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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I've seen worse.
I really do appreciate the compliment ... Having lived as long as I have is a true blessing. Know am blessed for waking up each day I wake up ... except when have woken up in morgue those two time. That was a little scary and did not think that was a blessing. All my bad days have begun by waking up at the morgue.
LOL Bob! I’m doing alright today, honest. I may even muster the energy to go clean the chain saw later. We do have to reschedule Face’s operation if remembering correctly. I’ll have the chain saw clean and fully operational.
Bob, have heard you were the brain behind the *Laz life* and Laz has been around, from what have heard, for maybe approximately 5,000 years. I do not know if the *Laz life* was your greatest creation. I never asked Laz.
This has been an unpaid *unsolicited* series of comments. Me recognizes there are secrets that should not be told but me is crazy. Am I placing my nose in the wrong place again, everyone? Nose is looking a little brown as I check the mirror?!? How can that be? None of you Uters poop!
Nope. Laz is the brain behind Laz, for whatever that’s worth.
I’m only the brain behind Bob.
You're back in touch with Miss Staplegun of 1993???
correction ... Uters should be UDTers
Please offer my sympathies as well.
I’ve said too much again. Can always tell because they enter to spy on my one particular channel that I utilize to monitor them. They’re monitoring this a.m. My setup is giving me a heads up. They are fully listening and watching currently. No secrets I’ll tell. Guess ... whoever or whatever you are listening and watching. Hello!!!
I will let him know. Thanks, Nully. *hug*
6 Grand not far away
Which they will keep up until they fill up. I'll grant you a thumbs up for being a straight-up guy, but what's up with the look-up you're getting? Are you fed up?
Really don’t mind them coming for a visit actually. They seem to be friendly enough; so far no actual violence. Being though that they are not UDTers; I built this monitoring system on my own time and with spare parts from the basement while was down mapping a while back in the Flying Castle and it has turned out to be a great monitoring system for keeping up with whoever or whatever this blip on radar is. Am willing to hand the technology over for free to you Bob. I did utilize parts from the depths of the Flying Castle. As stated though, am thinking they (monitoring us) are friendly and do not leave a characteristic Borg signature in my monitoring system. Haven’t seen the Borg signature since earlier this a.m.
Will check on this anomaly Bob. *I am the Clerk and Secretary and this is the Flying Castle ... Are you friendly?* This is my first attempt at contact. I do not have the authority to ask for weapons power up Bob. Just a suggestion ... May want to place Weapons Area on Stand-By.
Bob, so far no response. They might be shy?
Bob, is Timmy available? May we send Timmy through the new system to attempt contact?
Bob, am certain of this one thing. I set the characteristic Borg signature to also be the same signature for putin/russia or china should either of them try to come near. This signature is not putin/russia or china.
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