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Oh, and then the church people from the county would storm downtown with their vans, handing out sandwiches and apples to homeless people who would then toss an appreciable amount of it all out into the streets.
I know, because I walked home after these feeding efforts and stepped over all of the litter. But the church people got their feelings stroked, They were good people who did good! And keeping the homeless in the city kept them out of their area.
The problem is people need to apply legally to immigrate and as sad as life is for many people we can’t take everyone that wants to come. We have a huge growing homeless population many of which are veterans whose needs aren’t being taken care of. How sad that someone that has served our country finds themselves homeless and probably many of them have ptsd from their service. Just like our individual budgets have limits so does the federal government.
I used to feel more sorry for immigrants until the ones in Europe found themselves in Poland and they had no intention of staying because they knew the services were much better in Germany. Some of the Poles had set them up in apartments and they left in the middle of the night to sneak away. Poland is a poorer country and they must have known this.
It’s a big problem because some of our policies and interference in other countries has caused some of the instability in these countries. Everyone on this board knows that I am very empathetic but we cannot solve the problems by just letting as many people come illegally as they want to. A certain number will enter the country illegally and pick our crops cheaply because we border Mexico and there’s no way to stop them.
That is a humane and practical position to take. The problem is, it isn’t short and smug enough to fit on one of those “in this house we believe” yard signs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
Latest in my city is they want to use taxpayer money to set up a communist farm where immigrants and refugees can grow crops from their native lands, but can never own the land, just work it. And no one born in the US is allowed to use the farm. Trying to stop this is my cause du jour.
I think it's a romantic idea to have a community of otherwise-shunned people working the land, growing their own food. But I can't see that as being an appealing option for many immigrants and refugees. We think "back to the land" is wonderful, but that's because most of us have never been homesteaders or sharecroppers and we've lived long enough in the "American Dream" to be able to reject it. For better or worse, immigrants and refugees come to America for what they see as freedom to work for all the shiny stuff they believe that we all have--not for more of what they left behind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
I suspect that the people proposing this policy perhaps have never been farmers themselves....Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
You do realize crops are picked by immigrants that don't own the land right?
Yes, it's a serf mentality. It would make much more sense to offer more funding for first time home land/homebuyimg programs. A lot of refugees in my area came from Communist countries like Vietnam and Cambodia and reject that model.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
If you needed another reason to not vote Republican, you could have watched last night's pathetic debate.
The most recent GOP debate.
Watching the folks up their, and considering there words, I do not believe the Republican Party as I knew it even exists anymore.
And so, I am will be able to vote for a Republican candidate, because I don't think there is one.