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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I may have to read the books again...after I get some of the ebooks deleted...
Dang. I subscribe to BookBub.com and I download at least one book a day. I gotta stop that!
HELP! I’M AN EBOOK ADDICT!
If you liked the author, Mecklenburg library catalog shows that he wrote a book called “Blitzkrieg.” I assume it’s about the eponymous World War II tactical concept.
Don’t you have dead-tree copies? I can get you some at The Book Lady. We had to get a new “Return of the King,” after the one we got in 2002 fell apart.
If you mean hardbound, I get what I can in print either barter, exchange, gifting or (occasionally) buying, but since BookBub.com offers at least one book free every day, that’s what I get...the ebook freebies!
OH, heavens no! I meant paperbacks. I can get them at The Book Lady for $1 each. They were turned in by the gross after the movies came out. I’m sure a gazillion people bought them and never finished reading them.
Reading aloud reminds one of just how *much* brilliantly composed compound-complex prose there is. Some people can’t spend too much time gazing at all the details of a Gothic cathedral ... but others say, “Okay, yeah, but where’s the explosions?”
Our kids are leading a bit of a sheltered life at their Mother’s request.
Ana’s coming around nicely, but Pete and Grace still get kinda freaked out on occasion.
“Builds character” I say. Wife says, “You get up with them in the middle of the night after a nightmare then...”
Hard to beat logic like that.
Frank (4) does not go to the movies. Vlad, about to be 8, has an adamantine character. James is clueless, except for the explosions, and Pat mumbles the dialogue and quietly gripes that it’s not what it should be.
Followed a couple of bloodlines back to the 1500’s in Norway and Germany. Ukrainian side disappears before Grandma and Grandpa.
Between the holodomor and WWII, not a lot left over there I guess.
This is the latest “Viking” related book I read.
Let all three watch Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters last night. No nightmares reported.
I think that pretty much clears them for The Hobbit.
Did you like it? My teens have been going on about how it’s not like the books, but I don’t care (and neither do Pat, James, and Vlad) since we haven’t read the books.
Tom did a passage from something in the series for Literature Interpretation competition a few years back, and I formed the opinion that it’s all pretty good writing, but other than that ... whatever.
How old is Ana now?
Haven’t read the Percy books yet. Movies are ok. I like the Greek Pantheon so... All good there.
Loved Nathan Fillion as Hermes. They even managed to work in a couple of Firefly/Serenity quips for his character.
Ana’s 10. Currently working her way through the last couple of Warrior books(http://www.warriorcats.com/) and is most of the way through the second book in the Inheritance Cycle(http://www.alagaesia.com/).
$2.75! Holy cow!
Sally (13) and her friends are really into the Warriors books. They do artwork and fan fiction and stuff. Anoreth was the same about the “Redwall” books.
I’ll request the movie from Netflix. The little boys (Pat is 12, James is 10, Vlad will be 8 on Thursday) all know their classical mythology.
That afghan must have been striking.
Half-price day, every Wednesday. It’s a “size 0,” so I couldn’t believe it fit me. I’m usually a 4.
We’re supposed to have snow overnight, so I’ll miss the sale tomorrow.
How long ago did you do that? It’s possible more information is available and I would be more than happy to chase it down for you.
No pressure. It may be that you are happy with what you’ve found, but I would like to see if our lines intersect! I did the genealogy of my neighbor in Tucson, and come to find out, our lines met at the Mayflower. We had a common grandfather who had eleven children. My neighbor was a descendant of one daughter while I am the descendant of a second one! It was fun, because I even gave him a copy of the common ancestor’s Will!
Of course, once I got his line to the Mayflower, the rest was easy, because I had it all. It goes into the Norse and Russ lines, and that is really intriguing. I recognized so many names as I was reading “The Vikings,” but as I recall the genealogical charts, some were not necessarily kings but famous village fathers.
Still, it’s really exciting, once you get into it ... I think!
I just added that book to my Amazon wish list. (Like I need another ebook, right???)
If you can get paperbacks of LOTR and The Hobbit, I can used at least two copies. I either read them to death or give them away to new recruits!
I’ve heard of people who bought the books, hated them, went to the movies and wished they had read the books. Or thought the books were superficial.
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