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Post by roadking on Aug 19, 2021 14:12:58 GMT
"The crisis in Afghanistan will resonate in Pennsylvania in the days and weeks ahead, as families fleeing the Taliban-led government will take refuge in resettlement areas here." "Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services works with refugee service contractors in seven cities to provide refugee assistance. Those cities are: Allentown, Erie, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Scranton. www.ydr.com/story/news/2021/...er/8184723002/Scranton...about 35-40 minutes from us...what could possibly go wrong? Meanwhile, US citizens are left behind still! |
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Post by mzgarden on Aug 19, 2021 15:22:54 GMT
I'm torn on this one - some of these (SOME) helped the US and are at risk. But, certainly not all and this is not going to end well I'm afraid because we don't know the difference.
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Post by sawmilljim on Aug 19, 2021 15:56:57 GMT
I'm torn on this one - some of these (SOME) helped the US and are at risk. But, certainly not all and this is not going to end well I'm afraid because we don't know the difference. Wonder why they helped the US ? Think it might have been the keep their head on their shoulders ? |
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Post by paisley2 on Aug 19, 2021 16:21:45 GMT
Just remember that vetting those folks are off the table but.....if you marched in DC on Jan 6th you could have your door broken and guns on you....or in jail with out even to have access to a lawyer.... Or your 12 year old daughter have 40 FBI guys break in you home and have a couple of red bead focused on you!
VETTING is what is missing.
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Post by sawmilljim on Aug 19, 2021 16:40:18 GMT
Did I miss something I thought the US was there to help them. Didn’t the US spend twenty years training a religious sect how to fight. You know the same training that US soldiers learn in half a year ?
Maybe after twenty years I forgot what the war was about.
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Post by fixitguy on Aug 19, 2021 17:34:50 GMT
The latest chain of events is just nuts. Were in for a LONG ride (If we can hold on) and I'm really starting to doubt it.
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Post by Tim Horton on Aug 21, 2021 4:48:39 GMT
Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services works with refugee service contractors in seven cities to provide refugee assistance.
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Get flown in, and given the golden ticket to housing, health care, money and everything needed..
Same here.. Cross illegal, get flown in and get it all free... Again... "The Golden Ticket"
Tell me again.... What do homeless citizens, children, and veterans get ?? ??..... Oh right..... Damn little if anything....
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Post by fixitguy on Aug 23, 2021 23:15:24 GMT
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Post by joebill on Sept 4, 2021 2:13:52 GMT
In a small way I understand helping refugees in ways we do not help folks that were born and raised here IN A VERY LIMITED WAY!
On the one hand, SOME of those refugees were a help to us while risking their own lives and have lost every single thing they own and do not have a clue how to earn a living and get housing and food and medical care here. A small boost to get them going is understandable.
On the other hand, you have Americans who have lived in the largest job factory in the world for decades prior to this time, where if it were possible and legal, companies would handcuff them to get them to go to work and earn a living and yet they still sit there only their fat ankles and refuse to go accept a job.
I DO recall back in the 60's, Canada was asking all of those draft dodgers who ran away from home like spoiled little boys to Canada exactly what use they were going to be to their new nation if they were allowed to enter.
I would truly LOVE it if before we gave anybody anything except the truly disabled somebody would make them write an essay on how they intended to transform their lives into lives that would benefit the nation that was saving their butts from starvation in the near future. I betcha half of them have never given it a thought!
In 1978, I took over the garage and wrecker service in a huge truck stop about 250 miles south of Chicago, and it was so busy I fell far behind on my paper work in a couple of weeks, simply because there was more to do than my dozen or so guys could accomplish in 24 hour days.
In the middle of this craziness, the gal who was supposed to be the personnel manager (HR today) came and demanded employee evaluations on all of my men, handing me the blank reports at change of shift so she could be as big of a pain as possible. I shut down all of the jobs for 10 minutes, handed each guy a report, told him to write his name on it and fill it out, hand it in, then get back to work, which made the HR gal LIVID! She maintained I should fill them all out myself, keeping the evaluations secret from the men. I told her that was no way to let them know what was expected of them, but they could evaluate the4mselves as to whether they showed up on time, fresh uniform, clean language around the customers, etc.
Not surprisingly, many of the guys improved a LOT after reading the points on which they were to be evaluated.....and they filled out those reports pretty honestly over all.
Too much to ask that we define a good citizen publicly, I guess.....Joe
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