend billions helping a country halfway around the world, but not our problem when it comes to helping our own citizens? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely interested, because it seems to be a mindset with some. They are separate issues but intertwine, yet many don't seem to see them the same way at all. Now we're the "world's police" and the people who give the most when it comes to foreign crises, but we can't be bothered to lift up our own? Why is that?
But those same people, who support McCain on the tax issue, many believe the Iraq war was not a mistake. I've heard the whole "why should we abandon the country, we've got to leave them in a stable government, etc..."
My question is...why? Why is it OUR problem? Beyond the whole terrorist thing. Why is it our problem to spend billions helping a country halfway around the world, but not our problem when it comes to helping our own citizens? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely interested, because it seems to be a mindset with some. They are separate issues but intertwine, yet many don't seem to see them the same way at all. Now we're the "world's police" and the people who give the most when it comes to foreign crises, but we can't be bothered to lift up our own? Why is that?