Posted on 02/02/2020 12:15:37 PM PST by Kaslin
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is in Iowa doing last-minute campaigning on behalf of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). During an event in Clive Iowa, Omar explained how her idea of the "American Dream" were shattered once she came to America.
“When I first came to the United States, I remember one of the first things that I saw was homeless people sleeping on the sides of Manhattan when we arrived in New York. And I remember turning to my father and saying, 'This doesn't look like the America you promised.' And my father looked at me and said, 'Hush, child, we are going to get to our America,'" Omar recounted. "Because the America we were shown in the orientation tapes when we were coming here from the refugee camp in Kenya had beautiful homes with white picket fences, happy families eating a full meal in their beautiful living rooms. It had happy children getting on the bus to go to their beautiful schools. It had pictures of amazing malls, megamalls, and had pictures of beautifully built bridges and highways. It was a picture of abundance. Now that is the ideal."
"That is the America we all know we deserve but our reality is full of homeless people. Our reality is full of families who have moms and dads who are going without dinner or lunch or breakfast just so that they can have enough for their children," she explained. "Our reality is full of kids who are showing up to schools that are full of mold and leaking rooftops. Our reality has children who are facing drills every single day to learn about how they can escape being shot in our schools."
Omar seems to forget that the areas that are being overrun with homeless people – like San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City – are all cities under Democratic mayors and legislators. Homelessness isn't a new phenomenon. L.A. has always had "Skid Row," an area in downtown that has become infamous because of its condensed homeless population. Democrats continually cite areas like Skid Row or even Downtown San Francisco as an area they want to "clean up" and "fix." What do they do? Throw our taxpayer dollars at the problem but they never get to the root cause of the issue and why people are homeless to begin with. Is it because people fell on hard times and couldn't afford a house or an apartment? Did someone get involved in drugs and they're living on the streets so the money they'd spend on housing can go towards their drug habit? Does mental illness play a role in a person's instable living conditions?
In fact, Dr. Drew Pinsky has repeatedly said the people on Los Angeles' streets are people who are "chronically mentally ill" and they fail to receive treatment. That's a place for Democrats to start instead of launching poop patrols like San Francisco did.
Instead of coming to America and blaming the country for not living up to hear fantasy, Omar should be looking at her party for failing to give her and her family the "American Dream" they were promised.
They shouldn’t have moved into a shithole Somali neighborhood.
Exactly.
When I was a lot younger than 10, I would see the homeless regularly on my trips to NYC to see family. I understood quite well then that they existed due to their poor choices and or because the state hospitals turned them out. My family explained as much to me.
It would not take much to explain to a 10 year-old coming to this country how few homeless exist relative to the population and why they are homeless and to drive them around to various neighborhoods of varying property values and explain the correlation of the level of homes to the industry in the area.
One lunatics dream is another man’s nightmare . . .
The chief cause of poverty in any country, including ours is poor people having children.
For example: 2 poor people have 5 children. That equals 7 poor people.
The big difference is, in this country there is opportunity for poor people to become well off, and that is what we strive for as Americans.
In other countries like Somalia that opportunity doesn't exist.
Omar should realize that.-Tom
Then go back to Somalia, and let the plague of locusts cover your useless body.
More muzzie taqiyya? Likely.
This clown should be arrested, stripped of American citizenship, and returned to the sand pit from whence she came.
Deportation would serve the American people just fine.
Do IT!
Now, GTFO of our country, you raghead POS!
Easy-peasy to solve. And...don’t forget to close the door on the way out, please.
Omar is coo coo for coco puffs.
This criminal wretch broke immigration laws, illegally married her brother, played loose with campaign funds and is an anti-American loser. To top it off she “earns” $180,000 per year with incredible benefits. Arrest this criminal, shred her citizenship and passport...deport her.
And this Somali moslem whore has the audacity to complain about the "American Dream"?
If I were to be frank about my wishes for this whore I'd be banned from FR...and might even get a visit from the FBI,because it's now well known that wishes,as well as acts,are of interest to today's G-Men (at least the leadership).
Is the Solomi population inthe US a positive taxpayer base or a burden. If you are not part of the solution and rather freeloaders STFU.
As privileged as she and Kaepernick are, they’re going to complain? She wants control through guilt and supplication. That’s exactly it.
Admittedly Manhattan is no Mogadishu
Why are we investigating Trump when Omar likely committed felonies? Minority privilege is going to enslave America, particularly when extended to Muslims.
Yet they never want ,o leave, do they
My dream for her is to be doing the Mussolini dance off the nearest lamppost.
“When I first came to the United States, I remember one of the first things that I saw was homeless people sleeping on the sides of Manhattan when we arrived in New York.
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