"What are you doing? I'm trying to guard the house here!"
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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They are now!
But observational experience of those who have says otherwise on its harmful effects?
They’re a little inarticulate.
One would think so, wouldn’t they?
lol
I brought Kahlua for the hot cocoa :-d)
I’ll have to list that down in the side effects then.
"What are you doing? I'm trying to guard the house here!"
The move was a little abrupt this time. But, in Real Estate, sometimes you have to strike while the iron is hot....
But we got Fred caught up. That’s the important part, to make sure the dishes get washed.
Yes, the other thread that was a possibility kinda died.
I might keep it queued for next month though.
Keyword koalaknifefight.
Compared to being hooked up to 220v...
No. Not bad at all...
At this location in my little portion of Son-of-Former-Emperor-Cuomo's fiefdom what this usually means is that once the solidified glowbull warmthing starts accumulating with intent, the governmental agencies in charge of relocating the stuff from the road to the berm give up and wait until the solidified material ceases to fall. This can be both a blessing and a not-so-much, all depending on how enthusiastically they removed the stuff before they take a nap and wait it out.
It does seem that the governmental agencies in charge of such relocation time their cessation of enthusiasm to coincide with the expiration of an event known as 'evening commute hour' at which time they determine that anyone on the roads has made it to their destination and no further enthusiasm is warranted.
The not-so-much scenario goes like this.. If the solidified glowbull warmthing falls with severe intent and the governmental agencies in charge of relocation of same are really enthusiastic (meaning that the 'rush hour' either has not even started or is not completed), there will be a mound of impenetrability at least a yard high across the intersection of the driveway and the road. Absolutely none of the vehicles here would make it through that to get off the road and into the drive.
The 'blessing' scenario is the converse of this. If the accumulation with intent of solidified glowbull warmthing does not begin until after the governmental agencies in charge of relocation of same are no longer enthusiastic (meaning after 'rush hour'), said agencies will be on their nap time and there will not be a wall of impenetrability at the intersection of road and drive. That intersection will be covered with whatever amount of solid stuff there is (possibly up to a foot) which at least allows us to get a car off of the road and into the drive.
And if the cars are all in the drive, I can wait until the solidified glowbull warmthing ceases to fall from the sky before trying to have a meaningful conversation with my ancient John Deere solidified GW relocating device..
I invited some 'climate scientists' here to experience, in their T-shirts of course, the balmy -22° C temps forecast for Friday night, but they regretfully declined the invitation. They seem to be inexplicably detained by being frozen in the no-ice-summer Antarctic ice..
“Koalaknifefight”
Historians one thousand years from now will go through the keywords listed by this site’s server and stare over the top of their bifocals at each other.
Thus starting the whole new science of Archiophsycology.
Well, koalaoil will also draw some interest as well.
All the buzz without the “ouch”.
And I still need some for my lanterns...
Wonder if the John Deere would run on it...
The JD would run on 90% isopropyl.
But it wouldn’t survive that for long.
Was just about to mention oil lamps.....glad I hit refresh first. LOL+
Some oil lamps will also burn vegetable oil.
But it results in a sooty greasy flame that is not as bright.
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