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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Put Vick’s Vapo-Rub on the soles of your feet. Then put on socks!
I have water simmering in the teakettle, but it will be a while before it migrates to the living room. The kitchen isn’t wide enough for me to put a chair by the stove, so for now, I just get to suffer.
It seems to me, back in the day, that my mother always had a big ol’ teakettle (gallon, maybe?) on top of the stove/heater in the winter time. The problem here with teakettles, humidifiers and other vessels that are used for water that the lime/calcium deposits build up so quickly that they need to be replaced quite often.
I’ve gone through two humidifiers, but I didn’t have a water filter, then, either. We shall see what happens. I mean...the teakettle was an investment of $1.50 at a yard sale six years ago!!
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If I HAD Vick’s.... I tell ya, TC — it’s been so long since I’ve had a cold that I have NOTHING here to make it easier to deal with. I’ve always had Watkins Menthol-Camphor ointment handy, but it dried out several years ago. And it’s the ONLY thing that ever broke up my chest colds. (Partly to do with my collapsed lung and subsequent years of smoking, I’m sure.)
So I’m trying to make do with nothing...hahahah! I don’t even have mint flavoring!
Yeah, if you’re going to have to replace it soon anyway, I think I’d opt for the teakettle, too.
Rest and feel better! The colds going around this season are really nasty ones.
If I can keep this cold in my chest, I can deal with it. When they get to my head, I start to short-circuit. I don’t know why. Maybe because the remedies are so much more complex.
Ny-Quil turns my brain into gray lint for at least 24 hours after one dose, and sometimes, it’s as long as two days. The strongest “cold medicine” I can take is Alka-Seltzer Cold meds, and with my bleeding ulcers, I need to stay away from aspirin products. And I can’t use Tylenol...it killed my liver long ago.
So I do what I can do and the rest of the time, I try to think of sunshine, heat and summer!
Psst. If I make it back I may have news.
Shhhhhhh!
I guess the boiling water is the plan.
On the “misery loves company” front, we learned that Tom can’t take courses at CP this semester because he did so poorly last semester. UNNNGH.
On the other hand, I won’t have to drive him every day. He’s just going to have to work like a dog so I can honestly give him passing grades at the high school level.
I don’t like Tylenol, either, but I have a dirty little secret...I LOVE Alka-Seltzer Plus, lol. It makes you feel so warm and fuzzy, like you’re in a sleep cocoon....you want to nap forever.
Mr. Catherine (that sounds odd) currently has a bad cold, and it’s in his chest; I think he’s just beginning to get better, though.
Warm weather will be here before you know it. I’ve been trying to look on the bright side-—it could be stomach flu. Ugh.
I like yours MUCH better! At least, we hope, Tom has learned something, even if it means you will have him underfoot a while longer.
Hmmmmm....It seems to me that both of the big boys are getting some well-earned lessons this month. As my mother would say, TC: keep a stiff upper heart of oak.
Yah, I know...what does it mean? No se.
You’re sick, I’m just really, really, mad. But being me, my first thought was to get the money back for his textbooks and the student fee ;-).
We’ll make the best of it, but he really needed the experience of managing these courses with online assignments and all that stuff. If he gets to App State next year, he’s going to need a student mentor or something to help him sort it all out.
Again, it’s the aspirin in the Alka-Seltzer that worries me. I’m a LONG time Alka-Fizzy fan, from back in the day when it came in those long bottles. My dad would buy them, fill them with pennies and give them to my sister and I. It is one of the best all-around remedies I’ve ever found!
BUT! I just had a transfusion, and may need another before the next week is out, so I need to be careful with what goes into my body. *sigh* I’m SUCH a problem child...
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Well, I suspect Tom, for all his brilliance in academics, is a little shy in the common sense department. I don’t know of any place that teaches that except LIFE!
As for the money, have HIM pay for it. I mean, he figured he could ace it all because you were footing the bill, but how will he adjust if you told him it was coming out of his Epic Fail Lawn Service Funds? A new twist.
Haha! He will hate me with a passion, I know, as soon as he realizes where all these common sense revelations are coming from! LOL!
I don’t blame you a bit for being careful. I would steer clear of the aspirin, too.
The strange thing is, I had three TIA’s (mini-strokes) 30+ years ago, so I have to take an aspirin a day. And when the angina kicks up, we are cautioned to take an aspirin and call 911.
Well, the angina is partly at fault for the ulcer, but all I could do is follow orders, even if they seem at odds with each other. Now, of course, I need to change from regular chewable low-dose aspirin to enteric coated.
I am SUCH a problem child for myself! LOL!
Tom has been pretty sheltered. So was I, for that matter, and it took quite a few kicks in the teeth from Life to make me the highly competent person I am today, having to call my mother only occasionally.
I, too, was sheltered, but I was also independent by nature and nurture. I grew up in a town of 4,000, and the only thing girls “knew” was being a mother. That was a career.
When I realized (after my first marriage went down the tubes) that I could have gone to college and been an archeologist, I was angry at my mother specifically and adults in general because I was never given an opportunity to think for myself when it really mattered.
So in one way or another, I have been learning things ever since. The internet could have saved me I think, but at least the thirst for knowledge was always there, even if I didn’t know what to do with it...
You have a lot of knowledge-y and knowingness things ;-).
Anoreth was sheltered, too, but she jumped out into the real world and successfully swam.
Well at least you are on top of it all. God bless you, Monkey.
Most of what I know I HAD to learn in order to survive intact. I have always been curious and that has been good and bad. The bad isn’t all that bad, these days. I can look back and say, “Been there, done that, and guess what? I survived!”
The “unspoken” is, of course, “If I can do it, you can, too!” As an example, in 1980, I gave up my cigarettes, alcohol and coffee on the same day, and never looked back. The smell of fresh brewed coffee made me say, “Oh, man, that smells good!” but when offered a cup I declined.
Once in a while, I would see a beer commercial and think how good it would feel going down, but still wouldn’t buy it.
And cigarettes? I still have nightmares about lighting one up! LOL!
In 1990, I began to drink coffee again, but instead of drinking it black as I had done for years, I needed cream in it. It’s only the last few years that I wanted “sweet!”
And in 1994, I had my first alcohol...a champagne split with vodka back. Yah. Like that. ;o]
Anoreth reminds of my mother: “Dynamite comes in small packages.”
I guess to sum it up is to say, if you WANT to do something bad enough, you will find a way to “make it so.” It CAN be done.
Ummm...that would be 'Face, if you don't mind.... Thanks! ;o]
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