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Old German Woman Says It How It Is On Muslim Refugees [W:100]

Does anyone not yet know that not all Muslims are evil, or even bad? Many are concerned with those who are, and they are the problem.

The old lady seemed to make overgeneralizations in the video.

As for Muslims that are a problem, I for one am concerned with the guys the young shallow Albanian Muslims was hanging with. They were looking her in a disturbing way after she was talking.
 
Does anyone not yet know that not all Muslims are evil, or even bad? Many are concerned with those who are, and they are the problem.
Obama doesn't know that no one thinks all Muslims are bad.
 
Re: Old German Woman Says It How It Is On Muslim Refugees

GET THE FACTS!



For you perhaps, but that is not the case "on the ground".

You evidently have no idea whatsoever why these people "walked" from Turkey to Germany. Walked.

Most have spent the last few years eking out a living in UN Refugee Camps in either Turkey or Lebanon. A newer group is waiting at the Turkish border (closed to them) escaping the bombing by both Russian and Assad (president of Syria). And another 10 died yesterday trying to cross the straights that separate Turkey from the island of Lesbos (Greek).

And what about the IS? Yes, there are quite possibly amongst them some IS-jihadists. But is that a sufficiently good reason to prevent thousands of people from escaping a war-zone?

What ever happened to your sense of compassion? Or is it that you never had one ... ?
I never had one, at least not for terrorist sympathizers. You notice how the woman kept having to explain basic words to that terrorist apologist? Words like "incompatible"? Yeah. These terrorist sympathizers are tearing Germany apart.
 
The old lady seemed to make overgeneralizations in the video. As for Muslims that are a problem, I for one am concerned with the guys the young shallow Albanian Muslims was hanging with. They were looking her in a disturbing way after she was talking.
She's not a professional commentator. She's a 75 year old woman who just got off a train and the Muslim guy next to her was flashing a crude photo asking her if she liked it. That, coupled with the problems Muslims (she claims) are bringing to the neighborhood caused her to speak out. I commend her for it. Nor was she intimidated by the Muslims standing beside her. Although one young Muslim continually interrupted her, and seemed unaware of recent history, they kept their good nature and moved on.

And yes, the other two looked a bit sullen but let's remember that there is no humor in Islam.

For an elderly woman being interviewed at a train station I thought she did a very articulate job.
 
Obama doesn't know that no one thinks all Muslims are bad.
Obama's not alone. He and his sycophants always feel the need to explain that not all Muslims are terrorists. Won't someone just give him a shout-out that we all know that and isn't it time to finally move on?

Moreover those dummies who continually feel the need to point this out do so in a manner that suggests their insight is breaking news.
 
Obama's not alone. He and his sycophants always feel the need to explain that not all Muslims are terrorists. Won't someone just give him a shout-out that we all know that and isn't it time to finally move on?

Moreover those dummies who continually feel the need to point this out do so in a manner that suggests their insight is breaking news.

I'm not convinced that everyone does know that. For some, the term "Muslim terrorist" is a redundancy.
 
Re: Old German Woman Says It How It Is On Muslim Refugees

His power is all domestic..

I agree.

So why is Uncle Sam wasting 20% of its budget on the DoD? (Close to $600B this year.)

Guns or butter. Guns or butter. But not both ... and not 15% of American men, women and children living below the Poverty Threshold since 1965. That's 50 million people. The combined population of California and Illinois.

We need more "butter-spending" ... not "toys for our boys". And especially not that boondoggle of an F-35 ...
 
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I agree. So why is Uncle Sam wasting 20% of its budget on the DoD? (Close to $600B this year.) Guns or butter. Guns or butter. But not both ... and not 15% of American men, women and children living below the Poverty Threshold since 1965. That's 50 million people. The combined population of California and Illinois. We need more "butter-spending" ... not "toys for our boys". And especially not that boondoggle of an F-35 ...
Americans may be living in relative poverty but they are certainly not poor. Too many Americans seem to feel that living the good life is their birthright and that others should be paying for it. And of course many politicians will support this nonsense in order to get elected.

The US is at war right now even if many Americans don't seem to know it. Islamists aren't going to give you any free butter.
 
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Americans may be living in relative poverty but they are certainly not poor. Too many Americans seem to feel that living the good life is their birthright and that others should be paying for it. And of course many politicians will support this nonsense in order to get elected.

The "free lunch" is in fact the notion that any middle-class American can have his dream come true - 2.3 children and a house in burbs paid-for by a good job that never ends until retirement. In fact, that "dream" is universal.

The fact of the matter is that life does not always go according to plan; and economies gyrate up 'n down, up 'n down, up 'n down. Each new generation (every 30 years) seems to have to learn this lesson-of-life.

