More important : Good American? Good Human Being?

Good American? Good Human Being? I prefer a mix of both.

Indian Reservation children live like Guatemalans. But of course they certainly wouldn't appreciate your giving as much as someone farther away in a place you probably will never see.

Why look close by when you can send American Dollars outside the USA and help someone who's not an American.

In some countries the American dollar goes much further. That's money well spent. Besides, sending money to Guatemala is what any good Guatemalan immigrant would do.

I have to agree with Kat too...not all American charities spend all their resources on overhead & have galas.

Also, working with the disenfranchised here there is not a great safety net in the USA. 1 in 4 children live under the poverty level.

I believe in being a good human being & I'm glad you're proving Bush's stimulus program a failure.

Thank you.

Isn't there some poor kid somewhere in your neighborhood? One that needs glasses, or shoes, or lunch money? Why not start your own charity so to speak. This way you know and see exactly where your charity goes, because you give it straight to the kid that will use it. They you can monitor the progress and see if it helped. And since you'd have given it to an American, maybe he'll grow up successful and pass the favor on to others...and it was all because of you.

I've heard charity starts at home, and I never thought that meant my house. I've always viewed it as my neighborhood, surroundings, and or environment that is my daily life.

Nationality shouldn't play a place in determining the fee of a existence. That mentioned, I certainly have a controversy with the wording of your question, by using fact in attempting to analyze the two, there is an implicit assumption that one man or woman's existence or prosperity comes on the rate of the different. No guy is at once entitled to the end results of yet another's hard artwork. As governments are composed of folk, this additionally potential no gov't has an automatic top to a diverse man or woman's prosperity. each human has an intrinsic top to the end results of their hard artwork, and no person is "extra equivalent" than yet another. I deliver this up by using fact international extensive (which contain right here interior the US), peoples' lives and prosperity are impacted by potential of a few distance the main by potential of the strikes of their government. Such strikes variety from nicely-which potential yet defective, to inefficient, corrupt, or malevolent. working example, a gov't will develop taxes, inflicting company to the two flee the region or bypass out of company. the consequence is larger unemployment and extra poverty and violence. Or, a united states of america erects commerce obstacles to "take care of" some industry. the consequence is the shoppers in that united states of america pay greater fees--hence increasing poverty--collectively as human beings in exporting worldwide places additionally are made poorer by potential of having a industry closed off to them. What i'm attempting to declare with all this is that it would not make quite some sense to analyze the existence or prosperity of one man or woman to a diverse except one's comes on the rate of yet another, and in an appropriate international, that would not happen. collectively as our international is lots from appropriate, that does no longer mean we ought to continually no longer try for it.

There is no reason to choose! You can do both, they are not mutually exclusive. (I really get annoyed at "either/or" questions that ask someone to choose when the two matters aren't even related to begin with....its intellectually lazy).

Its your money to do with as you wish, and I'm not going to judge you for how you spend it.

Your friend is a retard. Sending money to needy children in another country is not being a bad American. Granted the government was hoping that the money would go back into the economy but its your money do what you want with it.

Your friend could take humanitarian lessons from you.You are showing one part of the world,that Americans can and do reach out to those less fortunate.Well done!

I need to know your ethnic background. I suspect you are latin american yourself, and you think its cute to refer to yourself as an "American" while helping others that share your ethnic heritage.

Actually, Suze nailed it.

what about all the children here who need help of some sort, whether it be food, shelter or medical? It' nice to be a good human being, but charity does begin at home!