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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Paris fashion week comes to a fantastic conclusion.
Oh, yes! Be still, my hardening arteries!
When my brother and his second wife, the daughter of a Church of England priest, first visited us, I asked the North Carolina forum what we should make for brunch. The universal consensus was “grits casserole”! Ours had sausage in it, though, not bacon on it.
Gastonia fashion week ...
The artwork is Plexiglas. It was painted on the reverse side and then melted and formed into shapes. The artist also did some interesting pieces with wood, steamed and bent into curves. Some of them looked like one could impale a brother on them!
The Plexiglas items will be up in the orchid conservatory for the next year. Orchid displays near them will be color-coordinated.
Grits casserole,
The mind boggles.
I’ll drag the storage out and take photos of the inventory. You can show them to Asuncion, and if she isn’t interested I can send them to you for the Middle Schools Girls.
I even have some books that would be helpful. :o])
Aw, DANG, that looks good!
Call it polenta, if it makes you feel better.
The plexiglass art certainly works well.
Any idea on the paint type.
Don’t hurt yourself. Set me a price-plus-shipping, and I’ll buy it all, including the tools. Asuncion can take what she wants and we’ll give the profits to the Fonda por Obras de Caridad, and the Middle School Girls can have the rest and I’ll charge their mothers shares.
I hate to think of good craft supplies sitting in storage, when I have Middle School Girls threatening to engage in pyromaniac mayhem for lack of constructive activities.
The artist did not say.
This is Google results on the artist. Maybe somewhere it says what kind of paint held up on melting Plexiglas.
Yes,,, that’s the stuff I know from Zimbabwe as Sadza.
Very nice with bacon.
Now THAT, I would like an authentic recipe for! I know someone (besides me) who really likes grits!
It’s 63 degrees. I just walked out to the mailbox and realized someone fairly close had an encounter with a skunk. They seem to be rather common around here. I’m glad I have no south-facing windows...
The Plexiglas looks like fabric. I’m sure the paint had to be acrylic. Heat wouldn’t be good for oil-based paints.
Cornmeal mush.
I'll put up a recipe by tomorrow. I try to load mine up with vegetables, but some people don't go for that.
OK: Tomorrow’s challenge will be the bead/book/tool inventory photos. I will know better after I take a look what I have invested in it, but I suspect the price will be at least $50. (Not my investment, which was in the $100’s but the resale value.)
That also includes wires, findings and earrings.
Most of the latter are silver, so that is good.
You don’t have to give an inventory or photos, just a guesstimate on what it’s all - including books - worth to you right now, plus shipping cost. Just go with your instincts, imagining the thrill for a dozen dangerous Middle School Girls and a nice, 50-ish Mexican lady ... but don’t short yourself. You have an investment.
My mother used a lot of cornmeal (A lot of her dishes were Southern, but we couldn’t get grits, so cornmeal was the substitute.)
Some of the stuff I hear about brings back so many memories...My mother would pour the mush into a loaf pan and stick it in the fridge, and the next day, for one of the meals, we would have fried cornmeal mush with syrup. Don’t ask. We were dirt poor.
Wellden. I will pull it all out first thing tomorrow and give you an estimate. Some beads are glass, some are plastic and some are Swarovski crystals. I also have bracelet/necklace clasps, if I’m not mistaken.
Grits fry-up was a favorite camp meal for Dad, Russ, and me. With syrup.
They'll need that, too.
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