charity begins at home

i don't want to seem mean, but i have been watching alot of coverage about hurricane katrina and the damage that it has caused and the news people saying "if you want to donate go to....". my question is why isn't any of the countries that we always help when they have problems aren't donating any money to help us? i mean, i'm all for helping people, but i think as americans we need to take a good look and realize that all we have is ourselves. maybe we wouldn't have such money problems in this country or maybe we could build up poorer sections of the country if we didn't help out other countries. we need to stop helping other countries when they don't return the help. if other countries are helping than "thank you". honestly though, i haven't heard a thing.