Are Americans Murdering People All Over Earth by Not Giving Them Aid?

The question in the title is certainly what liberals are claiming these days. According to them, we have a MORAL DUTY to go into debt to give money to people in need all over the Earth and if we don’t, we’re RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR DEATHS. You may think I am exaggerating this, but there are lots of liberals claiming exactly this based on projections as unverifiable as the weather models pseudo-scientists used to claim global warming was going to kill all of us a decade ago.

You may ask, “Where do these numbers come from?” Well, they’re mostly made up. Mostly. It’s certainly not, “Steve Smith, Jake Jenkins and Tom Tillins were killed after the US stopped giving them money, they couldn’t pay the interest their loan sharks were demanding, and so they put their feet in cement and tossed them off a pier.” Instead, there are deeply biased, leftist researchers and media hype-men making hysterical estimates of how many people will die per month if some form of aid or another from the US is shut down and nobody replaces it. Are those numbers true, false, accurate, inaccurate? Nobody can confirm it one way or the other, but given who’s doing the studies, you’d expect them to be wildly high.

Of course, if you’re paying attention, you might notice a critical assumption that also goes into all of that which could come right out of Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem, “The White Man’s Burden.”

Take up the White Man’s burden—

Send forth the best ye breed—

Go bind your sons to exile

To serve your captives’ need;

To wait in heavy harness

On fluttered folk and wild—

Your new-caught sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child.

…Take up the White Man’s burden—

The savage wars of peace—

Fill full the mouth of famine

And bid the sickness cease;

And when your goal is nearest

The end for others sought,

Watch Sloth and heathen Folly

Bring all your hopes to nought.

…Take up the White Man’s burden—

And reap his old reward,

The blame of those ye better,

The hate of those ye guard—

The cry of hosts ye humour

(Ah slowly!) toward the light—

“Why brought ye us from bondage,

“Our loved Egyptian night?”

….Take up the White Man’s burden—

Have done with childish days—

The lightly proffered laurel,

The easy, ungrudged praise.

Comes now, to search your manhood

Through all the thankless years,

Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,

The judgement of your peers.

This leads us toward a critical question that never gets answered. Why exactly is it that America is responsible for delivering food, medicine, clothes, medical care and most importantly to liberals, instructions on how to determine if your Kenyan child is trans?

Doesn’t that seem like they something they should be doing for themselves or alternately, something their own governments should be doing? In response to that, liberals might say, “They’re not capable of it! They’re poor! Their governments are corrupt and incompetent! Who cares what the reasons are? There were a lot of liberals making six figures handing all this stuff out. Just start pouring money into our slush fund again!”

First of all, let’s set aside the fact that we have no moral obligation to do this in the first place.

Let’s also skip over the fact that even if we do give someone charity, we have no moral obligation to keep doing it. In fact, shouldn’t aid be a temporary thing you give out to help people get back on their feet? You know, “It’s terrible! The Trout family had an electrical fire and they lost their house on Christmas! But, there’s a GiveSendGo to help them get back on their feet and it raised $190,000!” Pretty much everybody looks at that and loves to see the community step up to help some people who had some bad luck. On the other hand, how do you view people who are on like decade four of asking for charity? In the South, they used to call people like that, “ne’er-do-wells” and nobody had a lot of sympathy for them.

On top of all of that, the numbers can get a little ambiguous and controversial, but what’s not controversial is that the US has done more than any other nation for the rest of the world in pretty much every area, for a long, long, long time. Just to give you an idea of how big that gap is, I had ChatGPT put together a chart showing the top 10 nations in the world in giving since 1960. It will be no surprise to you which country came out on top.

By the way, in case you’re wondering, that’s 2.4 trillion dollars when you add it all up and other than the military aid, which may have been used to purchase American products or in return for favors, we probably got very little in return for the rest of it, particularly in recent years. You’ll also notice that you don’t see China or Russia in that list because they don’t give very much compared to the West and if they’re giving something, they’re at least smart enough to be trying to get something in return. All we supposedly get out of it is “soft power,” which seems to be completely indistinguishable from resentment/ingratitude in most places.

That brings us to the central question, which is; We are not the only country in the world, so if they need medicine in Kenya or food in Haiti and people are dying because they don’t have it, why isn’t someone else doing it? How about China or Russia? What about the EU? What does the United Nations do? How about NGOs? Billionaires? If liberals are so upset about it, why doesn’t someone like Bernie Sanders or AOC encourage donors to chip into fund that can be used for this? Why the United States EXPECTED TO GO INTO FURTHER DEBT to pay for this? Oh, that’s right. The Left really cares about USAID because it was used to fund liberal NGOs, act as a jobs program for the Left, promote socialist values and get taxpayer dollars cycled back into Democratic political organizations.

What it all comes down to is that our country is 38 trillion dollars in debt and doling out money to charity is something only countries running in the black should be doing if there’s not some benefit to it. Could you make a case for it after some rare, particularly heart-rending disaster? Sure, maybe, but it makes no sense to borrow money to give away to other nations in return for nothing year-after-year. We should have stopped doing that decades ago.

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