[Raptor]

I only agree with that to a point. There is a large majority of people in this country that are on welfare and are homeless that do not have to be. Many are lazy and don't take advantage of the systems that are already in place to help them, the numbers get skewed by them. People that are truely homeless do have places they can go for help in most if not all cases. The reason half of them don't is that it is more profitable to panhandle for them and they have drug habits they don't want to clean up to stay at the shelters. The victems of the tsunami were blameless. As the richest nation on earth, it would be pretty shitty of us to let the rest of the world to take care of tragedy like that and only worry about ourselves. I personally think people like Mr Gates and others who have obscene overabundant funds should step up and help as much as they can. Not saying they have to, I just can't imagine why they wouldn't want to. If I had what i would consider a decent income in any way, I would try to do something to help.