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The World in a Mess





I’m sure no one would disagree with me when I say, “ The world is in a mess.” But how should we react to this?  It is so easy to sit comfortably in front of the T.V. and because there is the need to protect oneself, to calmly eat tea whilst watching the most awful scenes. A large dose of denial helps one brush it all aside as happening a long way away. However problems are coming home to roost.  Migrants are invading our borders and expecting to be assimilated into our own countries.  Who is responsible for all the chaos in the world?  We all are, our collective sinfulness causes all these problems.  The Western world is responsible for grabbing more than its share of the natural resources of other lands and thereby causing the poverty of millions. The chickens are definitely coming home to roost. However many migrants are not a drain on the country.  There are many immigrants keeping our health service, in Britain, from crumbling.  The government are talking of bringing in a law that says after immigrants have been here six years, if they have not reached a certain level of pay they will have to leave.  Obviously they have not thought this through properly as it would mean us losing thousands of nurses. Always, it seems, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

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