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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 sorry to hear about Kathleen. It must be miserable to feel so bad and not be able to tell someone where it hurts.
Poor Fluffy!
I’m feeling a little puny, too, but I think it’s the CFIDS, trying very hard to come and smite me with a relapse. I didn’t take my pills today (time to get them all set up again, and I was still distracted by payday thingys that don’t work out like I want them to!) and I really should know better.
Of course, bed is where I need to be, but I’ve been trying to revamp my bill file. Hahahahahahaha! Good luck to me on THAT! I keep forgetting I need a brain for that kind of thing!
My fingers feel like 33.
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Dang. Mine are only 10.
Where do you buy gloves?
I’ll bet you play one mean piano.
:-)
Poor Kathleen!
Saying a little prayer for her.
:-)
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooYAH!
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8-/
61 degrees here. Wish it were summer....
I found some mitten/gloves at Walmart, which totally surprised me. The fingers were short, but there was a mitten flap that folded over the fingers and buttoned on the back of the hand. I HAD to buy them! And USE them. I hate when my hands get cold!
Down in the 30’s tonight in N FL...but beginning of the week we’re supposed to have a couple nights in the 20’s (supposedly)
Cool gloves!
I love cold weather - I even love it when my feet feel cold!
I think I have an inner reserve of generational Texas summer imbedded somewhere inside. :-)
It snowed all day today. Gorgeous!
Shiver me timbers! Dang! FLA ain’t supposed to be that cold!
I will send you warm thoughts! (For what it’s worth!)
They had 9 degrees Fahrenheit in the area of Georgia my brother in law resides in the other day.
My loathing of the cold is from a car accident in ‘69, where I was in shock so deep they thought I was going to be DOA. (That was in the day when there were no EMT’s...only “ambulance drivers.”)
Since then, when I am cold, it goes to the bone and takes almost forever for me to warm up. So I’m always looking for things that will keep me warm but not hinder me in the things I need to do.
(I spent the first five years of my life in Alaska, and the next 12 in the middle of the Rockies, so cold is no stranger. It’s just that my tolerance for it is so low.)
Anyway, let me know if you want some of those mitten gloves and I’ll see what they have.
YOIKS!
The wind sucks the heat out the boat and my heater needs to be replaced :( but I’m in my sweats and under quilts :)
I love sweats and quilts! And I can believe about the wind sucking the heat...I’ve been several places where I’ve had to deal with it. Which may explain why I always sleep with a window slightly open all year...
Hang in there! Winter can’t last forever!
Unngh!
“I am the Quilted Bandit! Hand over your feather down and you will not be goosed!”
*Goose honks at the cowering peasantry*
The action scenes are intense in this movie...the student is seduced by the violent dark side and at 55min or so battle of light vs dark practicing with his old master is like epic yang vs yin anger vs compassion. Now the battle is for his soul and Keanu Reeves is the devil.
ARGH!
I’m going to bed! I’ve had all the dark movies I can handle for one day...
Have a good night, Anton!
Stay warm!
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