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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That’s what Ash told me.
If they ever make a smell channel, dogs will love it.
Guys too, probably.
Iirc, guys don’t have much sense of smell.
Can't say I miss it much, but people around me might wish I were more attuned, let us say, to their sensibilities.
What can I say? Love me, love my defensive armaments, and never attack from the rear.
I just want people to put their dirty underwear in the laundry basket.
I can accommodate that.
Guys have a different philosophy about undergarments than women do.
For women, these items that we used to call "foundation" garments are used to build a magnificent edifice, an imposing fortification, (perhaps not impregnable), of which, they will say, "destroy this, and I will rebuild it as soon as I step out of the shower".
But guys use underwear as a way to protect the outer world from them.
It sounds like I should just give up.
No. Just relabel the laundry hamper as “Hazardous Material”.
I think all the boys’ rooms require that.
Eh???
You could consider threatening them with the need for calling a HazMat Team, and maybe even do it once or twice.
Disposal procedures should be indoctrinated in the little menaces as soon as possible.
This cold is a life-saver...I can’t smell anything, even if it’s supposed to be a good smell...
Good morning, you two!
Good morning! We have Sunbeam here. I need to go copy songs for Mass. Half the world has “la gripa” ... I think it will be just me and my two elderly Puerto Rican ladies, and one of them was a maybe.
It’s James and Kathleen’s birthday today.
Morning Face.
It is a Banana slicer, metric size. Lol.
just something amusing I stumbled across. :)
Happy Birthday in Munchkinland.
Who knew such a thing existed?
Happy Birthday to James, James and Kathleen!
I don’t get out much, so it’s hard to say what part of the world has “la gripa” ~~ I’m just as glad it missed me.
Well, now...a banana slicer... whodathunkit?
What an amusing tool.
Nope.
Was following a link from a thread at about 3 in the morning, your time, and ended up on ebay....the rest is history.
But it made I chuckle, so where better to share it?
They make a non metric one for American Bananas. :D
Amazing the cr*p you find on ebay.
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