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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I think the pioneers must had their sons camping out, unless the snow was hip-deep. They had families of 20 living in houses the size of my dining room. Unless they racked ‘em up like POWs, they must have been sleeping out most of the time. (My boys would love that.)
I think I’ll move from here straight to “Independent Living,” like my mom’s building in The Villages.
If I had a choice, I would be in my own place on a small plot of land. Were I independently wealthy, I could get such a place for $1700 and the rest in payments. (I just need the down and the closing costs...Henderson has such a good program for low-income folks...they even are eligible for $35,000 improvement loans, which don’t have to be paid back until you move out.)
BUT...I don’t, so I can’t and I won’t. I will, instead, make do with what I have.
:o]
I didn't offer. I was just bragging.
I’d worry about you if you were on your own plot of land. Always so much work to be done. Of course, I worry about you where you are! Your health is ... less than robust!
LOL! How could I have been so wrong???
ROTFL!
Don’t worry about me. I know...easy for me to say...if I had my own plot of land, I would also have “life-lines” to make sure that plot and me were well taken care of.
I’m here because of the climate, but for no other reason. Circumstances have dictated that for now, I am in public housing. Had I a choice, I would be on my own plot of land close to people who love me and care about me. That could be an offspring or someone in my extended family.
At this point, no one that I know wants to be saddled with me. So I say....who has an accurate picture of me? Those who have known me online for 13 years, or those who have known me in person, periodically, for 30 years...I dunno...looks like a job for Superman, to me...
I don't know. I just know what I know, from what I know about. Who knows what others know?
LOL!
I know you are a very. smart. lady. and that I am very proud to be counted as one of your friends.
The time I spend in the Tax-chick Coop are golden days, worthy of description. And I thank you for all you do to spoil me when I am there!
For others, the relatives, of course, I’m just a relative, and there are “others” who can take care of me because they are more closely related. And that’s how it goes.
And I’m off for tonight. I want to sleep, but the pain is a little sharp, so I will see what morning has in store...all I can say is: OUCH!
I hope you get a good night!
I..um..have the game.
Look at me still talking when there’s science to do
When I look up there it makes me glad I’m not you
I’ve experiments to run, there is research to be done
On the people who are still alive
*Just heard it from Tom today. He was playing famous video game songs for Kathleen. She was bored with the Elk Sounds.
LOL, hmm.
Kathleen is going to be a different kind of little girl. If all goes well, Tom will go off to college in August and subsequently be resident only periodically ... but it may be too late already. Anoreth had Pat totally nuts by the time he was 4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPFnoSiuyM
Is it wrong that I can easily imagine the “angry murder bunnies” from my terrible story running rampant to this tune?
It makes perfect sense. This is the kind of music Pat likes. When we were going to the Food Lion and A-Plus Vacuums this morning, I turned on the Mexican music station, and Pat said, “What genre of music is this?”
“Norteno Conjunto, a Mexican style with influences of Mariachi and German oompah band.”
“Oh, this is not my favorite genre, which is Dubstep. Can we listen to Dubstep?”
“No, I like the accordion on this song!”
LOL, well.
Half-life’s soundtrack was “different” for the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWXy13QvADc&list=PLB61A980FC7A2E45A
Tracks 1, 8, 12, and 16 being used in samples elsewhere.
Portal soundtrack, just because.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9l8uJMbgA&list=PL487979DEBA8A7060
Half-Life 2 soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKvT5QJ3Pf0&list=PLAF5A427DD7BC9A78
HL2 Ep1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfVuk3msPGc&list=PL81A6F9B500404C58 <=======second track here has possibilities.
HL2 Ep2 soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrMGhtYLZy0&list=PL95D5E07398C25193
You’ll note that they recycled some HL1 songs for HL2.
Indeed.
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