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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My transfer year is coming up. I can’t make any plans to do anything before I know where I’m going to live next year.
I hope it will be good for you.
If it isn’t I’ll get out and find something else that is.
Gee, thanks! That explains everything.
Welcome.
Crippling phobias can be a great source of literary inspiration.
Lovecraft, as mentioned, was terrified of aquatic life.
Edgar Allen Poe was afraid of being buried alive.
Well, sheesh. No wonder I don't get anything done. I'm afeared of working!
I mean, ... wait ...
I’m afraid my mind will crumble.
Hence why I write about deranged characters.
And work eventually eats you.
Just ask the owrkers.
You have told him/her to avoid Walmart, yes?
Don't know about down in the Lone Star, but up here the local WallyWorld's attract the resident beached whale population. Must be the ride on those battery-karts that draws them in...
Being buried alive is a bad thing, although it’s not statistically very probable. Coral polyps, on the other hand, can’t do much to you.
Ah. Vivisepulture. A fear that gave us safety coffins.
My version of a safety coffin would be one guaranteed to keep the scoundrel inside.
I’m sure “vivisepulture,” a cool word, was more common back when it was harder to tell whether someone was dead, and people were in a rush to get you in the ground before you rotted. There are occasional items on FR about people who wake up in the morgue on at their own funeral; these are usually events in third-world countries.
I prefer manual transmissions to automatics. Always have, always will...
Good luck with the car!! Don’t let the boys touch it! They will turn all the radio stations to rock and heavy metal and then the transmission will be shot!
Unless you live in Vegas. Trash is collected every day its scheduled to, no matter if it’s a holiday or not.
It might have a cassette-tape player in it. My dad didn’t care much about music, and his hearing was bad even in the 80s, when the car was new.
That would be Vegas, Baby!
"I'm not dead yet!."
Your link about safety coffins says they originated during a “vivisepulture” panic during the 18th century cholera epidemics. It’s interesting that popular press really took off about the same time ... one can imagine hysterical newspaper reports or pamphlets detailing terrifying buried-alive anecdotes, until people believed that just about everyone was buried before he was dead.
Sort of like with kidnapping stories today.
The stereo in Mr. Bill doesn’t work any more, and I’m sure it’s the wiring, but for some reason, I can’t get my son-in-law to understand I need MUSIC! It would be nice to listen to CD’s...
It seems the last three vehicles I’ve owned have had faulty stereos. Ungh....
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