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2 hours ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:
How was it once said to me?,"you're like a dust devil. Beautiful to look at but you don't want to get too close". Imagine someone saying that to you. I mean how are you supposed to take something like that? Well I can tell you that I was hurt by that comment but I never said so.
Aww... Scotty, I'm sincerely sorry that I hurt you with my playful ribbing. Once I wrestle with someone in the ditch, I generally feel closer to them and free to flip them shlt! I'm a shltflipper... and an a$$hole (ask Muleslayer;)! Please accept my apology and know that I love you and see that you're a good man with a HUUGE heart. I want nothing but happiness for you and your family.
Ready? I'm runnin' in for a hug!!!
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Cutting Immigration in Half Would Make Americans Wealthier
The bill to curb immigration supported by President Donald Trump would add to the wealth of Americans.
Trump on Wednesday announced his support for legislation proposed by Senators Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and David Perdue, R-Ga., that would cut legal immigration into the United States by half and grant entry based on education, the ability to speak English, and jobs skills.
While reducing immigration would cut overall U.S. economic growth by reducing population growth, gross domestic product per U.S. resident would grow, according to an analysis of census and economic data by Breitbart News.
Immigrants are responsible for about half of the population growth in the U.S. This population growth contributes to the growth of the labor force and therefore to Gross Domestic Product. According to Joel Prakken of Macroeconomic Advisers, the reduction in the labor force from immigration curbs would “take two to three tenths of a percentage point off GDP growth every year over the next decade.”
As a result, economic growth is likely to be lower than it would be under current law. The Federal Reserve currently estimates that the economy will grow at a 2.1 percent rate this year and sees 1.9 percent the following year. Its most recent estimates say the long run growth rate will be around 1.8%. Using those forecasts, by 2030 U.S. GDP would be around $21.6 trillion.
But that larger GDP would be shared among U.S. population of 359.4 million, according to Census Bureau estimates, compared with 325 million today. Included in those estimates are an additional 16.9 million immigrants. As a result, GDP per capita would be at around $60,100.
Using Prakken’s higher estimated drag of three-tenths of a percentage point, lower immigration would result in a GDP of $21.5 trillion in 2030. But if overall immigration were reduced to 600,000 per year, from the current 1.1 million, the 2030 population would be 350.2 million. GDP per person would be around $61,500.
This chart shows how GDP per capita under existing law would likely compare with GDP per capita under the Cotton-Perdue bill, known as the RAISE Act.
Cutting immigration in half will grow GDP per person in the U.S.
What’s more, it’s likely that more of that additional wealth would accrue to the benefit of working class and poor Americans. New immigrants tend to compete with low income natives and earlier immigrants for less-skilled positions, putting downward pressure on wages. The reduction of immigrants will likely force employers to bid up the wages of these workers. As a result, these workers will receive a higher portion of national income.
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If you still don't get it that Trump isn't an Ideologue but the Outsider we've been praying for... you might be a
commieprogressive democrat!You just might be a Progressive Democrat if...
By Richard KirkJeff Foxworthy made it big with his "you just might be a redneck" routine. Foxworthy's success inspired me to flatter him, sincerely, with a "you just might be a Progressive Democrat" imitation. The take-off goes as follows:
If you think you are the most tolerant person in the room but label all opposing views "hate speech," you just might be a Progressive Democrat.
If you believe that being *** is hardwired and unchangeable but insist that male and female are merely social constructs and that folks can change their "gender identities" from one day to the next, there's a good chance you are a Progressive Democrat.
If you lose sleep over a possible two-degree increase in global temperature over the next fifty years and believe that 97% of all climate scientists think the Earth is getting dramatically warmer due to greenhouse gases...and that buying a heavily subsidized Tesla will make things appreciably better, there's a good chance you're a no-windmills-in-my-backyard Progressive Democrat.
If you have no idea who Richard Lindzen, John Coleman, Bjorn Lomborg, or Freeman Dyson is, you're probably a very Green Progressive Democrat.
If you are passionate about protecting snail darters, spotted owls, and gray wolves but believe there's a constitutional right to dismember a nine-month-old human baby in his mother's womb, you are quite likely a Progressive Democrat.
If you cite Pope Francis's comments about global warming and the environment, believing they come from one of the most morally insightful persons on the planet, but pay no attention to papal pronouncements concerning abortion and the family, there's a good chance you are a Nancy Pelosi, cafeteria-Catholic Progressive Democrat.
If you support "diversity" but see nothing amiss with colleges and universities whose faculties are overwhelmingly leftist, or if you have no problem with major media that are similarly one-sided politically, you just might be a Progressive Democrat.
If you don't know that the Progressive movement and the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, are closely connected with racist eugenics, you're probably a historically illiterate Progressive Democrat.
If you still think Benghazi was caused by an internet video and have no clue that the Coptic immigrant who produced the video was imprisoned for several months in Texas, you are almost certainly a mainstream media Progressive Democrat.
