THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

Solving the Syrian Refugee Crisis By Jeff Gardner Director of Operations Restore Nineveh Now The ongoing surge of refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Asia pouring into Europe has caught some EU countries, and most media, by surprise, despite the fact that the pressure driving this spike has been building for years. While the current number of refugees who have poured into Europe this year is somewhere between 150,000 to 200,000, these numbers are just a trickle compared to the flood of people that could come if the root causes of this migration are not addressed. To get a handle on these causes it is important to understand what they are and are not. Hundreds of thousands of people, about half of which are from the Middle East, are not piling up on the EU’s borders because Europe is closed to refugees. In 2015 alone, the EU has committed to taking in some 160,000 refugees, a four-fold increase from 2014. For those in the media that accuse Europe and the United States of not doing enough and are constantly calling on both to “do their fair share,” we must ask, what is the West’s “fair share” concerning these refugees? Since “Western imperialism” has not caused this crisis, in the strictest sense the West’s “fair share” would amount to taking in no one. But since the West was founded and built on a Christian ethos, one that values human life and individual freedom, we do take in refugees by the thousands upon thousands, more so than any other nations or region on the planet. Hundreds of thousands of people, from a wide area stretching across Northern Africa through the Middle East and into Afghanistan and Pakistan, have had their lives stolen and their countries destroyed, not by European or American actions, but by Islamic extremism. From Morocco to Somalia to Syria through Iraq and Pakistan to Afghanistan, Islamic states and extremist groups have deliberately, for almost ten years, so completely terrified the populace, wrecked economies and frustrated largely Western-led relief efforts, that millions now feel that any future anywhere else is better than staying in their own countries...( continue reading) Your Tax Dollars At Work Your hard earned tax dollars have once-again been well spent by our government. The Washington Times reported last week that over the past decade, the EPA "has spent a whopping $92.4 million to purchase, rent, install and store office furniture ranging from fancy hickory chairs...to a simple drawer to store pencils that cost $813.57." Any old furniture obviously wouldn't do for the EPA. Many of the agency's contracts were with the high-end retailer, Herman Miller Inc., which is known for its modern furniture designs. With a recent report showing that the poverty rate among American children has jumped from 18 to 22 percent, isn't there anything else our already-broke-government could be doing with our money?