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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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!
Going to bed now...see y’all in the dawn’s early light!
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. ;-)
Good luck!
Aren’t we all?
Our challenge, of course, is to think our way out of it.
“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.
:)
They tell us we should think outside the box, so I try.
Is the box in a sunbeam? Might as well take a nap.
I survived the night! But I have no clue how. I coughed and coughed...and coughed...
It is, so I will. :)
Still a bit ‘jet lagged’ after this weeks trip to the ‘Alaskan’ time zone. Zzzzzz.
I’m glad you made it, but sorry you coughed!
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.
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.
Welcome back to reality!
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!
I’ll keep you in my thoughts all day!
I have to go to Walmart again. Unnngh.
Walmartians are invading! I just saw one at a competitor’s establishment! LOL!
Yes, here too.
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