Surviving the Domestic Jungle

This topic seems to keep coming up in random locations so I think I am just going to talk about it. Basically, the ‘topic’ is that Americans are very generous with the rest of the world and raise a lot of money for countries like Haiti and we basically do whatever we can to help everyone but ourselves. I heard a statistic yesterday that 1 in every 5 families are struggling to put groceries on the table and I understand that other countries need help but how can we not help our own first? A lot of people adopt internationally, I think this a wonderful thing, but what about all the American kids that need a mom and dad? There are a lot of problems in this country that need attention and I just think we need to pay attention to those first and then the rest of the world. If we continue to ignore ourselves, there will be problems even greater than we have now in the future. I am all for helping others but your neighbor should be the first person you help. There’s an old saying, “You have to love yourself before you can love anyone else” and that kind of applies here. By not loving ourselves and our country FIRST, we are unable to help anyone else properly. This topic is kind of a tough one because without the United States, a lot of countries would have a lot more problems but at the same time our country needs to be our priority. I don’t think it is selfish to help ourselves first either. When you are sick are you able to go run a marathon? Probably not and when your country is hurting, are you going to be able to really help anyone all that effectively? I don’t know for sure the answer to that but I am going to take a guess and say no. To be American is to get involved and to help out your fellow man and I just think that fellow man should live in your city or state or country.