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’m nearly done backing up the computer...
It has completed 64.97 GB with 4.13 GB to go. The slave has 3TB, so I’m good!
Now. The big question: Do I go into the hard drive on this and begin deleting files that have been backed up?
You know what needs to be hammered with snow?
Quebec, because Quebec is the “California” of Canada and deserves to be snowpocalypsed on general principle.
So, let’s help our northern friend FanFan out and send cold and snow to bury Quebec under a blanket of snowdoom.
Don’t delete anything yet.
It’s still working so there is no way I’m going to interrupt it, yet! Thanks!
I LIKE it! Let’s do it!
*Mad scientist voice*
IT...MUST..BE..DOOOOONE!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooYAH!
Laugh if you must, puny humans, but I know how to do this, and the process is currently underway.
And the leaders among your gullible people actually are convinced that the opposite is happening!
Poor, doomed, and deluded fools. Bwa-ha-ha!
It’s not science unless it’s MAD SCIENCE.
If you had let that Genie built that wall you could have been pumping the water in and by now it would be a beautiful ice skating rink instead of a frog infested pond...
Drats.
I'm kinda partial to WEIRD SCIENCE, too.
Not much - they had only carry-on luggage. They got us some souvenir t-spoons, which I keep forgetting to pick up a spoon rack for, and some refrigerator magnets.
I decided not to go to Walmart, and a good thing, because Kathleen kept waking up crying and I had to hold her so she could have her nap. Now it’s time to start cooking. Fortunately, I didn’t need the things on the list right now!
The humorous part of all this "the earth is melting global warming" so called scientific theory is that the same people propagating this absolute gibberish claim to be "scientifically minded" people who deplore the superstitious nature of people in the middle ages......
The irony is beyond parody, though the Monty Python skit about the witch (turned me into a Newt......I got bettah) does a pretty good job.............
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I swear I wouldn’t do this to anyone.
No, I’d do worse.
At least they didn’t feed Jang and his associates and family to the poor.
I like the crash sequence.
Good point. They couldn’t do that without admitting that people are hungry, though.
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