America Home Of The Spoiled Analysis

America: Home of the Spoiled Why should America give anything to New Orleans, let alone other nations? It is understood by many that America sets up countless organizations to help needy countries. However, with the economical power of America and its people, does it do enough? After all America does as much as any other nation. However is it required to do more, being in the position that it is? Why should America look out for anyone other than herself?

The bottom line is that nobody should be able to say where or how we can spend our money as Americans, even if America consumes more than any other nation. That is an interesting thought no doubt. America consumes more than any other nation, sometimes in excess of 300%. Think of all the resources we tear through at alarming speed like gasoline and other fossil fuels. Billions of dollars are wasted on the needless consumer garbage made to quell our need to spend. America is one of the most wasteful nations on earth, and we don't try to hide it, we flaunt it. This is not any one man's fault. This fault lays on the very society of America. The same society that tells us to go bigger, super size it, and be
proud of it. America is a down right spoiled nation that will spend one hundred dollars on a pair of jeans just to be cool. Sad that we would spend a hundred bucks on that pair of jeans, that has been grinded with sandpaper and ripped open to show off those ever so nice areas, but most of us wouldn't give a dollar to an aide organization to New Orleans. And, if we wouldn't give a dollar to one of our own states, we most certainly wouldn't give anything to another nation like Indonesia in their time of despair during the tidal wave.

There are many countries out there helpless, while Americas lust for material possessions only grows larger. Children starve to death, while we go to the supermarket and have a whole aisle devoted strictly to one's breakfast cereal. In America we even have mega malls where you can go and buy almost any plush desire that you could want. In every third world country they have to make what they need to survive. In some countries people could carry their belongings with them easily, and in America we have so much crap, they had to create U-haul. Surely the great country of America can save all these nations. The answer is most certainly a resounding no, because America although great is not a god.

However, as stated above, is America really required to do more, being of the "World Superpower" status that it wears around its neck?
The answer, no, America should not. Granted America has a certain obligation to the rest of the world, but it fulfills that through aide and other organizations abroad like the United Nations. America has many if not all of the bad things other nations have, short of genocide. We have one of the worst crime rates in the world. We have terrible poverty, sometimes staring you in the face on your lunch hour depending on where you live. Yes, Americans deserve all they get. Yes it deserves everything from the sexual assault and racial discrimination suites to the five-dollar Starbucks coffees and super-sized hamburger meals at your favorite fast food
restaurant.

In conclusion, America needs to do a lot here on our own soil before looking abroad. The rate at which we consume can in no way be interpreted as anything less than extremely excessive, but our economy runs that way. We have an extremely industrialized nation of people who will do almost anything for money. America has many problems, and with these problems that are associated with our country it is up to one's own self to choose how to spend that paycheck. Yes, Americans can spend their hard earned money however they want; because when comes down to it, they earned it. And, nobody should ever be able to tell you what you can do with something that you alone have earned.