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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Las Vegas has a unique problem: It grew so quickly that measures to help it function properly have been overlooked. It is still growing to the tune of 50 new miles of streets every month.
They don’t even allow houses to “season” and “settle” but move people in before the paint is dry.
The growing pains are terrible, so it’s no wonder we can’t do anything about the water...we’re side-tracked by streets that end at brick walls and other streets that act as flood channels when it rains.
It’s interesting to watch the growth...
Yes it is, if it is from the heat exchanger’s cold side.
I empty the bottles every few days at work.
We use the heat from the A/C to help heat the hot water in the building.
Computer heat used to wash your hands...
If only he'd smoked pot those 65 years, he wouldn't have lung cancer! </idiot>
Perfect. All the tension needed to make a good story summarized in a single sentence.
” Now, graph that sentence.”
My brain panicked at the word “graph”, threw a chair out the window, and ran off screaming into the monster filled woods.
And mine was right behind yours!
I noticed that too. Darks would have less trouble writing if he just gave in to the fun that it is. I'm particularly fond of this little element:
Wade grunted, “Neighbors.”
“Huh?”
“Next door. New neighbors.”
“Oh,” Timmy said, then paused, “I’m gonna go see ‘em!”
Wade was staring at the ham, trying to figure out where it had come from, because it looked like it was coming through the wall. Belatedly, he responded, “Well, don’t you go pestering them! I don’t think they like pests.”
He heard his own screen door slam. “… Nobody likes pests,” Wade continued softly. He reached for a large knife.
Wade figured if he couldn’t get the ham out one way, he’d just carve it out a slice or two at a time.
After years of living in the hundred monster wood, the roving brains wandered out into civilization once more, horribly perplexed by the changes to society.
Which they promptly began poking with sticks.
Cute! Hi, howdy, greetings from Sunny Arizona. We are home!
YAY!!!!!
Now I have a REAL reason to head southeast! All I need is specific directions and a pocket full of gas money!
Good to see your post. I have a story to tell you.
I’ve been looking for more victims.
Congratulations on being home in sunny Arizona! It’s sunny here in NC, too, but it will be getting dark soon.
65 and clear, no breeze. I was out soaking up some sun a little earlier, and it wore me out! LOL!
I’m feeling a little better, but not up to par. I have to have another blood test Monday, and after that, the doctor will tell me if I need another transfusion. What a bother...
But it will be nice to feel like a real human again! LOL!
I had a retreat committee meeting all morning. It was nice. The retreat will be Feb. 21-22. Then we took the birthday brothers shopping. Now I’m making the cake for tomorrow. Then I’ll give them supper. Bill and Sally have gone to church.
DP said we should go out to dinner, but then he remembered he has to be on the phone with the office from 7:00 to 8:00. I can read to the byos instead, although we can’t move on with “The Two Towers” until Pat comes back from camp tomorrow.
Wasn’t there a movie just like that with Mel Gibson? I’ve never liked Nicholas Cage much, not even in “Valley Girls.”
Thanks! I depend heavily on FReepers’ reviews before I buy a DVD series or books. I’ve wanted to order “Red Dwarf” for a long time and I think that’ll be the next “present” Mr. Sg gets for me! I think I’ve seen the Nicolas Cage film. He’s supposed to be bankrupt or something, no?
Haven’t seen it, loading it up now.
If I start watching BoB I’ll be up all night so maybe tomorrow...
Say WhaT?
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