Thread: This is not good

Report: Some impoverished U.S. counties need foreign aid - CNN.com

Thoughts?

Originally Posted by WickedTribe

That's not new. Thousands of families have received aid every winter from Venezuela in the form of discounted heating oil. Oil Heat Program

A Massachusetts-based company (Citizen's Energy) buying and distributing cheaper heating oil from Citgo has a slightly different ring to it than "Venezuela sends us discounted heating oil." don't you think?

But I digress...

Yeah, it's unfortunate that there are needy people, especially children. It's funny though, when I think "Foreign Aid" I imagine Chinook helicopters clad in United Nations blue air-lifting bags of rice into war-torn central Africa or tsunami-ravaged Indonesia, not a local government partnering with a Danish foundation on reading programs. This happens ALL the time in areas such as technology and communications, management philosophy and skills training but suddenly when it's kids learning to read in a poor state like Mississippi, it's big troubling news.

The US imports tons of stuff - this isn't news news.

That being said, I would like to see our state and local governments spend their money more wisely so some of these programs weren't necessary, but that's between those elected officials and their constituents.

A. Citgo is Venezuelan government owned business and the oil it supplies is from Venezuelan government oil supplies. So yes the Venezuelan government is donating subsidized heating oil to impoverished American citizens living in the US.

B. As stated in the article, that reading program is funded by a foreign entity b/c our own government won't. You can try to play it down with your overly dramatic view on what constitutes foreign aid but the truth is the truth. We can fund un-necessary wars into the trillions of dollars while our fellow citizens fall into poverty by the millions. I'm sure you can rationalize or downplay that in some way.

Yeah, weren't we supposed to be on our way out of those trillion dollar wars? And didn't we spend another trillion dollars in stimulus? Are you telling me that we didn't spend any of that on some books for the Mississippi kids? That's silly...when will Obama get his budgetary priorities straight? I wish he would pump some money into these needy children's schools...it's a shame that his administration is in such dire need of federal aid.

Come on, Barack...end these wars like you promised.

And while you're at it, let's get unemployment down to a reasonable 7 or 8 percent like you promised as well so these kids parents can afford the supplemental teaching tools so savagely denied them by our current wasteful administration.

I'm with you, tigger, fix these schools, Obama!

Not really news, poor and impoverished people has been a fact in this land even before the establishment of the republic but because some C.A. sudo- socialist country sells fuel at a discounted price it gets attention.This country has plenty of resources to take care of all our citizens but sadly the powers that be only see the destitute beyond our borders and not within the priority Should be American first and any remainder to our neighbors.

Originally Posted by Consultant

Yeah, weren't we supposed to be on our way out of those trillion dollar wars? And didn't we spend another trillion dollars in stimulus? Are you telling me that we didn't spend any of that on some books for the Mississippi kids? That's silly...when will Obama get his budgetary priorities straight? I wish he would pump some money into these needy children's schools...it's a shame that his administration is in such dire need of federal aid.

Come on, Barack...end these wars like you promised.

And while you're at it, let's get unemployment down to a reasonable 7 or 8 percent like you promised as well so these kids parents can afford the supplemental teaching tools so savagely denied them by our current wasteful administration.

I'm with you, tigger, fix these schools, Obama!

He inherited those wars and any rational person would understand that getting out of them will be a lot harder then getting in them. And where did he promise to lower the unemployment rate? It's the profitable US businesses that refuse to hire.

But I digress, you lack the integrity to put the blame where it rightfully belongs and just resort to reducing these problems in some attempt at being sarcastic.

I was not ATTEMPTING to be sarcastic, I think I fully achieved it.

Seriously though, waste not, want not.

I have a client in a poor section of Mississippi, their facilities are dilapidated, their clients are needy, their programs are under funded, but last year they bought a fleet of brand new cars for their inspectors to tool around in.

How many hundred-thousand + dollar per year assistant superintendents are present in these school districts with failing educational standards? on and on and on.

Any rational person would see that government fails regularly to spend its money wisely - that's where these problems come from...and since education is funded in most districts at least 90% locally, that's not a federal problem, nor was it designed to be.