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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What a Doll!
Great view! The byos were all so little!
Thanks!
It’s supposed to be I took the pic of the byos from the dining room. I need to quit thinking about my mouth and concentrate on what I’m doing.
Sorry, Ganag!
That would be my dear chocolate lab, LulaBelle.
Spanish moss. Sally’s head. Pat’s head.
I saw a sticker on a tiny little car today. It said, “I (heart) my chocolate lab.” Thinking it may be in the tiny little car, I got closer. The car was fairly dark inside, but I could make out three occupants. I thought, “The lab is big enough to fill the back seat! Go Mom and Dad, taking the lab for an outing!” The occupant turned to the left just as the light changed green and I saw a pair of glasses on a very short nose...the ears were all wrong, too...
See? Even I knew that! That was the day Pat talked me into going through the maze with him and was upset with me because the thought I may have followed a false trail. :o])
They’re making a new and bigger maze.
Oh, doggies!
Maybe, by the time I get back there, we can go again and I can allow Pat to blindfold me and lead me through the maze. What a concept! He could even lead from behind!
Well... you shouldn't have been poking around in it with a screwdriver in the first place. You know those electrons don't like to be prodded...
The Magic smoke and electrolyte where all over the room.
Catastrophic failures of electronic components are always... spectacular. ;-) I always suspected (in the example mentioned above concerning green capacitors) that the vendor had mis-marked the polarity on these greenies.. It was as if they came out of the factory as the 'Friday-after-a-long-liquid-lunch' batch...
We were never told the official reason for the massive failure rate but subsequent production no longer contained green tantalum capacitors.. ;-)
But that was ok. We found other things to, um, stress test... ;-)
Spanish moss, writhing and speaking many abominations to its fellow plants in an effort to overthrow animalia hegemony!
LOL. LulaBelle likes to were bandanas or Marde Gra beads. She loves to go for a ride in my truck, in Laura Earl’s mid size SUV or in our bass boat. We can’t get her to wear sunglasses.
Crisped selenium stack is an invigorating stench.
Tantalum capacitor dazzle flashes bother your eyes for several minutes afterwards.
I was at work, so I know I didn’t wander into anyone’s dreams this time.
*looking as innocent as a smudge of displaced midnight can*
Don't know about using the descriptive "invigorating", but it certainly makes for easy troubleshooting...
Well, invigorating in much the same way as “that sound that means hit-the-killswitch-now” is invigorating.
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