If you aren't troubled by the use of the IRS to suppress conservative "Tea Party" groups prior to the 2012 election (and afterward), you just might be a Progressive Democrat.
If you are outraged by Donald Trump's about-faces and inaccurate statements but aren't at all perturbed by President Obama's misrepresentations with respect to the Affordable Care Act ("if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor; we'll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year"), there's a good chance you are a Progressive Democrat.
If you think "Fast and Furious" is a remake of Eddie Murphy's 48 Hrs., you just might be a Progressive Democrat.
If you were alarmed by the never confirmed accusation that a single person in a large Tea Party crowd hurled the "n-word" at a black congressman but are unperturbed when leftists actually riot, destroy property, endanger lives, and shut down political speech on campuses – or when an organized group of Black Lives Matter protesters chant, "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon," it is quite likely you are a Progressive Democrat.
If you are "pro-choice" but don't believe in giving Americans choices when it comes to buying a firearm or choosing their kids' schools, you just might be a Progressive Democrat.
If you are incensed by the income gap in this country but think nothing about the Obamas sending their kids to the elite Sidwell Friends School while opposing and even removing educational options for poor parents whose offspring are stuck in failing Washington, D.C. public schools, you are quite likely a teacher union-supporting Progressive Democrat.
If you don't mind pressing 2 for English, you're more than likely a Progressive Democrat.
If it doesn't give you a moment's pause to overturn marital traditions that have existed for millennia because a handful of possibly biased social science surveys say it's okay, you are probably a nearsighted, kid-unfriendly Progressive Democrat.
If you don't acknowledge the violent history of Islam but instinctively associate Christianity with the Crusades, the Inquisition, and Salem's witch trials, there's more than a good chance you are a secular Progressive Democrat for whom "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
If you think "lack of economic opportunity" is the primary cause of the 70% out-of-wedlock birth rate among black Americans and that fatherlessness has little to do with high crime rates in that community, you just may be an ideologically blinkered, morality-averse Progressive Democrat.
If you think the words "racist," "sexist," "homophobic," "ethnocentric," and "religiously bigoted" should be integral parts of the National Anthem and never give a thought to the fact that a million immigrants come to the U.S. each year, you just may be, and probably are, an angry, ungrateful, politically obsessed Progressive Democrat.
If you want to get me fired or boycott my business for writing this piece, you're probably a Progressive Democrat. But you're too late. I'm already retired.
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On 8/5/2017 at 10:49 AM, MillieChatham said:
Really funny but, truth be told, I was there back when they decided eggs, butter, steak were bad but carbs we better. I thought they were totally nuts and refused to give up eggs,
butter, steak. Real butter, raw mile, organic eggs and grass fed beef. Lay off the processed meats and preservatives. Checked my blood pressure the other morning: 120/80.
and we take no medications of any kind.
Good for you Millie!
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10 minutes ago, Jaxinjersey said:
What is this "eating healthy" thing? Does chocolate combined with fruit count???
I think they cancel each other out so... no calories either!!! 🍓 🍍 🍫
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On 8/3/2017 at 10:57 AM, yota691 said:
Mark Dice brings us this Breaking News...
Stephen Miller Flips Over Table in Outburst
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This Is Why Eating Healthy Is Hard (Time Travel Dietician)
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Speaking of BadAss cats...
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Mega Millions for 8/4
11/25/33/45/57 MB 07 🍀
02/08/14/19/30 PB 13 🍀
PowerBall for 8/5
33/34/36/43/62 PB 25 🍀
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Over at the American Digest, there's a collection of all the things that this administration has accomplished so far.220 things
You'll feel a lot better.On Immigration- Authorized DHS to hire 10,000 ICE officers & 5,000 border patrol agents
- Secured funding for more immigration judges for deportation cases in 2017 budget
- Ended “catch and release” policy
- ICE arrests up 40% as of May
- ICE arrests are 75% criminal illegals as of May
- Ice Arrests for non criminal illegals up 150% as of May due to sanctuary cities polices making Ice go to the home instead of the court houses
- 70%+ decrease in border crossings of illegal aliens in first 6 months per head of ICE (07/18/17)
- No Cuban refugees seen by Coast Guard in Apr first time in 7 years
- Open bidding and plans submitted for the WALL. Finalists selected, prototypes to be unveiled this summer per CBP official/Breitbart news.
- 6ft chain linked fences being replaced by 20ft hardened steel fencing at border
- More than 1400 gang members have been arrested by ICE
- This year the U.S. has already deported 398 MS-13 gang members back to El Salvador – compared to only 534 for all of 2016
- Texas has passed a law outlawing sanctuary cities
- Foods stamp requests by ILLEGALS D O W N
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The Trump administration has moved to reopen the cases of hundreds of illegal immigrants who had been given a reprieve from deportation by Obama
- Per Sec Kelly Plans are to start building the WALL by end of summer.
