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 Senates 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. Its fluid, which is how we want it to be.
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No, I didn’t win.
Just wondering how many musicians fall on either side of that fence.
These days, who knows.
We have holographic bands (gorillas for example), so who knows what live performances really are anymore.
Warning! Incoming!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Y9RvDyNt4
Dale Ann Bradley, the soprano on the right, reminds me of Monkey Face.
That’s lovely. I sent the link to my husband. He loves bluegrass and “roots’ music.
It was Cyber’s birthday yesterday, so I watched all those YouTube videos. He is again watching them.
Not my genre.
This morning I woke up and made Cyber his coffee (nothing like your coffee, I am sure). I fell back to sleep. Cyber made his second cup, and noticed that the oat grass that I grow for the cats had been mangled. Dirt and grass everywhere. God love him, he cleaned it up.
We don’t know if it was the FTI Unit or one of the other four monsters. LOL!!!
I agree with that.
I didn’t know that Monkey Face sang.
Argh!
*falls under onslaught of Fredhelp!*
But Wolverine Cat, was that Fredhelp or what?
As for the oatgrass, check the FTI unit for flecks of greenery?
CSI: cat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jSxTBA0-N8
I heard this just the other day on the way to church and almost had to stop driving. We lived there, near Stones River (Murfreesboro, TN). The dead were everywhere, but you got used to it.
Remember the days when what you heard on the record was pretty decently close to what you heard in concert?
Have you ever been to Gettysburg, or any of the other civil war battlegrounds?
Well, yeah. But back then, they made records from scratch.
Yes, things have changed, but that started quite some time ago. I haven’t gone to a concert since 2005 or 2006 or so.
Lots, Civil War and Revolutionary War.
She doesn’t, but she looks like Dale Ann, especially after she got a great haircut from Jamie-my-hairdresser.
Yesterday Fred celebrated his Daddoo’s birthday by running around the house bouncing off walls and dressers and sinks and anything else that was around. He was hysterical.
Now his full sister, Patches, who is a Calico, was laying in the oat grass container yesterday afternoon. I’m thinking it was she who did all the damage. Two of the five would not do that. It was one of three.
When I was young and born between two brothers, if one did something naughty, all three of us were punished. Those were the days before time-outs. It was the belt. No welts or anything, but you felt it. None of us ever finked on the other ones.
We have so many Revolutionary War battlegrounds around here that we can barely turn around without bumping into one. For the Civil War, I’ve only been to Gettysburg. We’ve often talked about not only revisiting Gettysburg, but visiting some of the southern battlegrounds.
I’ve never seen any revolutionary re-enactments. Shame on me.
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