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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Not I, said the coward! LOL!
A perusal of back window decals, some of which seem to be arranged so as to portray a family-like group, lead to one inescapable conclusion.
There are a lot of really weird peoples out there...
bump
I finally got Mint 15 with the Mate desktop to install on my old laptop. Still some issues, but I at least know I can get something on it that will work.
Apparently their (Mint) Cinnamon desktop (a Gnome 3 clone which I happen to like, and have running on my 'big box test frame' unit) requires 3D acceleration or some such thing that the ATI video on the laptop doesn't offer. That might explain why I couldn't get any version of Mint with Cinnamon to completely install - run from DVD yes, complete install - nope. Puzzling thing is that Mate is a Gnome 2 branch yet I couldn't get a Ununtu with Gnome (whatever version it was just before they changed to the Unity thing) or any type of KDE desktop distro to install.
It was a very interesting series of trials before something finally installed. What I'm wondering now is whether I can now update the install by replacing the packages that have changed in the newer version, or whether that will toss another monkey wrench into the works..
I still have the hard drive (60 gig, 7200 rpm) with the XP install intact, and I won't wipe that until I finalize on whatever Linux I am going to stick with. I have Linux on the original drive that came with the laptop, a 40 gig 4200 rpm drive. Would like a larger drive, but finding a 7200 rpm PATA 2.5" drive now is iffy. New are way to expensive (don't want one THAT much ;-) and used drives I am hesitant to buy.
Probably once I figure out how to get everything working, since it's already in house, I'll wipe windoze xp off the 60 gig, and use it for the final install of Linux - it is a larger and faster drive and its costs have already been 'absorbed' ;-). (Other laptop is no problem, it's SATA and I already have a replacement drive for it (and an external SATA USB enclosure to put the old drive in) for when I put Win7 on it.
TC pinged it out.
I was at work.
“Unngh” happened.
Morning. I haven’t checked the weather report to see precisely how Unnngh it is.
Cold here.
Coughing my lungs up.
Kept the missus awake.
:-(
James told me he overslept yesterday because Frank kept him awake coughing. However, the other boys said Frank wasn’t!
Have you tried putting Vick’s Vapo-Rub on the soles of your feet, followed by socks?
Temp in the 20s; still dark so I can’t see whether there’s ice.
Vicks doesn’t help me much.
I basically have to huff the stuff to feel any kind of impact from it.
Pretty nearly useless for me.
I’d been prone to bronchitis and pneumonia during school.
And it was always a struggle to clear my lungs.
Oh, dear. Try tea with lemon? The last thing you need is pneumonia!
Better than...http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Rwz6zBJSE ?
Ubuntu 12.04, unity desktop
Unity is why Xubuntu and Kubuntu exist. Different desktop interfaces
Please, Mr. Custer, I don’t want to ... Unnngh.
I’m with you. Well, really I’m on the way out the door, but you know what I mean.
Graaaagh.
I am also a Huge SNSD Fan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQy54gw-pls
Who can recall all the words? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe0q8Lq3L2Q
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