History Lesson: In Rome plagues took thousands upon thousands of lives because the Romans did not understand that defecation should not be thrown out the window and into the streets. And still, Rome was the first city on this planet to have more than one million people as residents. (In the Great Plague, hundreds of thousands died for the same reason across Europe.)

We've made a lot of progress since, so there is hope we, as a nation, will understand one day economic up- and down-turns are a fundamental part of living - just like the change in seasons.

The US is at war right now even if many Americans don't seem to know it. Islamists aren't going to give you any free butter.

The US is not "at war", which has become a useless dysphemism - the proper word is "conflict". There will always be such conflicts somewhere on the planet, but why that should be the constant refrain of a government justifying aberrant Defense Spending is beyond imagination. Our priorities should be elsewhere, and that elsewhere is obvious to the naked-eye.

Orwell's predictive "1984" is way, way behind us; there is no BigBrother reminding us about a constant-war out on the periphery of the nation. And there is no need whatsoever to spend 20% of the national budget on Boy'sToys (that the girls nowadays can also play with), when the nation's plight is actually far too much abject poverty. (50 million Americans below the Poverty Threshold.)

Let's "grow up" in America, shall we ... ?
 
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The "free lunch" is in fact the notion that any middle-class American can have his dream come true - 2.3 children and a house in burbs paid-for by a good job that never ends until retirement. In fact, that "dream" is universal.
It's also unrealistic. Another version of the American Dream is to have the freedom to be the best you can be. That one is still available to everyone, though some personal responsibility is necessary to achieve that dream.
The fact of the matter is that life does not always go according to plan; and economies gyrate up 'n down, up 'n down, up 'n down. Each new generation (every 30 years) seems to have to learn this lesson-of-life.
That's right, but politicians will tell the people they can do otherwise, that 'the rich' will payfor example, and on too many occasions people will believe them. Whose fault is that?
We've made a lot of progress since, so there is hope we, as a nation, will understand one day economic up- and down-turns are a fundamental part of living - just like the change in seasons.
There doesn't see to be a trend in that direction.
The US is not "at war", which has become a useless dysphemism - the proper word is "conflict".
Tomata tomato. The fact is that war is a normal state, that there has never been international peace and never will be. The best the civilized world can do is keep it contained.
There will always be such conflicts somewhere on the planet, but why that should be the constant refrain of a government justifying aberrant Defense Spending is beyond imagination. Our priorities should be elsewhere, and that elsewhere is obvious to the naked-eye.
If there were no defense spending the US would be quite a different nation than it s now, and that would true of the rest of the world as well.
Orwell's predictive "1984" is way, way behind us; there is no BigBrother reminding us about a constant-war out on the periphery of the nation. And there is no need whatsoever to spend 20% of the national budget on Boy'sToys (that the girls nowadays can also play with), when the nation's plight is actually far too much abject poverty. (50 million Americans below the Poverty Threshold.)
Orwell was brilliant but we also understand there is constant war. Following the collapse of the USSR Richard Nixon predicted that the mid East and Islam would then attempt to fill that vacuum, and we can see he was right. That is the natural order of things, and Darwin's theory still applies.
 
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It's also unrealistic. Another version of the American Dream is to have the freedom to be the best you can be. That one is still available to everyone, though some personal responsibility is necessary to achieve that dream.

The American dream is the same as the US Army slogan.

That's right, but politicians will tell the people they can do otherwise, that 'the rich' will payfor example, and on too many occasions people will believe them. Whose fault is that?

Quite often it's the rich who get paid. They do have the money, and therefore the power.
There doesn't see to be a trend in that direction.

The FDIC, unemployment insurance, and the like do help see to it that periodic recessions don't drop to the level of the Great Depression, however.


Tomata tomato. The fact is that war is a normal state, that there has never been international peace and never will be. The best the civilized world can do is keep it contained.If there were no defense spending the US would be quite a different nation than it s now, and that would true of the rest of the world as well. Orwell was brilliant but we also understand there is constant war. Following the collapse of the USSR Richard Nixon predicted that the mid East and Islam would then attempt to fill that vacuum, and we can see he was right. That is the natural order of things, and Darwin's theory still applies.

War is peace.
 
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If there were no defense spending the US would be quite a different nation than it s now, and that would true of the rest of the world as well.

I never postulated "no defense spending".

I have argued that in respect to the armed-conflicts (not "wars") the DoD-budget is a disproportionate expense as regards the necessity to protect American interests.

We can spend the money better elsewhere. For instance, on a low-cost educational system (primary, secondary, tertiary) that permits our people to exit poverty, get a decent job - and not turn to thieving to make a living or "keep up with the Joneses".

For as long as we are concentrated selfishly on our own personal lives, there will never be Social Justice in the country. We must understand the dependence we all have of one another in a market-economy that is presently dysfunctional in terms of to whom the rewards (of hard work) ultimately go.

They "trickle-up" to a select group of plutocrats ...
 
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