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6 January 2005, 15:32

I wouldn’t classify our assistance as being "NOTHING". Our consumption is not something to take lightly, I agree, but countries such as Japan, China and most of Europe aren’t too far behind in terms of resource use. To insinuate that our standards of living are at all connected to those of foreign places is absurd. Would you have us live like the third world when we have been on the cutting edge of most every new technological and scientific development since the early 1900’s?? As I’ve said before, to make progress, you must make sacrifices, and, to that end, with sacrifice comes rewards. Our standard of living has cost us countless lives and years and years of hard work. The only power that is capable of judging is the God, in whatever capacity you recognize Him. He created every man/woman equal and gave all of man-/womankind the same tools with which to work. To damn Americans because they’ve managed to raise their standard of living by applying their tools in a positive manner is ridiculous. What so few recognize is that our "gluttonous" standard of living, as it is so often referred to, is a result of democratic involvement each and every American has in his government affairs. While you can criticize our gluttony and our consumption, I ask you how many worldwide killer diseases have had their onset in the US? How many billions of dollars in aid have we bled from the international community? If we had no need to worry about protecting our people, we could relax our standards a bit. But, unfortunately, despotic governments, corrupt oil tyrants and fundamentalist terrorists have compromised any individual not overcome with "gluttony". If we could rely on others to be responsible and to not take advantage of us, we could spend less time, money and resources protecting ourselves. For some reason, the US takes the brunt of the blame on this...but you can’t blame a nation for doing whatever needs to be done to protect its peoples....if only we could all be so lucky.