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In reply to the discussion: Am I wrong in feeling we should take care of our homeless folks first? [View all]840high
(17,196 posts)17. Take care of your own first. If we
have extra money - then consider helping the migrants.
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Am I wrong in feeling we should take care of our homeless folks first? [View all]
Tommy2Tone
Sep 2015
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i don't see why it is either/or, we have a significant homeless problem in St. Louis, if we didn't..
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2015
#15
if we took in percentage wise the amount Germay is taking in it would be over 3 million for the US
lunasun
Sep 2015
#20
Conservatives are not going to help the refugees. If liberals don't help them, no one will.
pampango
Sep 2015
#22
Let's do both, to do that we have to get rid of all non Democratic politicians.
randys1
Sep 2015
#26
No you are not but it seems human nature to write a check to go across the ocean
Cleita
Sep 2015
#27
I have always been a "Charity starts at home" thinking person and, quite frankly, believe that we
Ghost in the Machine
Sep 2015
#32
I can go along with that, and even go a little bit better! As part of their sentence, Bush, Cheney,
Ghost in the Machine
Sep 2015
#37
No, they would probably find some sick joy in burying all those dead "brown people". I would have
Ghost in the Machine
Sep 2015
#61