I don't agree. Of course no one wants to be starving, thirsty and without a safe home/shelter.
But it's not true that all people want to have a lot of money and want to be well educated. These are values that are not so universal to humanity as many people in the West think. Being filthy rich and well-educated are definitely Western values and Western societies measure "equality" by measuring household net worth and salaries, and degrees. By applying such measures they of course discover inequalities, and then try to explain why they exist. Here democrats and republicans have distinct explanations.
Then give them public education and public libraries - I'm all for it. I generally support basic level of "socialism". But then you will find people who complain, that there is no equality because there are families who send their children to private schools. Such people want to ban private schools and force everyone to send their children to public schools - The Young Turks, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx_4svbYaDE
I'm afraid you're putting words in my mouth. I never said most people want to be "filthy" rich, although believe me, a lot of people do want it.
What I said was...
"A mother living in a ghetto in Detroit, or a reservation out west, or a barrio in Los Angeles loves her children just like I do, and wants the best for them, wants them to become
educated enough to hold down a
decent job and live a
decent life.
We're no longer living in a world where you can earn a decent salary working in a factory or a small farm, not in the U.S. at least. Those factories and small farms have largely closed down. Most parents don't want to see their children having to live on minimum wage from working in a McDonalds for their whole lives, worrying if they should pay the electric bill or the rent, and trying to make the food money last the whole month. The only way to increase the chance that they won't have to live hand to mouth in that way is to try to see that they get some education and/or training beyond just literacy and simple math. This is so obvious that I can't believe I have to say it.
Of course there are going to be extreme viewpoints expressed by both those on the far left and the far right. That's why people from those extremes should never be elected to public office. I personally try not to associate with either variety.
Anyway, this is far afield from what to do about refugees from war torn lands or even more so from religious or racial genocide.
One shouldn't confuse the processes and laws which should apply to economic migration versus those which should apply to people fleeing from genocide.
I see absolutely no reason why the U.S. or Europe should deny visas to at least some people fleeing the disaster in the Middle East. Certainly, the Christians there can pose no possible security threat, and they are the most educated group in that area. Most importantly, they are fleeing from GENOCIDE and sexual slavery. The Yazidis likewise. Are they supposed to be treated the same as possible ISIS members or men from Afghanistan fleeing poverty? Am I supposed to believe that Europe, the home of humanism, is going to deny refuge to fourteen year old girls who have been abducted and made into sex slaves? Or is it that for some people the determining factor is that they are "darker" than most Europeans, or have the wrong type of nose or something?
As to the Afghanis and whoever else is trying to use this crisis to hitch a ride into Europe for purely economic reasons, that is a different matter. Europe has to come together and formulate a rational policy for how many economic immigrants it can reasonably absorb.
The Muslim refugees from the Middle East are again a different issue. As many of them as possible should be helped in the Middle East, because I don't know if the west is capable of vetting them for ties to extremism. I'm sure in some cases it's obvious however, that they are innocents caught up in this madness.
The real problem, and here I'm sure I'll be met by a firestorm, is that the U.S. has abdicated its leadership in world affairs, leaving a huge vacuum that the Russians and the Chinese are happy to try to fill (See how you guys like dominance by them...the Russians during WWII raped all the women they could get their hands on, and stole everything that wasn't nailed down. Even today, they're ruled by some combination of criminal Mafia types and ex KGB apparatchiks, and the treatment of any minority,including homosexuals, is appalling). The Europeans are too fractured along "ethnic" or national lines to present a united front, have lost the will to act, and are incapable of organizing themselves out of a paper bag.
On the part of the U.S. I don't know whether it's the result of the stupidity, cowardice, or brainwashing of our current leaders with the, yes, far left ideology that America is the problem, when it is often the only solution. And yes, yes, I know that it turned out that Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction (there's our great C1A and great British and French Intelligence again), and George Bush, like Woodrow Wilson, gave people in other parts of the world way too much credit. Some people really aren't ready for democracy, and that applies to some areas of Europe, too. The fact remains, that having broken it we had an obligation to stay in Iraq with at least minimal forces. Our feckless president either doesn't or won't understand that, and the European nations are in the same boat. They want to spend all their money on social services and take a months vacation in the summer, which doesn't leave much to defend themselves.
This human wave is going to get worse. If you don't want to be inundated then get off your collective butts and organize a military response to ISIS, hopefully without ground troops, but if there's no other way then that's what will have to be done. That's the only way that these noncombatants will stay there. Even spending lots of money on aid in the region itself isn't going to halt it. Just accept reality. Either spend the money there and stem it both by military action and humanitarian efforts or spend even more in the long run on welfare for millions of migrants. Needless to say, for those concerned about it, it would change Europe culturally forever.
Sometimes I do indeed wish I had been born a man. I'd quite relish being a Navy Seal and blowing the beejesus out of those monsters. Oh, and we were talking about weapons on another thread. Just let's imagine that money was allocated so that every woman in the Near East had a gun and was trained to use it. One well placed bullet and that's one less man who will ever rape a woman again.
Nothing West African about them! 
