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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Can't locate my table of critters to check if those thingies are spelled correctly..
In the meantime, I'm oiling my mink. Er, minking my boots. Or something like that.
Morning.
Mornin’ to you also, TC.
I finished oiling my mink or whatever you call it when you smear minkoil on your boots, and set them back on top of the heat register (so the oil will soak into the leather with a heat assist).
Then spent some time searching through a Linux forum looking for solutions to some of the irksome things on my laptop now that I got a version of Linux on it that for the most part works. (A couple quirks with power management and display brightness, and a shutdown/hibernate issue mostly.)
And with that, I am off to bed now that you all are up :-)
Have a good day’s rest. I hope your boots are in good shape when you get up!
I have attempted to rouse my family members, but only Pat and Vlad have appeared so far, and they both gazed at me blankly when I suggested brushing their teeth. They may be sleepwalking.
Because.
I really had to LOOK at that photo to find the stealth critter...
Morning T-c and everyone.
Alien remake?
Yikes.
I don’t swim so well, so that would have been it for me.
Stick your schnozz into an Earl Grey tea pouch.
Then find the soap it most closely resembles.
Congrats.
Bob, I have not forgotten my promise of my wife’s interest in your writings. Time has not been kind lately to either my wife (my Better Half) or I. Her sight is much better though. Reading glasses do have to be utilized for most computer vision reading but overall she is happy so I am happy. Have had trouble, once, with Better Half stealing my reading glasses though. So am hopeful she does not make stealing my reading glasses a habit. Am blind to reading without reading glasses. Soon Bob ... soon. Then I hope you will mail me and Better Half something other than car parts. Struts might be helpful though if you have any of those.
Morning, y’all. I’m about to take Bill to school so that Tom can use the car to go to the dentist later.
And whether or not sending them in via shipping container would be allowed.
Blgthrgths.
They flap, wriggle, and coo oddly during their aerial displays.
So it turns out that “Tea, Earl Grey, hot” is one of the more challenging formulations with which one can task a replication program.
Who knew?
Yeah.
One might get “Hot ivory soap, bluggg!”
“Got to make the donuts” takes on a new meaning when there’s fresh snow on the ground.
Later, gators.
Lovely!
At the time of your post, I was at the gym increasing my odds of surviving past Age 50...
:-)
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