America Cares

(Updated 2007-12-17)

Why Do We Care?

Because we have pride in our country.
We want to directly help reverse the adverse reactions to America that are becoming so common overseas in the last 30 years.
We want to become directly involved in foreign aid. We are tired of using 100's of billions of our precious tax dollars for foreign aid only to have much of it frittered away by waste and fraud; or siphoned off by theft; or eaten up by inept bureaucracy; or by outright theft; or "redirected" for other purposes; ...
We are a wealthy nation and want to directly help those in need by sharing, not just send money to some impersonal shadowy "charity" where much/all of it is eaten up by "overhead" or advertising. Whose executives and managers have salaries we can only dream about.
We have plenty of perfectly good clothes that don't fit anymore; shoes/sneakers we don't wear any more; toys our kids have outgrown or just don't play with any more; ... Just lots of "stuff" others can make good use of. We are tired of donating our good clothes to charities only to find out most of them just end up in rag factories because the charity just can't use them all.
We see homeless refugees living in squalid tent cities and slums. We see barefoot children in ragged clothes scavenging dump for scraps of food. We see children in unlit bomb ravaged hovels striving to get the barest, even meager, education without even chalk, or paper, or books, or pencils, or ... While our kids drive to schools with campuses, do their homework on laptop computers. We want to directly help.
We are tired of bombastic politicians turning every good (or not so good) thing our government does into bitter acrimonious partisan politics. We are tired of pontificating "talking heads" bewailing the ills of the world, then rushing on to breathlessly report on the latest Britney Spears (whoever she is ) scandal. We want to just directly help and quietly go about our business without all the noise.
To send a spark of hope; or a few minutes of joy; or a reason to smile or laugh for maybe the only time in months or even years or even ever; to directly help people in unimaginably desperate circumstances.
Because it's good for our country. ... And it's the right thing to do.