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...
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- 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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If we grant such people the vote, we would be MAKING A GRAVE MISTAKE if only because the law must mean something of value to those we allow to vote on who will be in office.
I sent you a Little Something by U.S. Mail yesterday, so you should have it by Friday. Then you can tell me how much all the bead stuff, including the books!, is valued, and I’ll send you that by some method.
If we’re not in the snow tomorrow, Pat and Elen have dentist appointments, and I can look at the Dollar Tree next door for those cards. Also, I can go to the Harris Teeter pharmacy and get the shingles shot I’ve been planning on for months.
I got pink wine.
James got his “Nature Friend” magazine, and he’s doing a puzzle about animals’ homes. “What’s a roost?”
If your Walmart has a “money center” the cards can be found there, but you may have to ask for them as they may not be where you can reach them.
I picked up two boxes at the PO, not trusting one to hold it all, regardless of the flat rate! Now, I realize I have to get more tape, so I hope you are in no dire need of the stuff. If the Little Something gets here tomorrow, I can load up the stamps.com and get the tape and be in bidness!
I don’t know how to estimate the cost of the stuff. I pretty much know what I paid for each thing, but I don’t know what replacement value is or resale value, so I will need a little help on that. Some things are just too much for my cute little brain to handle.
A place to hang your toenails. Applies mostly to birds.
I asked at customer service at the Walmart. I think they’ve stopped carrying them.
“Bat” was the right answer in the puzzle.
That’s what I need: PINK Cardboardeaux!
The next nice day I’m at Busdaddy’s I’m going to talk him into helping me wash and detail my truck, since it’s so small compared to his big ol’ diesel dually. He won’t even try to wash his by himself any more. Age and arthritis seem to have staked a claim.
I’m sure the truck will look much better, once it is shiny and the tires and other black areas have been Armor-All-ed. Then I can take a really good picture! LOL!
Bless his heart! Frank just turned up to nag for a drink, and he accurately observed that I’m typing words in English.
LOL! I wonder what language he expected you to be typing...?
Did you get all the computers moved into the appropriate places? And if so, has that solved a lot of the “game time is more important than class time” problem?
How is Bill’s job going? Is he still gainfully employed? I hope it wasn’t a seasonal thing for him. That’s discouraging.
Horseshoe.
Most folks have the horseshoe open side up to catch luck that would fall into it.
Because blacksmiths create horseshoes, they will sometimes mount a horseshoe openside down at the entry to the smithy so that all who enter are sprinkled with luck.
Yes, Bill is still working at Burlington Coat Factory, although not as many hours as he was at the end of the year. Maybe it will pick up when the spring clothes-buying season starts. If he works there until the end of February, he will have over six months of retail experience and qualify for some other jobs. He’s applied for some other jobs, but hasn’t heard anything so far.
We have the one computer, on which I am typing in English, in the dining room. The other is still in the schoolroom, but it doesn’t get much use except for the little boys. It appears that nothing will make Tom work very hard, sigh.
I knew there was some custom involving have the horseshoe with points-down.
There is a name for this....
The décor suggests that a girl lives there. Maybe she’s short.
Ah! Found it. It’s a “Baphomet flag.”
I noticed from watching British TV some of their doors are really short. Are we the strange ones for standardizing that?
Interesting. Especially the association with black cats ...
Maybe it’s just in older buildings.
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