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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Have a cup of coffee and regrow that horn, please. Horn on the right looks like it needs some regrowth. Not stalking ... Have enough stalking following in this present ... and they all look worse than your partially missing horn. Guess I’ve grown used to it though. Do like it when the red under Word Wrap makes me go back and review. Is most helpful ... that reminder.
My apology ... your left, my right.
Never want to finish but we all do ....
I’m waiting. Is panting and drooling OK? I don’t want to mess it up, you know...I’ll keep my distance, just in case...
I would like to get one, but it is a little more that my budget would allow. I can actually wear one of three tartans: The Stewart, the Duncan or the Logan-McLennan. I like the ancient colors best, but I think I would wear the Stewart...My brother has a tie in the Logan-McLennan and my daughter has the Ancient Duncan, so I would have to be different... :o]
It’s nice to know the fit is good. That says a lot for the company.
Very cute, indeed!
Last night, some people from the church brought me an office chair. It looks new, has adjustable seat, arms and back and is VERY comfortable! He got it from his work. He said they have more chairs than people so it was just given to him, even though he was willing to buy it.
It matches the blue in the rug, though! :o])
How nice! Everyone should have a comfortable chair!
And Tom won’t sit in yours, to its detriment ...
If I had that armor, no one would steal MY armor, either!
I was using a plastic patio chair, and besides be extremely uncomfortable, I’m sure it was the reason my feet were swelling.
It will probably take me most of the day to get this adjusted just right, but once it is done, it will stay that way. I wasn’t expecting anything so beautiful or so expensive, but I won’t complain! LOL!
Now, I just have to find someone who can reset the timing on the truck and I’ll be good to go. I keep wanting to get it serviced, but it seems every payday, there is something else to take up that $35. This month it was the spare tire. Next month it will be the stress test. I want to get the timing reset before the weather gets too warm...
MY armor ==> coffee...
NEED COFFEE!! WHO STOLE IT???
Horn was lost in glorious battle with doughnut creature and dustbunny horde. It awaits me in Valhalla...
As for tartans, anyone can wear an "open" tartan. I chose the Black Watch because I'll be joining the Black Watch crew at this years Outbreak:Omega.
We'll try to represent the "Ladys from Hell" well and with pride.
I'm also authorized to wear the US Marine Corps tartan and the Clan Romsdal(Norway) tartan. Can trace my roots on Grandma V's side back to the Kruegers (Frederick, 1534) in the 1500-1600's.
Giant weregoats that eat those who fall under their baleful gaze?
True on the “open tartan,” but I’d rather have one from my family tree. There are probably a lot more I’m entitled to, but the three I mentioned are more recognizable.
My family tree (at this moment) has over 6,000 entries. It would be hard to choose a “favorite!” LOL! Some ancestors are from Scandanavia, so it’s possible, our lines would meet up somewhere in Norway or Kvinland.
Apparently, that side of the Family line had a lot of trade with Germany. They go back and forth a few times between the 1500’s and the 1800’s. Mostly fishing and trading with a few military commissions along the way.
Fun stuff.
Forgot about that one.
It started long before then. The Viks went far and wide to trade. Some of the artifacts found in buried settlements speak of trade as far south as Italy and Arabia, and this would be around 300-600 AD. I think there is much more to them and their history than the little bit of info that we have at the moment.
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