Posted on 12/27/2013 11:24:17 AM PST by honestabe010
In his press conference on December 20th, President Obama urged the House of Representatives to support the Senate’s immigration bill, which passed 68-32 in late June. Among the concerns cited by Americans who oppose reform are that immigrants will take their jobs, drive down wages, increase criminal activity, burden the welfare system, and reshape the cultural dynamic of the country. These concerns are mostly ill-founded. The legitimate concerns have real solutions, and a more open immigration policy will be a net benefit for all Americans...
Highlights from Article:
- A 2013 study by the American Action Forum states that "immigration reform can raise population growth, labor force growth, and thus growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP).”
- In 2013 the Bipartisan Policy Center came to similar conclusions. It makes the prediction that current provisions, as included in the Senate Bill, would raise GDP 4.8 percent over twenty years.
- According to the Immigration Policy Center, immigrant males between the ages of 18 and 39 (which constitute the greatest portion of the prison population) are five times less likely to be incarcerated than are natives.
- A 2011 survey by the Pew Research Center revealed that 92 percent of second generation and 96 percent of third generation Hispanics speak English proficiently.
- A 2010 Gallup poll revealed that Hispanics attend church services more often than non-Hispanic whites.
- Since an influx of immigrants means an expansion of the labor supply, many assert that the result will be less jobs and lower wages. However, as asserted by Jason Riley, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, “The number of jobs in the United States is not static. It’s fluid, which is how we want it to be.”
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I did a quick sweep, and only found two books, but the search was superficial, and there may be more in with the beads.
See? Southern to the core! LOL!
When you’re hungry, you eat corn mush. Unless you live where corn doesn’t grow, and then you eat rice.
Whatever books you *easily* find will be enough for the Middle School Girls, I’m sure.
Darksheare apparently thought that peanut butter and duck sauce sandwiches were too pedestrian... even on sourdough.
That's what you do when you don't want them to know they're eating grits... ;-)
There were some Saturday nights when all we had to eat was a HUGH batch of HUGH cinnamon rolls with HUGH amounts of frosting and butter.
My mother was feeding seven people on $200 a month, making house payments, etc., keeping four children in glasses (all four in school) and still managing to have money in her apron pocket for the odd ice cream cone. (Ten cents.)
Too bad she never taught us kids how to handle money...
You have to remember that sourdough is an acquired taste, therefore I am forced to agree with Darks on the bread front, but would prefer the peanut butter and duck sauce filling.
Cucumbers just give me indigestion.
*hiding in deep bunker*
lol.
If I'm going to send you this stuff, I'm going to send you all of it!
Ok...
Enough of the girl-talk. What's the difference between one of those pashmina thingies and the thing my Grandmother called a shawl? Other than possibly a more fancy name?
Is that something like the difference between just grabbing your tea cup and drinking the tea or daintily picking up the tea cup while extending your pinkie finger gracefully and sipping the tea all lady like?
Oh, Moosie, now I'm insulted. I make some truly WICKED sourdough pancakes (better than buttermilk!) some awesome sourdough biscuits (American biscuits...don't know the British equivalent) and some truly delicious doughnuts!
A pashmina is a specific definition for a fabric, usually used in a shawl or stole; pashmina indicates that it is made from cashmere wool and silk. Expensive here, but I got mine (several) for $10 each in Pakistan.
I Had to look this up as well, it is a secret language you know...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashmina
Well! Thanks, Moosie!
It explains the touchability...
I’m sure your cooking is a display of perfection, ‘face.
It is just a personal taste issue, sorry, it’s the truth. :)
I love that one.
Can I come out of my corner now pls? :)
I’d bet a nickel to a hole out of a doughnut, that I could serve you something made with sourdough and you would never know! LOL!
(I’m good at this stuff!)
Moosie, how could I ever put you in a corner???
Freeeeeeee!
Thanks ‘face. :D
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