when is it right to NOT help someone when you could?

the other day, on a forum i frequent, i read a post about how we “just can’t afford” to help haiti when we have so many debts to our own people. the poster said we have to deal with healthcare in america and paying for the wars in iraq and afghanistan before we can give $100 million in aid to haiti.

and i mean, really, i can see where he’s coming from, but that’s is such a selfish point of view. the government always over-spends. if the wealthy upper-class would quit whining and just submit to paying higher taxes, which we all know they can afford, we could afford healthcare and we could afford to help haiti.

haiti is a third-world country, and we are a superpower. we’ve been one of the most prosperous nations in the world for quite some time, and i’m not sure that’s not still true even with our current economic crisis. it just aggravates me that people think money is a justifiable reason to let thousands of people die from starvation, dehydration, and grievous injuries because they were caught in an earthquake in a country that was already struggling.

god, people can be so selfish. i think this situation is a great argument in favor of socialism.