The Importance Of Helping Hawai I

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Would you help total strangers even if it could bring harm to your own family? If we continue to help and give our resources the poor countries, eventually our lifeboat will sink. In this fast changing world, we have no time to spare on our empathy, as the United States we need to realize that we have to put the U.S. citizens before any others. I 'm not saying that we should abandon poor countries in their time of need, but rather than give the poor countries our resources we worked hard to acquire, we can export skills and advice. Will helping poor countries with them just keep taking, be a never-ending cycle that will end up with our demise? "Metaphorically each rich nation can be seen as a lifeboat full of comparatively rich people," said …show more content…
When the United States bombed Micronesia and The Marshall Islands, their people came here to Hawai 'i. The U.S. forced Hawai 'i to house the refugees because we have the same "environment" as they do. Why is it our duty to pay for their medical, food, and housing when it 's the United States fault for ruining their homes? Hawai 'i has way to many people on these small islands if the U.S. wants to help these refugees then let them stay on the continental. Here in Hawai 'i, it is very expensive to live here, that 's why we have so much homeless. The homeless consists of the refugees from these ruined islands and people for the continental that wan to live in this stable weather. The continental U.S. has more than enough room to house the refugees, and it 's at a reasonable price to live in. If and when we allow the Syrian refugees into the United States, we should put families with children first, and filter out the rest thoroughly. We don 't have enough room, resources, and money to provide for people that just come over and expect to have a good life. Our land is being ruined because there isn 't enough room to house all these people, so the state knocks down trees and level land to build more houses. Hawai 'i is a mixing pot that is over spilling, we didn 't want the white people here what makes you think we want all these

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