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Vermont Residents Don’t Want To ‘Foot The Bill’ For Syrian Refugees
The Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | January 2, 2017 | Saagar Enjeti

Posted on 01/02/2017 10:04:02 AM PST by kevcol

Some small-town residents of Rutland, Vt. are upset at their mayor’s decision to resettle 100 Syrian refugees throughout 2017 in the area.

Rutland Mayor Christopher Louras defended his decision, saying the town’s demographics are declining, and they are having trouble recruiting younger workers. He also thinks refugees will bring cultural diversity.
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Louras’s decision sparked outrage among some residents who say they had little say in the mayor’s decision, which would effect them all.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: islam; muslims; refugeeresettlement; refugees; rutlandvt; syriarefugees; vermont
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To: kevcol

They are having trouble recruiting younger workers. ........................ Really? Is that why they are leaving the area, because there are jobs? Its worse further north in the dairy areas. Is it any wonder why there is a drug problem up there? Where are the jobs? We don’t have enough people unemployed, so we need to bring in more from outside the country who have no knowledge of our language. LOL, can the Rutland PD handle the future no go zones? Agggggrrrrrrr.


41 posted on 01/02/2017 10:48:38 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (???? My tag line dissappeared. ???)
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To: kevcol

Gee, didn’t they vote him in? They are getting what they voted for then ans should just accept their poor choice. Elections have consequences. Soon they will be outnumbered and will have a Muslim mayor.


42 posted on 01/02/2017 10:49:35 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

As always liberals are OK if you have to pay, or take the ‘refugees’ or give up your guns or etc etc etc. Theyre not all that intereted in doing it themselves.


43 posted on 01/02/2017 10:50:45 AM PST by 556x45
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To: kevcol
saying the town’s demographics are declining

Hey Chris, here's a hint:

- Make it easy for people to start and run businesses - Stop supporting Abortion and promoting contraception

It was guys like you and the enviro-nutcase gang who spent the past 45 years being hysterical about "overpopulation" anyway. Now you want more people? Guess all that crap was really about "overpopulation of white Christian people"?

44 posted on 01/02/2017 10:51:00 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Regarding secrecy requested by Amila Merdzanovic, executive director of the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program, to Mayor Christopher Louras...

I want to share with you the concern my HQ has about holding a public forum. If we open it up to anybody and everybody, all sorts of people will come out of woodwork. Anti-immigrant, anti-anything. They suggest that the forum be invite only but make it as wide as possible. Work with faith leaders, United Way, etc… Perhaps, we could go back to the Congregational Church and continue the conversation there...


45 posted on 01/02/2017 10:52:02 AM PST by MurrietaMadman
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To: kevcol

The title needs a rewrite to :

Some Rutland, Vermont residents refuse to pay jizya (infidel tax) !


46 posted on 01/02/2017 10:52:31 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu-> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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To: Cubs Fan

That’s a great question. I recall Obamadishu attempting to strong-arm Gov. Abbott of Texas. Correct me if this is wrong, but it sounds like Abbott says, HELL NO. Behind his back, in secret, some of the mayors of places from places like Houston & Austin want the $$$ and are willing to sell out and enjoin with lib federal resettlement policies. (Read post #19- The VT mayor negotiated with the feds in secret.)

That corruption of power needs to stop. The mayors and all other state employees are accountable to their governor and state, not fed-gov. That relationship needs to end of skirting state laws to grab money from fed-gov and flaunt state laws and the wishes of the people of Texas or Vermont or Georgia or Minnesota.

The conflict lies with the fact that state funding (educational, medical, transportation) is necessary to support each invader. This can’t continue unabated in our lands. It demonstrates yet another way of going around the voice of the people of a state, by individual unqualified leftist political hack judges or by the mayors elected to serve a city within a STATE.

The federal government is bribing the mayors of cities within whose states they can not control.


