Syria is in the midst of a civil war.
As a result, thousands of refugees are fleeing the country.
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, many Governors have said they will no longer take any more emigrants.
Of course, Governors don’t make that decision and relatively few Syrians have been accepted by the U.S. so far.
Nevertheless, Gov. Wolf wanted to reiterate that Pennsylvania would continue to welcome these people in need.
We present the question to you our readers.
Should Pennsylvania Accept Syrian Refugees?
- No (52%)
- Yes (48%)
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29 Responses
Keep them out of here. Send them to Ireland or Uruguay, anywhere but here! We have enough problems with the blacks.
A resounding YES! We are constitutionally obligated to do so, anyway. People’s fears are unfounded and the push to limit immigration and against immigration reform is UN-AMERICAN. People need to get over their mean-mindedness and obviously need to understand this particular issue better.
I would like to postulate the idea that the attacks in Paris have, understandably, caused mass European protest against the “refugee” invasion that is occuring there precisely because that gives Obama urgent cause to “have” to increase the numbers we here in the US will accept. There is a concerted effort to dilute the cohesiveness of individual countries by destroying any and all sense of nationalistic tendencies that individual countries have regarding national pride in their culture. This is driven by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations for the purposes of driving every nation on the planet toward one global currency. They are dividing the world up into their own designed geopolitical spheres consisting of the European Union, which has already been accomplished, a North American Union, consisting of The US, Mexico and Canada, the Asian sphere of countries which is what the Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty (TPP) is all about, not sure yet how Africa, South America and India are configured, but once these zones are consolidated, there will no longer be “countries” . Much easier to impose one globel currency and control all of it under the governing body of the United Nations and a world court. We practically have that already. Did you ever ask yourself where or to whom all of the money goes when a multi national corporation gets fined billions of dollars, ie: BP, Volkswagon,? Who are these fines being paid to? Google Patrick Wood and Technocracy News, Daniel Estulin and the Bilderburg Group.
The religious war is already upon us! Thus, we must be religious and use our religious backgrounds to create justice.
It is both charitable and just that we take in refugees from terror and it is practical that we screen them carefully for those who might abuse our kindness and open society.
This effort must not be done in a naive way to prove ourselves to be greater than other nations. It must be done to create greater nations around the world.
Thus, I suggest that we take in the woman and children and put the able men into a fighting force to reclaim their nation! It is now a matter of protecting the innocent and launching those who had no means to fight for their nation’s justice into a way of establishing justice for their families in their homeland by the aid that we give them to win the war! Then they can rebuild their own nation toward also being able to take in those who may war in that region and do the same for them.
The true relationship to our own needs is to keep those who can make their livings here and arm and train those who can rebuild and alter the dangerous course of their own nation.
I can well understand that we cannot fight the wars or just feed those who run from them – but we must offer the real aid to them to build up their natural lands.
@philadelphian – the wealth you believe exists is an illusion, it has no foundation in substance, it is simply the federal reserve through Quantitative Easing (QE) 1,2,3 and 4 times in the recent past, which is the practice of digitally adding zeros to the federal reserve systems bank “reserves”. This is literally creating money out of thin air. Please search Mike Maloney and The Hidden Secrets of Money on you-tube. He has five 45 minute episodes on the history of money vs. what we have today which is paper “currency”, there is a big difference! The wealth of a nation is built on many things, one being its productivity, in that regard we have been seriously declining. The world is engulfed in a global currency war and the US dollar is a main target. Our “currency” system is based on its ability to make debt, we have a credit based economy, in other words we can not stop borrowing money! Its a house of cards and its about to collapse. Please buy some gold or silver,
Of the 750,000 refugees settled in the US after the 9/11 attacks, NOT ONE has been charged with domestic terrorism (two arrested, not charged). ~ The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/10/economist-explains-13
David Diano’s ignorance is exceeded only by his stupidity. The Middle East has NEVER been stabilized except under the bootheels of autocrats, be they kings or dictators. We didn’t help, true; but the British and French who drew the Balfour Declaration boundaries perpetuated instability (easier to rule with token military forces). Let them reap THEIR whirlwind.
We already have our “refugees:” 12 million illegal immigrants. The Syrians should stay home and fight (and, yes, die) for their country, as our forebears did in the Revolution and Civil War. Failing that, they should be housed in the Middle East, where there are vast desert spaces and enormous amounts of oil wealth. I have no problem with killing everyone in ISIS territory, men, women and children; that’s what they do. But I didn’t see Europe taking any of our Hispanics.
Based on UN definitions, the Syrians who would get to PA are NOT refugees, they are migrants. If they stopped in the first safe place they got to, they would retain “refugee” status.
NO!
Maslow’s Hierarchy pyramid explains it all….
What about our veterans? Our homeless? And how do we know these “refugees” aren’t security risks long term?
Regarding the jaw-dropping wealth of our country, I’ll add:
* We control one of every three dollars of wealth in the entire world, despite having only approx. 5% of the world’s population.
* Our wealth has been increasing dramatically, with an exception for the 2008 recession:
2000: $42.9 trillion
2005: $59.7 trillion
2010: $57.1 trillion
2015: $85.9 trillion
I’m not sure why many conservatives like to paint such a dour picture. I suspect it’s because it supports the idea that we can’t afford anything and have to cut back government.
