People whose guiding principle in government is “compassion” are dangerous. We can’t let the whole world into our country. We can’t give all of South America Welfare, housing, Food Stamps and Obamacare. If Laura Bush gets all teary-eyed over children living in a clean facility and being properly fed, then I wonder how she gets when she sees the condition of most of the children who are still in the Third World, starving to death, living in slums, with no families, being preyed upon by adults. Its a shame and an outrage but we can’t pay to stop it all. We are spending well beyond our finite resources, in part because of her dopey Compassionate Conservative husband and dopey Thousand Points of Light father-in-law.
If Laura Bush is really this worked about it, she can give up her life of going to Republican Women’s Teas and cocktail parties and give up her mansion in Texas and vacationing in Maine, and get her husband to give all their money to some refugee relief organization and she can spend her time helping the refugee children. Until she does that, she’s just another wealthy dilettante who feels more than she thinks.
Even Hitler had “Compassion” for the German people.
Excellent post. And yes, most people would give anything to see kids not suffer. Their parent chose this course. OUR people need help first.