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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Heater on, ice slides right off, with a little warmth.
Re spray in morning and ice slides off after 5 minutes.
LOL,
Had to look that up...
Different name. :D
Prestone ice melt spray.
Mostly “methyl”, it works.
Unless there is vicious viscous maneating freezing fawg.
“Prestone”
Wander if obarry uses that?
His "Press" tone? Quite so. I've heard him do so.
It's the same tone of voice I use to express my displeasure at the mutts when they misbehave.
And the Press all lap it up.
Too funny this kiteh jpeg this morning. We have been getting slammed with snow. We have over 6ft now. Supposed to get another foot in the next 24 hrs.
Later
LOL! Wear it a few times with all your kit...she’ll soon be begging you for another showing... ;o]
Mother Nature is trying to tell you something. If you want to be able to move about during the wintertime, become a centipede.
Nearly a hundred (I think) posts since I left yesterday. I see I didn’t really miss a thing...
I got two loads of wash done yesterday, and will wait til Busdaddy is on his racing trip to Bakersfield to do the rest of the laundry. That way, I can go early enough to get most of it done by noon, then get home.
As for the “reason” I went over there: Unnnghhhh...
No one was available at his prior workplace (Friday afternoon, CST Zone) so all he could do was leave a couple of messages. He also had the FMLA (?) paperwork that he wanted me to “research” and I told him he was going off half-cocked.
First of all, the HMO has ALL that info online and what isn’t there (I think it’s available for the patient for 18-20 months) he can still get electronically by making a simple phone call. So I guess all I really did was hold his hand and keep him calm enough to function. Sort of like a “stable buddy” for a Thoroughbred horse.
I DID get a steak and cheese sandwich with mushrooms, from Capriotti’s so that was good... :o])
Now I just have to put the laundry away and make the bed. Haha.
Lablady said she was coming over today after she got her hair done because she has, “something” for me, but I’m afraid to ask what. It could be anything...
Wear your virus filter.
40’s today, tonight 20’s.
So everything that melts will freeze.
And then the road idiocy begins.
The road idiocy occurs around here, only within three days of Friday.
Ah yes, forty five minutes away from Scranton.
The nexus of metastasizing road idiocy in that area.
And I will sprinkle holy water on the threshold and wear garlic, just in case. She’s bringing her step-daughter...
Wicked combination! LOL!
It’s 58 degrees and there is no snow! YAY!
Oh, I LIKE that! LOL!!!
WAY too cool! :o])
Welcome.
Very Fredlike. It’s scary, actually. Makes me glad we don’t have a gas water heater.
LOL!
That was good, too! My Caturday is complete!
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