Syrian Refugees and the lies we tell to stop them.

There are a lot of MEMEs out there trying to confuse otherwise smart carring people into thinking the USA taking any Syrian refugees is the wrong thing to do.

Many are playing on the idea that we have to help our own people first. Many of the people spreading these ideas didn't give a damn about the homeless, veterans or the elderly until they needed a reason to deny help to a group they like even less. In other words they are using the people they didn't care about last week to stop the people they don't care about this week.

America is the greatest country in the world because it cares about people. Our at least that's the way it should be.

So let's talk about some of these MEMEs.

On the surface this one seems pretty on target.  Why would we deny our seniors a cozy of living increase.  That's outrageous.  Completely  ridiculous.

Until you realize the cost of living didn't go up last year. I mean the actual cost of living. It's called a cost of living increase because the coast of living has to go up to receive it. With the economy in recovery the cost of living went down last year.  That's why there is no cost of living increase.  It has nothing to do with refugees, dumbass!
 
From the Social Security Website: Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Information for 2016. With consumer prices down over the past year, monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 65 million Americans will not automatically increase in 2016.  

This one. Wow.  Yeah it truly does stuck that we are not taking care of our vets.  If our president thinks it's right putting refugees before vets he is very wrong.  I won't stand for this bullshit and neither should you. 

Except, it's the Republicans in the Senate that keep voting down aid for our vets. Democrats have put up many bills to help vets.  The president has publicly supported those bills and the Republicans have killed them.  In fact the GOP has voted at least seven times to not support the troops.

The same republicans who want to deny entry in to the US to Syrian refugees are the people denying aid to vets. The same people. 

If you told me two of them were poisoned? Depends, how do you know any of them are poisoned? Are you the damn grape expert? No, you are not the Syrian refugee expert either. So far we have not been attacked by a refugee. The right might want to claim the Tsarnev brothers were refugees, they were not. They were immigrants, not refugees. The vetting process for refugees is two years. Over 50% are rejected. Apparently it's a pretty good process.

Well except for this guy. Apparently I am way off base. That vetting process really screwed the pooch when it let this jack off into the country. In fact I take it all back! The only way to stop terrorists is to ban these foreigners.

Wait? What? He was born in the USA? Born in Arlington County Virginia? He wasn't vetted because we don't vet our own citizens? It's clear what we have to do then. We have to stop letting US citizens immigrate to America. That'll teach us.

Or, we can stop living in fear and be America.