A City Set on a Hill

This from the World Fact Book:
United States of America — refugees (country of origin): the US admitted 62,643 refugees during FY04/05 including; 10,586 (Somalia); 8,549 (Laos); 6,666 (Russia); 6,479 (Cuba); 3,100 (Haiti); 2,136 (Iran) (2006)

I wish to make a few points about this:

First — The United States has no "internally displaced people" or IDP's, and it has no refugees in other countries. (Just a handful of people, innocent until proven guilty of course, who need to be extradited.)

Second — No other first world country takes in refugees; not one of the self-righteous finger pointing European nations appears on the list. (I don't include the Baltic states in this category.)

Third — Most of the world's almost 9 million refugees reside in bordering nations to their native land. This may be a bit controversial, but maybe if The United States wasn't home to 20 million + people who have illegally immigrated here then we would have more resources to help those who really need it most.

In the mean time why aren't the other prosperous nations of the world reaching out to the poor and downtrodden? It is probably because the European socialist governments are too busy bankrupting themselves; a practice being adopted by the current US administration. Thus the nation where capitalism has thrived for over 200 years is the one who truly helps the poor...ironic? no, that's just how freedom works!