Pope Francis celebrated mass on the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Monday to commemorate thousands of migrants who have died crossing the sea from North Africa, underlining his drive to put the poor at the heart of his papacy.
Yeah. Stop offering a free social safety net. Government incentives kill.
Why commemorate the dead? Here was an opportunity to condemn the governments that produced these desperate people
If Tunisia, Libya, and Algeria weren’t such basket-cases, these poeple wouldn’t be risking the crossing. Well, certainly fewer of them would. Lampedusa is a tiny, resource-limited island and during the Libyan uprising two years ago was practically over-run with refugees.
As an aside, Lampedusa is an absolute jewel of the Mediterranean and I highly recommend it for a place to truly get away from it all (I think they finally got an ATM last year!). Not so easy to get to but worth the trip.
What you mean "we", paleface?