03-27-2016, 10:42 PM
(03-27-2016, 09:36 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: HotD is cool with them being flown in, because she knows they're not going to SF.
Too expensive and where the hell would they put 5,000 of them in the Bay Area.
That's why it's easy to feel the way she does.
You don't think San Francisco has a very high homeless population, a lot of immigrants from all over the world (legal and otherwise), and one of the most socialist type economies in the country with a multitude of aid organizations?
You clearly don't know what the hell you're talking about, so you can just lick me, MS.
(03-27-2016, 10:30 PM)Cutz Wrote:(03-27-2016, 08:40 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: should absolutely include those coming for our ally Saudi Arabia, which has produced the lion's share of the extremist Islamic terrorists who've attacked us on our own soil to date - but never gets held accountable somehow
Is it really that surprising? When Saudi Arabia is a swing oil producer? Why would any politician worried about political capital ever take a hard stance against a potentially powerful world economic force.
It's like embarking on a platform against Switzerland because they have banking secrecy which benefits criminals. No legitimate candidate is willing to go out on that limb. It could hurt them.
No, it's not surprising. But, it's been a source of frustration to me for a long time.
On the plus side, just the other day I finally heard a politician (sorta) publicly echo some of my (and probably many others') sentiments on the matter.
On the minus side, it was...................you guessed it, Donald Trump.
Ah well, even the losers get lucky sometimes...