Do Syrian refugees deserve a cool $1 Billion from US taxpayers?

Why.....Oh why......can we not use this money to help our own?

Syrian refugees do not merit any funding from the USA Col Joseph Lenertz. Earlier this year President Obama was threatening to veto the National Defense Authorization Act stating the bill wastes federal funds and shortchanges key administration priorities. For the Democrats to back a push to give the Obama administration $1b in emergency funds to help Syrian refugees seems foolish. We poured too much money into Syria all ready. The administration has been so focused on ousting Assad until now while refugees have been fleeing from Syria for over a year after they had been fleeing to Syria from Iraq for so many years. Syrian refugees need to be addressed by regional powers first and then perhaps European powers.

I have pity for the legitimate refugees. We have bombs dropping on pro-Assad forces and now another major power dropping bombs on anti-Assad forces. I would want to bail too. BUT, if their very own Muslim nations refuse to allow them to enter their own countries where they share a common belief, why does it become the responsibility of western nations? We are not in debt up to our eyeballs. We are in the middle of the deep blue sea clinging to a branch. We have to sever the ties and reliance on these countries who own the fate of the world because they are swimming in oil and pumping billions into the very groups that we spend trillions tying to eradicate. We concentrate on making cell phones so advanced that we could land a man on Mars yet we still have to pay an arm and a leg for a hybrid car that will cut our nation's needs in half. I know I'm ranting but we need to attack this problem from another approach. Can you imagine if we had not gone to Iraq and taken that money and spent it on our own infrastructure?