Australia has just accepted 12,000 syrian refuges as part of "doing our part".

Cleverly the Government has focused on "persecuted minorities", which is another word for Christian Syrians (as opposed to muslims), this is done to get greater support from the general population who are sick of all the Muslims (as Mark Latham says - we do have a muslim problem in Western Suburbs of Sydney, no matter what PC academics say....

But I suggest we shouldn't bring out the 12,000. And I do so for three reasons:

1. We are tearing families apart
2. We are tearing communities apart
3. And how do we decide who comes here? How is it fair to those wh remain?

Now I'm not suggesting Australia not do its part, but I am suggesting that we spend the $700,000,000 (that it will cost to bring these refuges out here and support them) on really helping the Syrian people.

I read that it costs about $10,000 to house a family in a semi-permanent structure (think shipping container with kitchen, etc). Now thats per family. Assuming that is 2adults and 2kids we could actually help over 280,000 people! Over 1/4 of a million people we could hep.

We could also give some of those Syrians jobs creating the container housing needed.

Plus we would not be breaking up families, nor would we be denying Communities the people they need to help with the reconstruction efforts of their homeland.

But we won't for a few reasons:

• It doesn't have the same PR effect and give the politicians a nice photo op
• It doesn't help our charities get more money (and spend it on high employee wages and overpriced services (that is usually outsourced overseas) within Australia)
• It won't bump up the growth figures (more population = higher welfare payments and support structure = higher spending in the economy = higher growth (as saving money for investing doesnt equal growth). But it will add more debt, but who cares! Look at the GDP figure!

So we will break up communities and families and overlook the helping of 250,000 people (inc. small children) just so we can all pat ourselves on the back for "helping".

Tip Limekill for their post.