"The countries suffering most economically (based on GDP), because of refugees are to be found in Africa. On an economic bases Australia comes 94th in the World."

So what ideas do you have in mind to prevent this Australian suffering due to refugees that you've brought attention to?
What action or actions could we take to say get out of that top 100 group of countries?
With some changes we could maybe move to 120 or even 150, meaning we'd be much less economically impacted than we are now.

- Oh that's right, my mistake -
I forgot for a second we live in a bloody upside down world and what you're actually arguing for is to promote an INCREASE to the economic impact or burden right?

If you want to go shoot yourself in the foot fine, I implore you to go do it.
But I'd really appreciate it if you didn't shoot me in the foot as well.

How about this instead?
'If you believe in it, then you pay for it';
- Out of your own money, and not by helping yourself to other peoples wallets and purses.

AC, I don't see the logic;

//How about this instead?
'If you believe in it, then you pay for it';
- Out of your own money, and not by helping yourself to other peoples wallets and purses.//

I am a pacifist myself and a taxpayer, so should I be able to indicate to the government where my taxes are being spent. Possibly a check list to tick when doing our tax returns. I will not be ticking the war mongering box, laughingly called defence spending, I assume you are a believer in such, you will have no need to tick the refugee spending box. You seem to be happy to help yourself to my wallet when it suits you (through taxation) but deny me the same right, can I suggest the same goes for all.

I don't see the logic;
Paul1405,
Finally ! Will that realisation result in an improving of your mentality now ?
I'm thrilled you plagiarised my idea of stipulating where our Tax Dollars should be spent because when I first brought up the idea ages ago I got a cold shoulder from OLO'ers !
Unfortunately, Defence is not keeping our worst enemies out because they don't come with guns. They acquire them here during their silent, gradual build-up. Our leftists in authority are to insipid to realise that.

Great idea Indy, but I'm sorry about your massive pension cut!

For many years I have witnessed the foolish and self destructive, counter productive, attitudes and some cases, actions of the left, bleeding hearts brigade.
Now in the right places it's quite endearing and nice to see, but, looking at the bigger picture, I see a world of averace, greed, arrogance, and self preservation.
The latter is the only one which we must never take our eye off.
If we go down the path of being too charitable, we run the risk of being taken advantage of.
Some would scoff at such a suggestion.
Well it is happening right here, right now.
I have sponsored people in the past and based on my experience, of the two I helped, one went on to being productive and integrated very well.
The other went on to become a thief, con-man and worse.
The blame for this falls squarely on my shoulders.
In an attempt to pacify me friends have said that he would have found another way of getting in to Aus, if that was always his intention, but that's no consolation to me because someone else didn't help him, I did!
And my feeling is look what I have done, if I would have not helped him, there would be one less scumbag here to cause people problems, financially at least.
In looking at this simple example, I wonder how the odds have stacked up over the years of taking in foreigners?
How many undesirables have we let in?
The do-gooders will prefer to look at how many 'desirables' we let in instead.
What they so ignorantly fail to see is that even one undesirable is un-acceptable, so why would we go out of our way to make life harder for ourselves by inviting even one of them, because we don't know who they are or what they look like until it's too late?
Isn't life hard enough already?
This brings to mind the saying that 'the 'meek' shall inherit the earth', when we clearly can see and know that the opposite is the case, or the truth!
Objectivity not subjectivity!

ALTRAV,

Remember, in your previous post, you used the word 'insane'. You cannot reason with insane people. Particularly when they are in thrall to neo-Communist propaganda put out by SBS, ABC, the Red Press, and feral academics who get into universities with very low scores.

There are a couple of people on this site whose mental capacity might very well prove to be wanting if they were professionally examined. All we can do is adopt an attitude of, 'but for the grace of God, there go I'. (John Bradford, 1510-1555. He actually said 'There go John Bradford', but we can't all call ourselves John Bradford).

Of course, it's always amusing to experience these very few people prattling on with the same thing, totally oblivious of the fact that they are saying the same thing all the time. People actually used to go to Bedlam lunatic asylum in England to be entertained by the inmates; we can do it from the comfort of our armchairs.

Look at some of the garbage we get here as entertainment that we can enjoy occasionally or ignore as it suits us.