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...
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- 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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...and I’ll keep an eye open for something w lots of explosions and mayhem!
Oops
Ohmy. I want one....
Ack!
Tagline cut off.
Welcome, though!
Twerpmaster of the north!
My pupils sing the Dink song from Spaceballs when they fail a task.
While running outside with the sandweights on their boots, an inflated medical glove set as a hat on their heads in the light of the setting sun..
Oops, that was the meeting with the management last month.
I remember watching it on TV when I was younger.
I think I laughed soda out my nose.
Good to know such meetings are universal. Lol.
I saw “the notebook” a long time ago and the whole plot is designed to tearjerk so bc
Drink lots of fluids ;)
In one way I tbought it was well done, and in another way it’s emotional manipulation and magic trick at the end made it less artistic and more artificial/obvious. It’s worth watching once but not a keeper imo.
I’m taking down the Christmas decorations. Note for next year: put the tree up, and then spend a day having the obsessive-compulsive family members obsessively straighten the fronds before putting the ornaments on.
The whole country takes its decs down on twelfth night.
This morning not trace of the festivities anywhere, back to uniform grey.
Some people on my street still have their lights up. We’ll keep our wreath on the door until it’s obviously turning brown.
Except that it was JFK’s baby, and his years of hard work and promotion that led to it being passed in his name, after his death.
It is funny that JFK doesn’t get credit for Vietnam and immigration, or putting the mentally ill into homelessness, or unionizing government, but does get credit for the moon landing of 1969.
Except that it was JFK’s baby, and his years of hard work and promotion that led to it being passed in his name, after his death.
It is funny that JFK doesn’t get credit for Vietnam and immigration, or putting the mentally ill into homelessness, or unionizing government, but does get credit for the moon landing of 1969.
You mean a Flowbee?
My Sister (the one who is 29.. I'm five years older than her. Have I mentioned that?) had/probably still has one of those. She has three boys and she saved more than several bucks over the years... It really depends on what 'style' you want ;-)
Her boys were ok with it as long as their friends never found out... I'm also sure that they no longer let Mom cut their hair because unlike their Mom (my Sister. The one who is 29. I'm five years older than her) my Nephews never inherited the age-stasis gene, and they all are in their 30's and 40's. Two of them are actually older than I am.
Because I'm five years older than their Mom, who is... 29.
I love your math. With that kind of numerical logic in your repertoire, you should never have to work again.
(And I’m only 29, too, so there!)
It makes it worse, somehow.
That, and the music..
“then spend a day having the obsessive-compulsive family members obsessively straighten the fronds “
Sounds like a punishment from Dante.
We have a shaver for the byos’ hair, but it doesn’t vacuum. We just take them outside.
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