The plight of refugees

            One can argue we in the new world USA have little experience with political refugees.  One can also argue we have little experience with refugees fleeing (like crossing national borders) to get away from human misery in their lands. Often it is for their Families as much as themselves.

            By the way, I have often lived in hovels not as good as some of them, so I can be a hard ass, too.

            The recent cross border fights between Jordan and Syria come to mind.  The misery in Zimbabwe is another good example.

            And these people need to eat, too, plus pee and poop, too. Said another way, it is probably of benefit to the receiving area to host these refugees as best they can. Nobody wants criminality or diseases spreading into their neighborhoods.  Hence the dilemma, and maybe even a dose of personal and government aloofness helps, too.

            Now I do think we new world USA types have experience with both nice people, and criminals;  who both cross boundaries to provide their Families hope and a better life than they left behind; or more dastardly things back home for the criminals, like death or incarceration.

            This group is popularly clumped together and called "illegal aliens" in the new world USA, or other more politically correct things these days.

            And here locally in east Tennessee, we have a good share of these type of people, who get my respect for being hard working and Family oriented, and mostly Catholic, by the way. Now a lot of these men do screw around on their wives (not all by the way, but for those that do, it also takes a complicit female, too) , in my opinion. And the Mexicans do dislike the Guatemalans, and vice versa, so some things may have only transferred here from other lands.  And they also do have the scourge of drug addicted people, like almost everywhere in the new world USA, I imagine.

            Yet I remind the readers that we also have a lot of people in the new world USA, here legally, usually born here,  and also of need of help to get ahead for their Families and their sake. Yep, we also have a fair share of lazy people who also live off the government dole, which means to me they live off of the taxes we pay, which are vast.  That idea of helping others is probably what makes the new world USA so great, especially compared to the rest of the world; that is we let government get involved, too, and suffer the abuses, too. Now that is not a bitch against the rest of the world, but more a braggart idea about what the new world can and is doing for refugees.

            And in the same vein, there are many young people who make damn fine Marines, and I personally am proud of them, as well as all other damn fine Marines from all places in this vast country.  Good on the Moms and Dads who made and raised them.

            Yep, we can be a busy place in the new world USA, too. That includes thanking goodness for all we do have, plus maybe even helping others as best we can. Especially if it is to our benefit.