Obama Welcomes Syrians

Obama opens the doors of the US to more Syrians. More people on the government teet.

"The Department of Homeland Security on Monday issued new regulations that will allow more Syrian refugees to temporarily settle in the United States."
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Good.

what should we do? let 'em die?

it's only by accident that you are here and they are there. rest assured it's not because something beyond the sky likes you more than them. there is no comparison between the poverty here and what goes on in places like syria.

Maybe we could skim a few thousand off of what we sent Israel every year to take care of them.

The New Colossus


Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"


--Emma Lazarus, July 22, 1849–November 19, 1887, the child of Sephardi Jewish parents who had settled in New York during the Colonial Period, before the revolution.

She is a Daughter of the American Revolution, a proto feminist, a proto Zionist, and above all, a humanist. She gave a voice to the statue, a conscience to New York, and a human dimension to the actual people who sought and gained blessing at her entry

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