Snowblower is getting a work out this year.
12 degrees now. Heading for 18. Overnight low is supposed to be -22 with a high of 4 on Fridrak.
On that note...
Back to work...
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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Oh, what fun! They say it may be 39 later. The snow has mostly melted where it’s sunny, but not in the shade.
>:^(
Snowblower is getting a work out this year.
12 degrees now. Heading for 18. Overnight low is supposed to be -22 with a high of 4 on Fridrak.
On that note...
Back to work...
Oh. My. Stars. *shudder*
I’m not glad you’re in that, but I’m REALLY glad I’m NOT! LOL!
You will be sorry when I show up at your door, begging for the warmth of the Valley of the Sun!
Um... That was a shot out my windshield on my way in this AM. Check the speedo... I’m on a freeway. :-)
Oh yes, you’ll love the 115F worth of warmth. I do.
I’m like Sammy Hagar. I can’t drive 55.
I figured you did it this morning. It looks like 55 mph ~~ on the freeway??? Must be winter! LOL!
You KNOW I’m like a lizard on a rock in the summer...
I want to come to AZ and spend about a week, as I have folks to visit from Sahuarita to the White Mountains...
I figure a night or two with each should take care of it for the next year or two. If I can gather enough of them in the Phoenix area into the same back yard, I can visit without too much driving. But I’ve got family in Tucson and Sahuarita, as well as our mutual FRiend in the White Mountains, so I figure if I can get the truck serviced, and get the radio working, I can make the trip before April.
(Hope springs eternal...)
Which is exactly why I have a four-cylinder vehicle! Any more and my foot tries to go through the carburetor! (Fuel injectors?)
You can when it’s right in front of the cop shop and the kick-up to 65 is still a half mile down the road...
A little paranoia is a good thing. That stretch of road houses the local PD. I think the State Troopers maintain an office there too...
Good point. That is the best place to be on your best behavior.
Ah. That explains it. LOL!
I’d be paranoid but other people would be trying to hunt me down for it...
that was a great post!!!!!
Enjoying the beauty of nature?
Appreciating glow bull warmthing?
Cross-country skiing?
Coming to borrow my old Deere? (Maybe you can convince it to start... ;-)
Saying the heck with it and having another cup of coffee if you can get the coffee maxhine to work?
I would have rather said...what the heck and had another cup of coffee instead of shoveling that snow.
I took a nap. Not a very good nap, but better than nothing.
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