[daniel1212]

The USA could learn a lot from the Spanish. Spain doesn’t have a welfare system. It’s so stingy that African refugees who land on the beaches here head straight to the French border. If you get sick and go to a clinic you either have to be a member, have insurance or have money to pay right away. If you don’t they turn you away. If you don’t work you either have to depend on charities or relatives. And then there is the cast of medical care in America.

I substantially agree with that, except for cases such as true victims, like people who are hit by drunks and left as invalids, and have no relatives to help them. But not because you were drunk and crashed, yet charities are to be promoted and cherished who help the helpless.

That cross was raised on town land to commemorate the expulsion of the Moors from Spain in 1489. Try putting a cross on public land in America.

I agree. The hyper separatists would be on it in one day, unless Founders such as Washington, etc.

One of the advantages of being an expat is that if everything falls apart you can just leave. Unless this pandemic destroys everything I don’t see us leaving for the rest of our lives.

Well, we are basically we are due to this being where God put us to do His work, and to seek and serve Him, though we would naturally rather be in a warmer climate. Thank God for His grace to sinners thru the Lord Christ and His sinless shed blood.

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I substantially agree with that, except for cases such as true victims, like people who are hit by drunks and left as invalids, and have no relatives to help them. But not because you were drunk and crashed, yet charities are to be promoted and cherished who help the helpless.

The injured and the helpless are taken care of by the state. The lazy, the poor by choice and the mothers who choose to have babies out of wedlock aren't. There is no "business" of welfare here like there is in the USA.