@Blurred Conservative:
While I don’t agree with your arguments, I do agree that the personal attacks and wild, spurious accusations are way out of line. You don’t even need to defend yourself; the comments only denigrate the commenter.
Regarding the wealth of the U.S.: The fact is we are the wealthiest and it’s not even close. Here’s the list:
1) United States: $85.9 trillion
2) China: $22.8 trillion [spread over 4 times as many people]
3) Japan: $19.8 trillion
4) UK: $15.6 trillion
5) France: $12.7 trillion
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_wealth
Blurred Conservative: Thanks for your service and you may be a rare Conservative with a heart. But understand what is generally self-labelled these days is pretty heartless. Maybe you should stop lumping yourself with those folks, because they are giving you a bad name.
BC – In reference to your previous comment, the US is still high up on the list of wealthiest nations, and certainly the richest among large industrial countries. The reason it doesn’t seem that way is that our healthy middle class has been eroding away for decades now and the wealth is concentrated into a tiny fraction of the population that has managed to manipulate tax laws and government regulation to work in their favor. You’re right – for the vast majority of us, it feels like the country is poorer, because it is …for us. But overall, the US is just as filthy rich as it’s ever been.
Ok observer, glad you are the judge of people’s hearts. I hope you actually do humanitarian work and do not just have keyboard courage. Call me what you want, I know the good I do and prefer to make sure we take care of our own. And yes, when they move the refugees into my area, I will also provide them the humanitarian aid as well, hopefully you will as well. Talk and judgment is cheap. As far as cowardly, I have served my country and am a disabled veteran because of it, so cowardly I am not. Again, judge all you want, I know who I am and what good I do. I don’t lump all Liberals in the same boat, but if your ignorance does lump all conservatives in the same boat, that does say a lot about who you are as a person.
“Taking care of our own” = heartlessness. Un-Christian to the extreme, and cowardly. When the going gets tough, Conservatives reveal their true colors: yellow.
Busting on my views because I’m a conservative and saying I do not care about the homeless is out of line. I work with a homeless feeding ministry. I’d put my humanitarian work record in the US and around the world up against anyone’s. Being a conservative does not make me heartless. I just feel strongly we need to take care of our own. I’m also not sure we are the wealthiest nation in the world these days.
If you’re willing to open your own wallets and pocketbooks, so that we can fund them, and willing to open your homes so we have some place to put them (for as long as they’re here – or until they can find work and pay their own way) – I say, “Bring’em on.”
If you’re not – but want to use other people’s money and homes to make your wishes come true – I say, “Wake-up! This isn’t fantasy-land.”
I’m okay with women and children, but I’m mostly seeing grown capable me who should be back fighting for their own country instead of our children having to do it for them.
The fact that the US is only offering to take 10,000 refugees out of 1 million or more flooding out of Syria is a national shame. We could and should do more.
Slamming the door to safety on those fleeing from ISIS will only drive them into the arms of our enemies and add to the ranks of those that hate the West. If you cannot escape them, you may have to join them to survive.
@Blurred Conservative: We’re the wealthiest nation in the world, in the history of the world, by a long shot. We can afford it easily. It’s like if Bill Gates started crying poverty when he needs to step up in his community; it’s embarassing.
This isn’t a close question: ISIS’s attack in Paris makes it more important than ever:
The purpose of “terrorism” isn’t murder or conquering terrority, it’s to “terrorize” – terrorize people into doing what you want. ISIS couldn’t conquer a square meter of France or cause the slightest threat to survival of the French state – this isn’t the Nazi army – but look what they did with just 8 operatives in an hour: A billion people are terrified. The way to beat them is to not let them terrorize you or manipulate you.
ISIS wants to start a religious war the same way the nutcase who murdered all those people in the Charlotte, NC church back in June hoped to start a race war. ISIS could never achieve this level of hatred and division on their own – by sending out hateful messages, for example – but through terror they now have millions of people unwittingly following their plan. A race war in the US is out of the question, but people – even presidential candidates – openly talk about discriminating against Muslims. These people are literally ‘terrorized’.
The way to counter ISIS is to not be terrorized, but to render them powerless: Open our hearts and nation to Syrians and Muslims immigrants fleeing ISIS – draw the line not between one religion and another, but between peaceful people and criminal terrorists.
It’s esssential we stand up and send the message: In the U.S., you will be judged by your actions and character, not by your skin color, religion, or anything else. We’ve made huge progress in recognizing that for black and gay Americans, do we really need to learn the lesson all over again for Muslim Americans?)
Like well-trained goose-steppers, the conservative throng now care about homeless people in America. It’s the theme of every bigoted Facebook post today.
Last Thursday, homeless people were lazy criminals, abusing the system.
Kinda makes you wonder…
Seeing as how the US caused this by invading Iraq and destabilizing the mid-East… we should try to be part of the solutions for a change.
Our Country does enough and we can’t even take car of our own homeless. Now will we expend countless dollars on these refugees, but turn a blind eye to all the homeless and less fortunate in America. How are they going to be vetted, how naïve.
This country was founded on refugees and immigrants. To turn Syrians away because we fear that one of them might be a terrorist goes against everything this country stands for. They will be questioned and vetted before entering this country. If we deny them entry we should remove the Statue of Liberty because she will no longer represent who we are as a country.