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44. Agree.

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Am I wrong in feeling we should take care of our homeless folks first? [View all] Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 OP

Yes You Are Wrong ProfessorGAC Sep 2015 #1

We should declare the homeless as internal refugees KamaAina Sep 2015 #2

Thanks Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #5

Internal refugees, good one. bermudat Sep 2015 #35

Take what we can get HassleCat Sep 2015 #3

I get it but for now we seem to be doing neither. Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #6

I agree get the red out Sep 2015 #12

I can walk and chew gum. Scootaloo Sep 2015 #4

The only limit on our resources is imagination gratuitous Sep 2015 #7

Oh that is not true yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #9

We have a water management problem, Codeine Sep 2015 #10

Thanks! I wish they'd get on it. yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #14

+1 lunasun Sep 2015 #21

+1 daleanime Sep 2015 #28

We can do both. We simply choose not to do the former. LanternWaste Sep 2015 #8

Why are senior citizens here faced 840high Sep 2015 #18

So true and I am a senior citizen Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #23

I understand. I'm almost 840high Sep 2015 #29

Because KentuckyWoman Sep 2015 #38

It's not just senior citizens anymore. ScreamingMeemie Sep 2015 #40

You are right. 840high Sep 2015 #41

I agree but there is one significant difference Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #43

That does not happen to just senior citizens. I am 45. ScreamingMeemie Sep 2015 #46

There are exceptions but when you are old and sick Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #47

When you are young and sick... same deal. ScreamingMeemie Sep 2015 #49

Agreed nt Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #50

the problem with the homeless in this country is complex hollysmom Sep 2015 #11

Thank Ronald Regan for closing mental health facilities Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #24

until caring/kindness is considered a virtue, wendylaroux Sep 2015 #13

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

did you ask to do something before the issue with refugees ? JI7 Sep 2015 #16

Take care of your own first. If we 840high Sep 2015 #17

More cheap labor inwiththenew Sep 2015 #19

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

Most of our foreign aid goes for arms not humanitarian needs. Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #25

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

We should and can do both. roody Sep 2015 #30

We damn sure can and should do both. onecaliberal Sep 2015 #31

I have always been a "Charity starts at home" thinking person and, quite frankly, believe that we Ghost in the Machine Sep 2015 #32

The exception I would make is where we start messes, we need to fix them. Cleita Sep 2015 #36

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

the entire Bush Junta should be assigned the burial detail - nt KingCharlemagne Sep 2015 #55

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

Agree. 840high Sep 2015 #44

We helped set the Middle East on fire cpwm17 Sep 2015 #33

Read the link below 840high Sep 2015 #34

It's not an either/or choice. SheilaT Sep 2015 #39

Military spending is our ONLY jobs program... haikugal Sep 2015 #53

My son tells a similar story Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #57

Maybe. A little. cheapdate Sep 2015 #42

we can do both, the money exists nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #45

The United States helped created the refugee crisis... SMC22307 Sep 2015 #48

There's no objective answer The2ndWheel Sep 2015 #51

There's enough money for that Facility Inspector Sep 2015 #52

We are NOT broke...we have money, as a country we're capable...we need a political revolution. haikugal Sep 2015 #54

I see your point, but then there are always homeless people treestar Sep 2015 #56

There are some programs Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #58

Yes, You are Wrong. Herman4747 Sep 2015 #59

In the abstract you are correct Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #60