hotouthere » Sun Nov 15, 2015 5:24 pm wrote:Like Marie, I have been glued to the TV and am terribly upset over that whole ordeal that happened in Paris. It is difficult to put to words everything that I am feeling. The death and suffering of those victims was absolutely senseless.
Personally, the radical beliefs, ideals and any suggestion that those savage criminals have anything worthwhile to offer me or society as a whole is beyond my comprehension. Anyone who has any admiration, support them or wish to join them has never learned the basics of living a life that is of any value to themselves, their families or society.
While every time something happens and we learn ways to better deal with those incidences; the terrorists obviously are just creative and secretive enough to find other ways of attacking in places where they can do harm to unarmed, vulnerable, innocent victims. I do question what I feel was a lack of security for that music venue. But then, the fact that those guys were wearing explosive vests, just how effective more or armed security would have been is unknown. Obviously, the terrorists take advantage of the fact that reasonable, decent unarmed people don’t have the capacity to fight off a determined maniac who doesn’t care if he lives or dies.
The refugee crisis is another story and huge resources need to be put in place to control that situation. Unfortunately, these problems are extremely costly to deal with and our tax dollars can only go so far. The situation with illegal aliens entering our country from Mexico is not much different. It is not just a matter of keeping individuals out of our country; better laws are very much needed and must be enforced. I personally am against birthright citizenship. It is an antiquated idea and only encourages people to enter our country illegally or stay past legal time limits. We don’t have unlimited resources to allow every person enter and the ability of our society to absorb them is already stretched. I do believe in allowing people in for work purposes but not to stay permanently or become citizens without waiting a long period of time to prove that they are worthy of citizenship.
Our country must have ability to keep close track of aliens and immigrants. They must make sure that they are following our laws, working, paying taxes, learning English and making progress in assimilating into our society rather than breaking off into groups like gangs that separate themselves from what is viewed as normal, acceptable, law abiding, productive individuals in a modern, civilized society. I have worked with and am close to many people who are immigrants and my grandparents were immigrants as well. I do accounting for businesses who regularly must turn away illegal immigrants and who often give fake IDs that must be weeded out. My thoughts are very much influenced by personal experience.
Another area that we need to put much more money and effort into is making sure that all of our young men and women are educated, gain work related skills and have access to good jobs. Unfortunately, the United States is failing terribly when it comes to better funding of public schools, making college affordable and making sure that all of our children can become gainfully employed. When my parents were growing up, if they didn’t have the best grades or couldn’t afford to go to college, they had free access to trade school. Multiple, affordable education opportunities with paid internships, would benefit our children greatly. When young people are unable to work and support themselves, they loose themselves to drugs, despair and lawlessness and are vulnerable to evil elements who take advantage of them.
Thanks to all of you who have such caring and loving thoughts. I know I unloaded a lot of information here that has nothing to do with our lovely Adam, but the sharing of my mind here is very therapeutic.