That's what I keep saying! The GOP excuse for not helping anyone outside of our country is that we have our own poor people & homeless veterans in the U.S. Then when Dems want to help the poor in the U.S., they also say no! Now ask if they want to help single mothers that they forced to give birth.
Yep! It's the exact same people who always blame gun violence on "mental illness"... and yet they don't want to do anything about mental healthcare in this country either.
as someone that have worked with homeless people for over ten years, this is always how it goes, racists and asshats always scream about helping "their own" first but whenever I ask them to come to the shelter i worked at or to help put pressure on politicians to help more? or donate? nothing...
What I have discovered over the years is that weak people need another group of people to look down on and judge. Otherwise, they are left with just themselves to judge and that usually isn't pretty.
I'm going to go further & say, it's the very people who've squandered their own privilege who don't want to help refugees- because they feel entitled to that assistance.
Just like the people who don't want to send money to Ukraine because "America First" also are fine with completely dismantling departments and programs that help everyday Americans.
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The "we need to help our own first" or the "America First" crowd don't want to do those either.
As Christopher Titus has started saying "The billionaires have decided that those who have nothing have too much"