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A steady flow of talented, industrious immigrants can fuel a booming economy
The Fresno Bee ^ | February 13, 2014 | Thomas J. Donohue, president & CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Posted on 02/15/2014 2:28:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: FlingWingFlyer
Among all 25- to 34-year-olds living in the United States, 10.6 percent of those with masters, professional or doctoral degrees are foreign born, compared with 8.5 percent of native-born young people....

That is pretty funny and it demonstrates the kind of math skills to be found in the WH and from other 0bama sycophants. In the equation the group being measured is ...

...those with masters, professional or doctoral degrees...

It is stated that 10.6% of that group are foreign born and 8.5% are native-born. Who comprises the other 80.9% of the group? Time travelers from the future who have not been born yet?

21 posted on 02/15/2014 2:49:31 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A steady flow of unskilled welfare hounds and can destroy the society.


22 posted on 02/15/2014 2:50:01 PM PST by ThanhPhero (Khách sang La Vang hanh huong tham vieng Maria)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, why is the Southern Border open to uneducated peons fleeing a poor National culture?


23 posted on 02/15/2014 2:51:43 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: TigersEye
economy stinks so bad that the uneducated and unskilled illegal aliens are leaving

And the Mexican economy is actually doing steadily better. As our economy slides into the abyss and the Mexican economy improves, the illegal immigration problem just might sort itself out. Or 21st Century Okies just might pack up and head for Mexico.

24 posted on 02/15/2014 2:52:57 PM PST by ThanhPhero (Khách sang La Vang hanh huong tham vieng Maria)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author is the Chamber. Screw you and the Rove, Ryan and McGraham RINO asshats.


25 posted on 02/15/2014 2:53:26 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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I’m willing to bet a miniscule percentage of those foreign born with masters, professional and doctorates are illegals.

The only foreign born professional who are also illegal aliens are lawyers in California. And we sure have a shortage of lawyers here. We need more illegal alien lawyers to put all the native born lawyers out on the street. That's the ticket.

26 posted on 02/15/2014 2:54:25 PM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: SeminoleCounty

I’ve worked in mixed corporate teams made up of Americans + (legal, professional) foreign-born members

and also with

American-only corporate teams.

The former kicked the butts of the latter EVERY TIME, and made me much more money in sales commissions.

This was particularly true when a gnarled problem rose, and we needed solutions from outside-the-box.

And that doesn’t count worldwide sales calls, where faces from ALL OVER THE WORLD help sell products to people from ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Provincialism = ignorance.

/and, yes, the 1%’ers are deliberately importing millions of peasants, and our own peasants are accepting the situation passively.
//Halluluia! My days of working as a roofer ended long ago!


27 posted on 02/15/2014 2:55:54 PM PST by warchild9
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will say that frequently, I find hard working and industrious immigrants vastly more desirable than the entitled lumps of flesh that many “real” Americans have become.

sadly, the American dream is all too frequently practiced by people that were born elsewhere.


28 posted on 02/15/2014 2:56:24 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: ThanhPhero

Well, yes, if our economy continues on a downward spiral that will definitely solve the illegal alien problem. That might make sense as a stratagem of policy in Progressive circles. I can only hope that the Republicans will think of something a little better. lol


29 posted on 02/15/2014 2:58:17 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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Among all 25- to 34-year-olds living in the United States, 10.6 percent of those with masters, professional or doctoral degrees are foreign born,

If we stopped immigration those with degrees would be 100% native born.

We are not a nation of immigrants. Colonists and pioneers carved this nation out of the wilderness with their bare hands. Immigrants showed up later.

30 posted on 02/15/2014 2:59:07 PM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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It's in our own best interests to welcome the world's brightest minds and hardest workers into our economy.

... the elephant in the room being that Americans, apparently, are no longer the brightest minds and hardest workers. That's the problem that should be addressed, in my opinion.

31 posted on 02/15/2014 3:02:58 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why would talented foreigners come here? In there home countries, they’re not expected to support a large number of idlers and moochers.


32 posted on 02/15/2014 3:18:28 PM PST by proxy_user
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um... they also use up our limited amount of resources like water, electricity, and gas. The average person drinks 182 gallons of water a year. There are an estimated 20 million illegals in the US.

Which means they are drinking 3 BILLION 640 million gallons of water a year.

but... that’s just DRINKING water.. they also use water for dishes, toilets, baths, ect

The average person uses a total of 100 gallons of water a day.

So lets do some math... 100 gallons * 365 days = 36,500 gallons per year PER illegal alien.

20 million X 36500 = 7300000000000 that’s 7 TRILLION 300 billion gallons of fresh water a year....

there are 39 trillion gallons of water in lake Tahoe... which means the illegals here are drinking lake Tahoe every 5 years or so.

Think about that the next time the government puts you on water restrictions or wont let farmers water their crops.


33 posted on 02/15/2014 3:23:54 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ESAD Tommy.


34 posted on 02/15/2014 3:25:06 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

“We are not a nation of immigrants. Colonists and pioneers carved this nation out of the wilderness with their bare hands. Immigrants showed up later.”

If the immigrants who “showed up” between 1890 and 1940 hadn’t “showed up”, you would have been writing that in German or Japanese.


35 posted on 02/15/2014 3:26:37 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yehh, if we seal off the border we risk stopping the flow of all of those Mexican scientists, engineers, medical researchers, and technological innovators who have been streaming across the border.


36 posted on 02/15/2014 3:28:13 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess we working class citizens should just settle for depressed wages and fewer opportunities to make way for people who broke into our county, broke our laws, undermined our economy, defrauded our social services, and conspire to sidestep our taxing authorities.


37 posted on 02/15/2014 3:29:22 PM PST by VTenigma
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A steady flow of talented, industrious immigrants can fuel a booming economy,

Cool. So when can we ease the restrictions on Western European immigration so we can start bringing in all of those culturally compatible German scientists and British mathematicians we need?

Didn't think so...

38 posted on 02/15/2014 3:30:28 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
2 words:

Drug gangs.

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39 posted on 02/15/2014 3:32:06 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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Here they are, a horde of talented and industrious immigrants ready to stimulate the economy.


40 posted on 02/15/2014 3:33:07 PM PST by Benito Cereno
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