- Travel ban EO cut refugees to 50,000 limit has been reached as of 07/12/17). USA now closed to refugee without a close connection to the USA
- per Breitbart Sec Kelly has refused to expand H2-B visa program in FY 2017 Update 06/22/17 Sec Kelly will expand the H2-b visa program for a limited number of businesses that are in danger of failing and can’t find employment per breitbart.
- Pres Trump and Sec of DHS ended DAPA (06/16/17)
- Refugees dropped by half entering the USA in first three months of Pres Trump’s admin over Obama’s admin. (6/24/17 per Washington Times)
- In fiscal year 2017 so far, ICE has removed over 2,700 criminal gang members, compared to 2,057 criminal gang members in all of fiscal year 2016. (07/20/17) per Whitehouse
- Per Sec Kelly 66,000 mostly criminal illegals arrested by ICE in first 5 months
- Kate’s Law passed the House 06/29/17)
- No Sanctuary Cities Law Passed the House (06/29/17)
- Illegal immigrant arrests in San Diego, Ca have more than doubled from 2016 and 2015 figures per the San Diego Union Tribune (07/04/17)
- In a reversal of Obama administration policy, federal prosecutors with Operation Streamline are filing criminal charges against migrants the first time they are caught crossing the border illegally. Per Tucson.com and breitbart (07/05/17)
- Refugee Arrivals Plummet in Week After Supreme Court Ruling on Trump Executive Order per Breitbart and Department of State website (07/05/17)
- The International Entrepreneur Rule obama era loophole was closed by DHS on (0711/17). The rule allowed illegals to stay in the country for 2 and half years if they were “starting a business” per breitbart.
- ICE crackdown in Pueblo scaring some families back to Mexico per the Pueblo chieftain (07/10/17)
- House subcommittee includes $1.6 billion in funds for Wall in approbations bill (07/12/17) goes to full house for vote
- DHS proposes rule change to increase length (from 2 weeks to 90 days) and Distance (from 100 miles from the border to entire USA) for people to be immediately deported freeing up courts and stopping the lawfare over immigration. (07/15/17 ) per dailymail
- Thomas D. Homan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in an interview that since Trump entered office, illegal border crossings have crashed by almost 70 percent, “an historic low,” arrests inside the country have jumped 40 percent and that demands for illegal criminals in local jails has skyrocketed 80 percent. (07/18/17) per Washington Examiner
- AG Sessions said one goal of DOJ is to totally end illegal immigration (07/18/17) per Breitbart
- The Trump Administration is providing funding for the Texas National Guard’s efforts to assist in securing the state’s border with Mexico per Breitbart (07/18/17)
- Acting ICE Director Thomas D. Homan said he is going to deploy more officers and agents to “sanctuary cities” to arrest illegal criminal (07/18/17) per Washington examiner
- President Trump ordered the creation of the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) office at DHS, ensuring that our Government can no longer ignore the victims of criminal acts by illegal aliens. (04/26/17)
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America First
President Trump, Senator Cotton and David Perdue Introduce The RAISE Act…
Earlier today President Trump introduced a new immigration policy proposal for legal entry into the U.S. known as the RAISE Act. The RAISE Act eliminates the outdated Diversity Visa lottery system, which serves questionable economic and humanitarian interests. The RAISE Act replaces the current permanent employment-visa framework with a skills-based system that rewards applicants based on their individual merits.
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One more bump...
THIS SATURDAY! – Frogleg 5th Anniversary Cookout: Franklin, TN Aug. 5
https://intellectualfroglegs.com/frogleg-cookout-hoedown-shindig-thingy-open-discussion/
Wish I could go... have to move the youngest back to college
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I don't trust the sun. Why can't we look directly at it? What is it hiding?!
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Clearly, the BEST part of waking up is remembering that Hildabeast isn't POTUS!!!
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2 hours ago, George Hayduke said:
The writer of the article didn't even acknowledge a source. What you have is hearsay or just an out and out lie.
Hey George, maybe these two fence straddlers are Fake Americans. Fake Sources to their Fake News to feign Fake Outrage...
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20:00 mark: Newz-heimers... the media's inability to remember anything the democrats do! 😂
Thanks for for the swell bumps guys! 💋💋
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PowerBall for 08/02 17/25/32/43/47 PB 26 🍀
Mega Millions for 08/01 06/07/30/31/74 MB 01 🍀
01/09/27/30/63 MB 03 🍀
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TRUMP 2020!!!
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1 hour ago, Muleslayer said:
I just dropped Anchor! no one else here!
boat keys locked in the safe with my weaponry!
there is a fifth of Tim Smith Moonshine with my name on it!
I doubt I will be sober enough to login to night.
Bye yall!
Be safe and take care, Muleslayer! Give the Farmer's Daughter a kiss for me!
Glen Campbell Dead At 81
in Music Videos etc
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I already miss him. This is his last song... after his diagnosis of Alzheimer's (very touching)
Glen Campbell - I'm Not Gonna Miss You