Ummm....
Yes, that's right.
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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Quoting my father, (so you know that I come by this opinion in an honest manner), "A sight like that could make a man lose all appetite for food."
I really wish I could have shared that with him, (the sight, that is).
Agreed. It will be colder after it gets warmer for a while.
Weather prognosticators should fear for their continued employment with you around.
Ummm....
Yes, that's right.
“She’ll look later, Clark, her eyes are frozen.”
Canada. Unnngh.
LOL!
Actually, it’s what well-behaved dogs means. Good morning!
Treat immigrant Hispanics differently and you have a different ballgame as well.
There are lots of things we wish we could share.
Caught “Prometheus.” Smaug scrubbed before I got there. Thank you!
Good morning! The picture reminded me of the cats sitting patiently while the opossum ate their food.
Lol...
It is great to see that whenever you place two great English speaking nations next to each other the ribbing starts...
Canada/U.S
Newzealand/Australia
Blighty/Scotland
Sadly ,not all learned to play Cricket. ...then the fun really ramps up.
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Mr. Sg read a cat social-structure book, and, in feral colonies, it is customary to allow one who already has a favorable geographic position to keep it until he/she is finished, and then it is the next cat’s turn to go. IOW, whoever’s there first has dibs. No bickering, no complaining, no nada. One of Fluffy’s behaviors when he was still an outdoor kitten was that he’d gulp down a little bit of the food I brought out and then gather all the other kittens (obviously not his sibs) so that they could eat, too. He was far too nice a kitty to leave outside. There was another, tinier dark kitten who was very hostile, hissing, etc., even when it knew I brought it food. Not long after, one of our dogs got a hold of that one and I found it dead in the middle of the backyard.
I’ll back that up. When we were feeding some feral cats, the leader of the cat-pack was very nice to the others.
One of the least approachable didn’t seem to thrive.
Good one to wake up to, for sure! LOL!
I’m going for my final post-op exam today, and hopefully, he will tell me something good. I have no clue what I will do if he insists on providing multi-focal reading glasses for me. They are NOT in the budget.
Yesterday, I was suffering from the first sore throat I can recall having in several years. And there isn’t a lot I can do about it. I will see if I can find some topical throat spray, but outside of that, I’m limited to cough drops to ease the pain. *sigh*
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