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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Poor KITTEH!!!
Looks like it’s BERRY cold where the kitteh’s sit-upon is! Br-r-r-r-r!
I’ve seen the wind chill here at -9, but the coldest I’ve been in, personally, has been about -22. Which is why “cold” is a four-letter word!
GAH!!! *shiver*
Moving back to Texas, soon??? ;o]
Congratulations to Tom!!! When will he start? (Realizing, of course, that financial aid still has to be settled!)
Barbarians at the Gate: Story of the Ross Johnson RJR-Nabisco takeover (an older made for tv movie, but really good, James Garner really shines)
Just tell him , if not already known, that his future depends on it....worked with me.
Found it amazing ,years later, just how much of the obvious you don’t understand as a teen.
Bryan gets a nice hot cup of tea on his nightstand every morning to get him up.
He will start in August of this year. It’s a tremendous opportunity - practically no 17-year-old has the opportunity to have a complete residential college program paid for. App State is a high-side-of-average school, and the Honors College will give him lots of connections and career possibilities.
If his Honors College essay was good enough for admission, I assume the other three he wrote for the Merit Scholarship application would also be adequate. One of those was about coal ash pollution, and we all learned about Thallium poisoning, and I read two relevant murder mysteries!
That is such good news all the way around! Tom will no doubt benefit greatly from this opportunity.
In other news, I will go early in the morning (late for me) and get my hair cut so I don’t look so much like a raving lunatic.
Maintenance came today and FIXED the bathroom light problem, so I don’t have to turn on the high-powered heat lamp to brush my hair!
Friday, I go for my final post-op on my cataract surgery, so I’m hoping he tells me to dispense with the drops. Putting them in four times a day is becoming a nuisance. *sigh*
And that’s about all the news that’s fit to print for one day...
Congrats on the lights and the haircut. I hope your eyes are good, too!
Yaay! Face doesn’t have to poop in the dark anymore!
(I’m going to go shut up for a while now....)
Ohhhh, Cyber...that was silly!!!
Fingers are crossed. :)
I’m anxious to have SOME part of me that works properly! LOL! I still have to remember that I need reading glasses for almost everything around the house, but outside of that, I’m good.
I got some Preparation H for the swelling under my eyes (chronic sinus infection) and when I see the regular doctor for my follow-up after the Echo and the Stress test, I will ask for a referral to an ENT to see what can be done.
Everyone who has been in NV for three years or more has allergies, so it is an ENT doctor’s haven. Golden goose? Yah. Like that.
Be careful typing!
Hope they can do something for your sinuses! I’d like my sinuses to clear up, too. Unnngh.
Now I need to load up stuff for Cub Scouts. I’d like to stay home, but then I’d have to get my meeting plan organized enough for DP to run the meeting!
That caused a Tolkien moment. ...
Hope all is well, 'face.
Oh. An Ent moment is totally different than and ENT moment.
And dang me. I’m getting the flashing lights that precede the migraine. Ungh...
*pounce*
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