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...
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- 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 was just listening to the local news and heard the female anchor say, “How about some freak ads to start your day?” I turned to look at the screen, and realized only then that she had said, “How about some FREE GAS to start your day?” as one of the local gas station/mini-store outlets is doing a yearly promotion. It was funny! I will snicker at it all day!
Welp, I’m outta here...
Size 3T.
I could use some freak ads, too! LOL. There’s a popular rock song out, “Heaven Knows,” but one of the announcers on Sirius radio always says, “Have a nose.”
“What if I had a Lego nostril set?”
That’s a very good question, James.
I kind of wondered about her vocabulary and her brandishing threatening objects. It all becomes clear now....
Our family is an experiment in psychology.
I think I’ll bring my Mongol Horde to your neighborhood and take Kathleen and Tom home with us. (If I can feed a Mongol horde, I should be able to feed Tom. Kathleen can have all the plastic butter knives she wants.) See you when I get the itinerary together and finish packing. (It’s no small feat to find motels that cater to horses.)
Motels don’t like catz, either.
I’m back! Since there are another two hours plus before the next appointment, I just came home. He didn’t need me this time, but I think he is trying to make up to me. Hah!
Not gonna happen.
after doing the wash, did dishes, other housework, yard work ... gosh I'm tard.
Good afternoon T-c and everyone!
As I remind them at Church, they get the quality of keyboard player they are paying for... ;-)
May you and yours stay warm and safe.
LOL!
When singing with other people, my voice is strong, but there is no real quality. I’d have been dead years ago if I relied on singing for my supper. And other meals.
I want to see “The Lego Movie!”
Now, if the boots would finish drying out...
They have been arranged on a heat register to facilitate the process. I just turned the spit, er, rotated them about an hour ago. I'll oil the mink, er, mink the boot, er, boot the oily mink, er whatever when they reach the 'done' stage. In the interim, I'm wearing my older, retired but stored serviceable pair of boots that I have kept for such a time as this...
Thank you.
May Spring come soon ... and Baseball. Three hours of sheer boredom punctuated by brief moments of excitement. May the Boys and Girls, of Spring, find the diamonds.
Baseball will come way before our spring shows up. We have snow until the first or second week of June.
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