Come on now fancynancy, it is the taxpayer, my kids, who pay this ladies salary, so it is they who pay any tax that is taken from that salary.

Bureaucrats don't pay tax, they just go through a pretend game, so real taxpayers don't get upset quiet enough to start demanding those bureaucrats are paid what they are worth.

Aren't some comments revealing? Demonstrate a complete lack of any awareness, not to mention experience-their own or other's, of courage. The self satisfaction says it all. Combined with a complete lack of ability to walk even a meter in someone else's shoes makes for an angry bitter human. Some of you need get out of your comfort zone and have some conversations with people other than those who you love to feel all self righteously indignant with.
Still, amazing an article like this is posted on this site and hail to the author for wanting to do it.

yvonne "Aren't some comments revealing?"

Yes, and yours reveals you have nothing to offer.

"a complete lack of any awareness, not to mention experience-their own or other's, of courage."

It doesn't take courage to run away.
It takes cowardice.

Get out of *your* comfort zone, yvonne.
Have a conversation with someone other than your smug leftie pals and their cookie cutter "correct" opinions.

@Yvonne

<< Some of you need get out of your comfort zone and have some conversations with people other than those who you love to feel all self righteously indignant with.

ROFLMAO

The most polished exponents of "self righteous indignation" I have seen on OLO are in the open-borders/we-owe-the-world camp.

Actually, the whole article,"An open letter from a reluctant refugee" --when viewed from a distance --is a sneaky bit of self righteous indignation.

Yvonne, been there done that love.

I spent years in the Pacific islands. Some of my friends are so black that they look almost dark blue. So what I'm colour blind when it comes to people. That doesn't stop me seeing a rip off of our youth.

You know, those friends never wanted someone else to pay their way.

Some of you who responded to my posting, are so emotional. Be a bit more rational and try not to flame up as if you've been prodded by a hot poker.

Shockadelic, do try to talk with some people who do not agree with everything you say without immediately classifying them and then dismissing everything they have to say. Isn't that what an open forum is all about? To test your beliefs and knowledge of different subjects? I know it might make your world not quite as certain and as neatly coloured in black and white as it is right now, but it does make it so much more interesting.

Hasbeen, you've been one bitter one for all the years you've been posting on this forum. Good for you, knowing people who are so black, they are almost blue. I'm not altogether sure what value that bit of info has, but I'm sure it does in your world view.

SPQR has always been really easy to ignore. You're not even trying. ROFLMAO? You're one cool with it dude....; Use LOL a lot too?