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Dispelling Myths: The Case for Immigration Reform [Enjoy your made-in-America ZOT, troll]
Red Dirt Report ^ | 12/27/2013 | Brian Woodward

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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To: NoCmpromiz

As to your “mini-post” the educated surmise is “No,” because in your mind, she will always be five years younger and that has nothing to do with you.

If it’s any help, my kids are older than I am... One is 49 and the other is 46, but I am still 50. It was a good year for me, so that’s the one I have chosen! Ask and I’ll send you a piccie...I know you won’t believe it! LOL!


1,381 posted on 01/16/2014 5:35:42 PM PST by Monkey Face (I'd like to give thanks to my feet for supporting me and my arms for being at my side at all times.)
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To: Monkey Face

Going to bed now...see y’all in the dawn’s early light!


1,382 posted on 01/16/2014 5:44:21 PM PST by Monkey Face (I'd like to give thanks to my feet for supporting me and my arms for being at my side at all times.)
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To: Monkey Face
in your mind, she will always be five years younger and that has nothing to do with you.

Well actually...

She IS five years younger than I. The mitigating factor here is that she avows that she is 29. So, yes, it has nothing to do with me. But to make the math come out correctly...

Should she EVER change the equation, I will still be five years older than her, but I will no longer be 34...

I'll have to ask her if she is still 'tinting' her hair, since she has had frosty streaks since she really was.. 29. ;-)

1,383 posted on 01/16/2014 5:58:02 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Monkey Face

Good luck!


1,384 posted on 01/16/2014 6:06:52 PM PST by Tax-chick (Tell the mad chameleon he's not welcome anymore.)
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To: Tax-chick; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Anoreth; Monkey Face; NicknamedBob; ...

1,385 posted on 01/17/2014 3:17:22 AM PST by Tax-chick (Tell the mad chameleon he's not welcome anymore.)
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To: Tax-chick

Aren’t we all?

Our challenge, of course, is to think our way out of it.


1,386 posted on 01/17/2014 4:36:14 AM PST by NicknamedBob (My cleverness often has to be severely constrained in order to fit in a tagl)
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To: NicknamedBob; Tax-chick

“Think our way out of it.”

I really am glad that there are cerebral people around , like yourself Bob.
I’d never have used that as an escape strategy.
A box cutter would have been my first choice.
Amazing what you learn around here.
:)


1,387 posted on 01/17/2014 5:04:40 AM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: moose07

They tell us we should think outside the box, so I try.


1,388 posted on 01/17/2014 5:40:24 AM PST by NicknamedBob (My cleverness often has to be severely constrained in order to fit in a tagl)
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To: moose07; NicknamedBob

Is the box in a sunbeam? Might as well take a nap.


1,389 posted on 01/17/2014 6:05:44 AM PST by Tax-chick (Tell the mad chameleon he's not welcome anymore.)
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To: Tax-chick

I survived the night! But I have no clue how. I coughed and coughed...and coughed...


1,390 posted on 01/17/2014 6:10:28 AM PST by Monkey Face (I'd like to give thanks to my feet for supporting me and my arms for being at my side at all times.)
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To: Tax-chick; NicknamedBob

It is, so I will. :)
Still a bit ‘jet lagged’ after this weeks trip to the ‘Alaskan’ time zone. Zzzzzz.


1,391 posted on 01/17/2014 6:11:05 AM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: Monkey Face

I’m glad you made it, but sorry you coughed!


1,392 posted on 01/17/2014 6:15:34 AM PST by Tax-chick (Tell the mad chameleon he's not welcome anymore.)
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To: Tax-chick

Health is fine. I need to convince littlest ArGee that she can do better than a man who barely speaks English and aspires to no more than his current job bussing tables for the Hard Rock Cafe.

I should be able to know that she’s just serious about him because she’s not serious about looking for someone else, but she has anxiety issues and might settle because her current situation is comfortable.


1,393 posted on 01/17/2014 6:18:56 AM PST by ArGee (O'er the land of the watched (closely)...)
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To: ArGee

I sympathize. You can tell her, “You can do better,” but she may well think, “But what if I can’t? I haven’t so far.” Uncertainty can be very hard to bear.


1,394 posted on 01/17/2014 6:22:36 AM PST by Tax-chick (Tell the mad chameleon he's not welcome anymore.)
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To: moose07

Welcome back to reality!


1,395 posted on 01/17/2014 7:04:01 AM PST by Monkey Face (I'd like to give thanks to my feet for supporting me and my arms for being at my side at all times.)
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To: Tax-chick

I will have a breathing treatment before I go see the doctor this morning. In a way, I’m hoping she’ll tell me I don’t need another transfusion, but I’m tired of feeling this way.

The coughing is what happens to me when I get a cold of any kind; two reasons at work here: 1) the pertussis I had as a toddler and 2) the collapsed lung I had in my early 20s. I just have to be very careful!


1,396 posted on 01/17/2014 7:07:33 AM PST by Monkey Face (I'd like to give thanks to my feet for supporting me and my arms for being at my side at all times.)
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To: Monkey Face

I’ll keep you in my thoughts all day!

I have to go to Walmart again. Unnngh.


1,397 posted on 01/17/2014 7:10:44 AM PST by Tax-chick (Tell the mad chameleon he's not welcome anymore.)
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1,398 posted on 01/17/2014 7:24:09 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Tax-chick

Walmartians are invading! I just saw one at a competitor’s establishment! LOL!


1,399 posted on 01/17/2014 7:39:28 AM PST by Monkey Face (I'd like to give thanks to my feet for supporting me and my arms for being at my side at all times.)
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To: Monkey Face

Yes, here too.


1,400 posted on 01/17/2014 7:40:37 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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