I hate to seem unsympathetic, and I am sure someone will get mad at me for saying this, but do we have to foot the bill for the entire friggin' world all the time?
I'm not mad at you,
I agree WITH you!
Why is it always up to us to rescue the world when some natural or man-made disaster comes along?
Why does Uncle Sam feel so free to shove his hand in MY pocket every time he thinks it's justified?
To add insult to injury, it's often the same people who would happily see us DEAD... or at least injured!
I don't know about everybody else, but I'm not sure how much more blood he can GET from this turnip, and if I have to watch somebody we've help spit on us one more time, I just don't know WHAT I'm going to do!
Compassion fatigue and wallet rot will do that to you.
Then there are the compassion grifters.
No, we don't.
But Bush thinks we do, because he's going for The Legacy Thing.
And it's not his money he's pissing away, so what the hell does he care? He's a Big Government politician to begin with; this is as natural as breathing for someone who doesn't care about any limits on Big Stupid Government.