helping refugees

[Shaker]

That's the second brilliant WGD link/article in a few weeks every word of which I've agreed with. Bookmarked. (The recent post, 'One Year on', about the first anniversary of his partner's death is a magnificent though heart-rending piece of witing).

[Aruntraveller]

When we have so many living on the streets should we be housing foreigners not refugees above our own people? We need to get our own off the streets first into decent living accommodation and ONLY then look to help those coming here. Charity begins at home. Get our homeless and mentally ill off the streets and then look to what we have left for the foreigners coming here.

What a convenient fall back position. It's almost as if all these people on our streets have just magically appeared.

But they haven't Sass they have been there for years ignored by all of us most of the time as we pass by on the way to the pub/theatre/ restaraunt.

And now, but only now you feel the need to press them into use in your appaling Little Britain argument against helping refugees.

And you call yourself a Christian. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[Anchorman]

The Wee Ginger Dug is atheist.
There's nothing wrong with that...but his attitude in his commentary today should shame many who try to call themselves Christian.

https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/the-precious-little-princess/

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Agreed absolutely.
Paul's blogs on his partner's increasing vascular dementia over the last few years have been moving, witty - even amusing as well.
He speaks a whole lot of sense on the politics front as well!

[Shaker]

And you call yourself a Christian.

But then so does Iain Duncan "University-of-Perugia-well-nearly-sort-of-I-can-live-on-£53-a-week" Smith.

[dadvokat]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11848755/I-wouldnt-have-a-Syrian-refugee-in-my-house.-That-doesnt-make-me-evil.html

[Jack Knave]

True, Libya is just more evidence that the USA/EU are incompetent at handling these conflicts and do so only to their own, short term, advantage.

It's not that Germany loves the Syrians, just that they are more able to see and grapple with the longer term issues. I don't know if they have any ideas about how to halt ISIS and the conflict in Syria and the ME itself, but does anyone?

You have hit the nail on the head there with short term. Everything with Western politics, if not all, is that it is myopic for a quick gain or gratification. All long term consequences get no look in or if they are acknowledged in some small way are just kicked down the road.

[Nearly Sane]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/this-guy-wrote-the-perfect-anti-emigration-facebook-rant?bffbuk&utm_term=4ldqphz#4ldqphz