47 posted on 01/02/2017 10:55:27 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: kevcol
You can actually put flesh on this:

These lovely "progressives" are already in Vermont and happy to have such a large group of victims available to them.

48 posted on 01/02/2017 10:55:51 AM PST by Regulator
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To: kevcol

Ben & Jerry Land exhibiting NIMBYism.

Good for thee, but not for me!


49 posted on 01/02/2017 10:56:36 AM PST by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: kevcol

Not a problem Vermonters...

Just celebrate National Bacon Month early...and for a year.


50 posted on 01/02/2017 10:58:08 AM PST by moovova
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To: Bringbackthedraft

trouble recruiting younger workers?????

BS. Plenty of Americans would love to have a job.

They are liars who are being bribed to accept people their community does not welcome.


51 posted on 01/02/2017 10:58:41 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

good post, thanks


52 posted on 01/02/2017 11:02:52 AM PST by Cubs Fan (Trump and Brexit 2016--The year the good guys won. Remember it.)
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To: MurrietaMadman; kevcol; Regulator; Liz

Merdzanovic later told the Boston Globe that the hidden talks were “the right thing to do — to move slowly, keep it to a small circle of people, and then expand.”

April, 2016, she wrote to the director of the State Refugee Office about her coordination with the mayor to keep the resettlement program secret:

He did share with me that the Governor’s office called him after getting a frantic call from DOL [Vermont Department of Labor] inquiring about the plan to resettle ‘100 Syrians in the next month’ in Rutland.

Again, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of not sharing the information even if it is confidentially. Please respect our process, you will have plenty of opportunity to share and take action once we have met with the stakeholders. At that point we can and will share it widely. It will not serve any one of us well if the community in Rutland learned about it through the grapevine and not directly from us. The above example shows that what people hear and how they interpret it is two different things.

We are to assume that the governor’s office (Shumlim) of Vermont was unaware they were bringing potential unvetted terrorists into his state? Obviously his DOL was not informed.


53 posted on 01/02/2017 11:06:02 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: Regulator

And may have already learned how the escalator works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVz3GgAWUyM


54 posted on 01/02/2017 11:06:43 AM PST by MurrietaMadman
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To: MurrietaMadman

MM, Are you by chance from Murrieta, CA where the city stood down and refused bus loads of migrants a few years ago?

California town turns away buses of detained immigrants ...
www.cnn.com/2014/07/02/us/california-immigrant-transfers/index.html

Jul 03, 2014 · National controversy over a surge of Central American immigrants illegally crossing the U.S. border establishes a new battleground in Murrieta, California.


55 posted on 01/02/2017 11:11:16 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: kevcol

But as liberals Vermonters want everyone to pay for their social programs, abortions, condoms, etc.


56 posted on 01/02/2017 11:14:54 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: MamaDearest

Hillary Clinton (D) - 61.14%. Donald Trump (R) - 32.62%

Don’t forget that Bernie Sanders (Democratic Socialist) got 5.67% as a write-in.


57 posted on 01/02/2017 11:20:22 AM PST by Skepolitic
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; GOPJ; Tennessee Nana; AuntB; TADSLOS; Grampa Dave; tired&retired; ...
The Syrian refugees flooding into VT will receive an initial stipend from the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Trump needs to cut these tax dollars off ASAP.

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Obama ignored the concerns of state governors and began delivering violent Third World malcontents, en masse to almost every state, a steady stream of Somali, Syrian, Afghan, Iraqi and Burmese Muslims.....not to mention the Central America crowd rife with communicable diseases.

All of them are sucking tax dollars off the backs of taxpayers, all of them voting for Hillary (whether they know it or not).

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58 posted on 01/02/2017 11:21:25 AM PST by Liz (The Clintons' embracing humanitarian relief is like the Sopranos' embracing waste mgmt.)
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To: vette6387

Have they thought of stop voting for stupid?


59 posted on 01/02/2017 11:25:00 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: Liz

Jeh

Meh


60 posted on 01/02/2017 11:25:19 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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