compassion is an attitude of the heart....
Tell that to your grandchildren when you wake up in a Spanish speaking country where gringos are an ill-treated minority.One thinks and reasons with their God-given intellect ... and emotes with their "heart".
What this country needs ... if it is to survive ... is more thinking/reasoning and far, far less emoting.
And, if you are able to read my earlier post with an open mind, you will see that I have not suggested a lack of compassion for the hordes of illegal aliens. All I have suggested is that they be sent home and that the sovreignty of our nation be preserved from invasion.
Compassion? I see your post as compassion-babble in a futile effort to make yourself feel morally superior.
Idiot compassion is. Like the compassionate monkey that saw a fish and thought it was drowning so he took it out of the water and put it on the bank.
True compassion is understanding cause and effect in a man's life and knowing that only he can change the course of that. Loving kindness is being ready to help in any way possible. Wisdom is knowing how and when to help.
There is no compassion in filling a man's stomach or his pocketbook by relieving him of his responsibilities in life. Illegal aliens have abandoned their own house in order to be comfortable in ours. By so doing neither can be the master of his own house and both will be enemies in the street. This is our house, the U.S. of A., and it is our responsibility to set the rules in it.
The issue of a guest worker program is separate from the issue of illegal aliens. If illegal aliens take jobs from Americans (and they do) they take even more jobs from foreign nationals who apply by the legal route to work here and wait years for the chance. Illegal aliens steal that chance from them.
They are different groups of people, regardless of their country of origin, and the political issues that concern them are different in their effects and needs. Confusing the two may be lethal to our society, economy and sovereignty.
It would be nice to help everyone in the world lift themselves up out of poverty. But we cannot take that responsibility upon ourselves especially if we ignore our own welfare to the point that we are no longer prosperous.
Other nations of the world have an obligation to help their citizens every bit as much as we have to help ours. It is one thing to help other nations prosper it is quite another to relieve them of their own responsibilities. Beyond that it is simply not realistic to think that poverty can be ended around the world. We still have some in this great nation.
We must stop pandering to American employers who criminally employ illegal foreign nationals. Dry up the jobs and illegal foreign nationals will go home. Home where they can do what they must to put their house in order just as we must put ours in order. Enabling them in abandoning home and country and personal responsibility doesn't simply lack compassion it's cruel. It's a reward for the worst behavior a man can indulge in. Self-interest at all cost.