Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Oct 4
th, 2015 at 9:42pm:
Lionel Edriess wrote on Oct 4
th, 2015 at 9:32pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Oct 4
th, 2015 at 7:01pm:
Lionel Edriess wrote on Oct 4
th, 2015 at 6:56pm:
Yes, people smuggling is illegal.
Paying people smugglers and seeking asylum isn't, though.
You do understand that, don't you?
Oh, absolutely!
One wonders, however, why these 'desperate' asylum seekers have the money (but not the paperwork) to pay smugglers and travel from one safe place to a country with a promise of guaranteed lifelong welfare support.
Indonesia would be a lot safer for a Syrian than an Australian at the moment.
Then again, the welfare support benefits for refugee Syrians here are probably a lot better than those available in Indonesia.
So, yes, I can see the multitude of problems facing the modern refugee.
It's the same problem being faced by all those 'Syrians' at the edges of the EU. "It's not my carpet business that's collapsed, why should I move?"
Easy! Throw away your ID and hop a train for Europe. Germany will give you better benefits, Sweden has blondes on the street - decisions, decisions.
Thank God for our oceans. Please God, we need direction.
Is resistance futile?
Resistance to what, you ask.
Why, domination, of course.
Who seeks to dominate?
Geez, that's a hard one!
Wouldn't you? I dragged a dead mother and infant possum off the road last night.... mother bolted across the road and a car hit both.... not me - I went back to see if the baby was alive....
We accept people and we accept unemployment and so forth and we offer them sustenance so as to secure some contributors to society in the future - that is why Social Security works - we pay them (so the theory goes, but not the practice) enough to live on until they become contributors to society.
Is it their fault that no real opportunity ever arises for them to fulfill that requirement, when government of two parties is dedicated to ensuring a current solid base of impoverished people, and then an increasing base of poverty, as long as it suits the offshore tax haven 'global economy' that enriches a few at the expense of the many?
But what real rights do those 'leaners' have anyway?
You misunderstand.
This country has a maximum sustainable population of about 26 million. We're already there.
All we have in this country is the green fringe around the edges - the mines have already been stripped, for the moment.
Do your due diligence, bro. The USA has gotten as big as it is because of its natural fecundity and the fact that it was discovered and established long before the first colony on these shores.
America was minting coins before Australia was even settled.
If Australia was like America as far as water, arable land and timber resources were available at its time of settlement, perhaps we'd be a different type of 'white man' and a different nation today.
Fact is, we is what we is because it's tougher here than a lot of other places.
Our national character has been shaped by hardship and mateship. Talk to Nino Culotta and Hieu Van Le about assimilation and how they felt.
We need new people to this country, this scant minimalist country, to love and adapt to the country and society that has offered them shelter and sustenance.
It's been tough for us, and we've only been for 200 years - and we're still fighting with the Abo's.
Small wonder - fit in or fork off.
Everyone forgets to mention, once Australian- always Australian.