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 Senates 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. Its fluid, which is how we want it to be.
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WHOA! COOL!
One of my favorite Mencken quotes:
The state or, to make matters more concrete, the government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they cant get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advanced auction on stolen goods.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/h_l_mencken.html
Having predictably never heard of him...
“No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.”
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/h_l_mencken_2.html#GLuJFrdtBJweo9gx.99
We watched "Remo Williams--The Adventure Begins" last night.
Good morning! How are you and Pink Baby feeling today?
We have a collection of older Jackie Chan movies which include that one.
That looks like fun! I hope it plays well on my puter. Thanks for posting.
Dispelling, isn’t that when you use the wrong letters in a word?
Is that cat food or hairball?
Soooooooo are you now full of vim and vigor (and fresh red blood cells)?
Nope. All I got done was the typing and the cross-matching. Tomorrow, I have to be there at 1400 and will spend the next six to eight hours being held hostage by a bag of blood.
Still...if the hemoglobin had been less than 6., I would be in the hospital right now.
So tomorrow, I will take my Nook and my Kindle and a snack and be ready to rock and roll. Sorta.
Good question. You’d have to ask a Tasmanian, I guess.
Better, thanks. Most of us went to the Cub Scouts’ Pinewood Derby this morning, but Kathleen stayed home with Tom, her favorite squishy pillow. It’s been pouring rain most of the time.
Overcast, 47...breezy.
I just found my late eldest sister’s youngest son...He sent me a message on facebook, telling me they have moved to Henderson...What a place to move to!
We will get together next week, I think. How exciting! I haven’t seen him since he was a fat little baby! LOL!
He's perhaps my favorite curmudgeon.
Purple remains my favorite color and Suzzy my favorite Roche sister. Or maybe Maggie. Or Terre.
Well, duh. Darks coulda told ya that like most of his acquaintances, you'd need to suck up some blood before you'd feel better.
Maybe I should have warned you about him. Or him about you.
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Hmm. Whose job is it to warn people about me?
Darks and I are kindred spirits...
And as for being warned about you, well, your screen name says it all...NICKnamedBob. I take that to mean, literally, a NICK...like one would get with a knife if one isn’t careful...
So I’m very careful...;o])
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