nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

I would say so!

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

good for you.

But what sort of system is at work down in Texas?? I always thought Texas was fairly good state, as states go.

In Minnesota, when the needy are treated, the medics are paid via one program or an other.. as they should be..

We also have many food banks, homeless shelters are available and each winter more shelter is provided..

charity is fine.. but to get the job done requires more than the local church of organization can do. So I think my taxes are well spent on being more practical at this particular job..

I see nothing unconstitutional about providing care for the needy..

Yes, we also have homeless camps..

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Use of federal tax dollars to pay for the illegals needs is unconstitutional. States can do what they want and frankly, I doubt Minnesota has a fraction of the problem Texas has with illegals.

RT friend Loc: Kangaroo valley NSW Australia

I will check out the memoirs of Talaat Pasha, it sounds like the sort of stuff Tanner Akcan recorded "A Shameful Act" some things are incomprehensible to people who haven't endured such horrors, even underwear was removed and used.

I don't believe there was ever a serious attempt at punishment, if there was some at least Armenians would have returned, from what I understand they were not allowed to.

The Youg Turks began their massacre of Armenians in 1909 and by 1915 there were 1.3 million Armenians killed so they couldn't come back, but the Armenians Communities in Syria were the result of survivors so some could have returned and Armenians living outside of the Ottomon Empire could have swelled the ranks of the 400,000 Armenians that stayed in Turkey.

Armenians from the Soviet Republic could have taken possession of Armenian property on behalf of the dead, instead the Young Turks engaged in Civil War with the Ottoman old guard the British were supposedly supporting the Sultan who was again recognized as the Legal Authority in 1918.

I think the British lost on purpose, the fact that they sent troops probably didn't mean much, I don't know how many never went home.

But I will check out the secular account because it was Churchill that rejected Turkish approaches to side with the Allies, Churchill just wanted to grab Ottoman wealth, hence the Arab revolt that really won the war for the Allies because the Indian Muslims became leaderless which allowed the Palestinian campaign that conquered Jerusalem , General Allenby enters Jerusalem December 1917 Arab Revolt was June 1916

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

You know way more about it than I do!

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Well that is correct, we only have a few compared to Texas.. but I did not intend to limit my comment to only illegals from south of the border..

If unconstitutional, and not provided by the feds, the states have much less money, where would the money for needs come from?

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Charity: People helping people. People helping themselves.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

The great motivator is for the states to work with people to help them find legitimate work to become self sustaining. A big reason so many are NOW coming in is for the "free" stuff. I have found that those who went through the correct immigration process are very hard workers, very family oriented, very committed to having self respect and take pride in themselves. The folks who take advantage of the system we have right now can be spotted a mile away by their attitudes, how they speak, what they say, even their body language.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Never works out, while charity can handle the local problem, in the event of storms, earthquakes, or refugees, immigrants; legal or other wise, the needs are beyond the capacity of charity to deal with..

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

A lot of what you say is correct..

But we can not overlook those who are driven out of homes by war, climate change or other disasters..

This looks as if it will all git worse rather then better in the next decades..

Perhaps we should make new rules to deal with it..

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Of course, that is a different story.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Not a single person has been driven to our borders by climate change.

RT friend Loc: Kangaroo valley NSW Australia

It is about Prophet Abraham's Religion, must be, otherwise the Kurds wouldn't be playing up at the same time as Climate Change and the Concentration of Wealth making economics disfunctional due to Neo- Malthusianism which is abortion population control same sex marriage and the end it the Techno Industrial era where inventions don't add up to conservation of energy any more.

Also Dark Matter and Dark Energy proves it because both are leading the same Party which has thumb on the code for Goodby Charlie.

Trump is Dark Matter holding the Universe together and Mike Pence is Dark Energy pushing the Universe into Kurdish red-shift territory.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Perhaps not, but it had some to do is IS recruiting when the drought ended farming for a lot of people as a way to live. they had little choice but to join the armed insurgents..

When you can no longer even grow melons, your choice are few and far apart..

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

It's an arid desert region. What do you expect. it requires irrigation and can only be done in certain regions. Areas cannot be settled based upon a few good years but that is what happens. Man is not the cause of that. And, they did and do have a choice of joining groups like ISIS.