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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Holy cow!
Be the better man, my love. Settling your hash on someone is not good karma. Remember, I had the same but different sort of first marriage.
Got that phrase in... LOL!!!
It’s very cool. Concord has some wonderful historical sites, too.
Yesterday posted reply No. 5300. Today I posted reply No. 5400. Your friend was right. It’s going to be a great year.
Where is Concord?
I actually found a cow. Just dang. I don’t go into unknown web sites unless Cyber tells me they are safe.
It’s actually too chilly for me to go outside right now. It’s only 57 degrees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Concord_ma_highlight.png
The Battle of Lexington and Concord was the initial conflict in the American Revolutionary War. On April 19, 1775, a force of British Army regulars marched from Boston to Concord to capture a cache of arms that was reportedly stored in the town. Forewarned by Paul Revere and other messengers, the colonists mustered in opposition. Following an early-morning skirmish at Lexington, where the first shots of the battle were fired, the British expedition under the command of Lt. Col. Francis Smith advanced to Concord. There, colonists from Concord and surrounding towns (notably a highly-drilled company from Acton led by Isaac Davis) repulsed a British detachment at the Old North Bridge and forced the British troops to retreat.[8] Subsequently, militia arriving from across the region harried the British troops on their return to Boston, culminating in the Siege of Boston and outbreak of the war.
The battle was initially publicized by the colonists as an example of British brutality and aggression: one colonial broadside decried the “Bloody Butchery of the British Troops.”[9] A century later, however, the conflict was remembered proudly by Americans, taking on a patriotic, almost mythic status (”the shot heard ‘round the world”) in works like the “Concord Hymn” and “Paul Revere’s Ride.”[10] In April 1975, the town hosted a bicentennial celebration of the battle, featuring an address at the Old North Bridge by President Gerald Ford.[11]
Literary history[edit]
The Old Manse, home to Ralph Waldo Emerson and later Nathaniel Hawthorne
Concord has a remarkably rich literary history centered in the mid-nineteenth century around Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), who moved to the town in 1835 and quickly became its most prominent citizen.[12] Emerson, a successful lecturer and philosopher, had deep roots in the town: his father Rev. William Emerson (1769–1811) grew up in Concord before becoming an eminent Boston minister, and his grandfather, William Emerson Sr., witnessed the battle at the North Bridge from his house, and later became a chaplain in the Continental Army.[13] Emerson was at the center of a group of like-minded Transcendentalists living in Concord.[14] Among them were the author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) and the philosopher Bronson Alcott (1799–1888), the father of Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). A native Concordian, Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), was another notable member of Emerson’s circle. This substantial collection of literary talent in one small town led Henry James to dub Concord “the biggest little place in America.”[15]
Source: Wikipedia
I don’t ask exes anything pertaining to their exes...they always lie. It’s part of the package. You fall out of love, or lose interest and you find ways to justify your affair, so the other person gets blamed for what you are doing, and it all goes downhill from there.
The late Igor did SO MUCH damage that I have seven grandchildren who don’t even want to get to know me. So exes are not a good source of information. I want my info first hand...I will decide if you are worthy of my friendship and no one else.
(The “you” is editorial, not personal.)
What a great story! Awesome! Congratulations on finding each other! WOO-HOO!
(I should live so long...)
Thank you, trisham! What a cool history of Concord.
Do you live near there?
I have not yet gone, but I guess I’m about to. We got to the part where the Ring was destroyed. James was stopping me every couple of paragraphs to ask, “What is he going to do? Are they going to die?” and other stuff. And I would say, “If you’ll just be quiet, the author will tell us!”
My browser wouldn’t let me get there...
It’s 46 here, but will get up to 75 today before it cools off again for the weekend. *sigh*
I did, but I’m about 45 minutes away now.
My mom watches CNBC, says the Fox Business people are lightweights.
Congratulation on your successful surgery and PT.
When I leave this next time 9gas and jewelry store) I will stop by the PO and mail the books. It’s the least I can do... ;o]
Nah, the least you can do is like eating and stuff!
But seriously, thanks. I should go to the PO and send Anoreth her tax documents. I wouldn’t have them if she’d tell her employer where she lives ...
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