Page 11 of 11 FirstFirst ... 7891011
Results 251 to 271 of 271
  1. #251
    Believe.
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Jul 2005
    Post Count
    22,886
    you son of a , i'll take on any board liberal just name the time and place, WHAT THE ARE YOU PUSSIES GONNA DO
    I'll meet you at 35 and Gold Canyon in 2 hours. See you there.

  2. #252
    above average height mavs>spurs's Avatar
    My Team
    Dallas Mavericks
    Join Date
    Nov 2010
    Post Count
    9,772
    [youtube]B4GvuoG8h3Y[\youtube]
    re ed be@ner can't even embed a video

  3. #253
    above average height mavs>spurs's Avatar
    My Team
    Dallas Mavericks
    Join Date
    Nov 2010
    Post Count
    9,772
    I'll meet you at 35 and Gold Canyon in 2 hours. See you there.
    Dallas is a lot further from SA than 2 hours and you know it, you pussy liberal coward NOBODY can step to me..NOBODY i'll stomp out ANY board liberal/ apologist and that's on 44 oakland blood you ol ass

  4. #254
    Troll
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Post Count
    383
    re ed be@ner can't even embed a video
    re ed ****** ? Do you just randomly assume the background of a person and rant sentence fragments in real life?


    keep it real, cool angry dude.


  5. #255
    Motivation for me... Stringer_Bell's Avatar
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Apr 2009
    Post Count
    4,270
    Illegal immigration is not what hurts this country, the problem is the abuse of government aid by average, able-bodied citizens...and how that abuse makes it impossible for the working poor to qualify for any aid or get any temporary relief. Good, hard-working, God-fearing American families go without so liars and cheats can stay at home and make more babies while government funded daycare (aka the public school system) takes care of their other kids.

  6. #256
    Troll
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Post Count
    383
    Illegal immigration is not what hurts this country, the problem is the abuse of government aid by average, able-bodied citizens...and how that abuse makes it impossible for the working poor to qualify for any aid or get any temporary relief. Good, hard-working, God-fearing American families go without so liars and cheats can stay at home and make more babies while government funded daycare (aka the public school system) takes care of their other kids.
    try harder. That is not the end of the money trail and some people or hording it.
    I´ll name a few ing the country over and slave waging it
    Charles Butt
    Bob Perry

  7. #257
    Veteran Wild Cobra's Avatar
    My Team
    Portland Trailblazers
    Join Date
    May 2007
    Post Count
    43,117
    Illegal immigration is not what hurts this country, the problem is the abuse of government aid by average, able-bodied citizens...and how that abuse makes it impossible for the working poor to qualify for any aid or get any temporary relief. Good, hard-working, God-fearing American families go without so liars and cheats can stay at home and make more babies while government funded daycare (aka the public school system) takes care of their other kids.
    Illegal immigration helps enable this. If we had less unwilling illegal immigrants to work for minimum wages, employers would have to raise wages enough to attract willing workers. The government can also reduce or deny benefits to those they refer to work, who do not.

  8. #258
    Troll
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Post Count
    383
    Illegal immigration helps enable this. If we had less unwilling illegal immigrants to work for minimum wages, employers would have to raise wages enough to attract willing workers. The government can also reduce or deny benefits to those they refer to work, who do not.
    400 years of either slavery, sharecropping and illegal employment and you expect these certain jobs to get a pay raise?
    Do you honestly believe that employers involved in this activity will out of just strong moral character raise their salaries? or fight tooth and nail for the cheapest deal they can find, even if that means moving offshore?

    it, don´t answer. I already know it will be 100% garbage. The average conservative thinks things through as much as rock.

  9. #259
    W4A1 143 43CK? Nbadan's Avatar
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Nov 2001
    Post Count
    32,408

  10. #260
    dangerous floater Winehole23's Avatar
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Post Count
    113,945
    It’s an iPad and smartphone world. Yet we’re stuck with an immigration system formed in the age of black-and-white TVs.


    Whereas the success of yesterday’s Fortune 500 companies — like U.S. Steel and Amoco — once depended on resources, today’s Fortune 500 companies — like Google and eBay — depend on access to talent. Even so, there’s been no substantive reform of our immigration laws for nearly 50 years. It’s now more difficult than ever for foreign-born workers to come, contribute, and thrive in the United States.


    For the time being, America remains the destination of choice in the global economy. But talented individuals can now also find very attractive opportunities in other countries around the world. China for example offers generous stipends, access to incubators, and other incentives to lure home top scientists and engineers.


    Meanwhile, we train many of the world’s leading innovators in our universities — only to send them packing once they graduate. We’re sending them away to compete against us, even as we face a massive shortage of more than 230,000 advanced degree workers in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.


    It’s simple: The more skilled labor we have in America, the more innovation we have, the better our economy performs, and the more jobs we create for all Americans. Here are the facts:



    • Every 100 immigrants who earn advanced degrees in the U.S. and then stay to work in STEM fields create 262 jobs for American workers.
    • More than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant.
    • More than three-fourths of all patents at the top 10 U.S. patent-producing universities (including Caltech, MIT, and Stanford) in 2011 had at least one foreign-born inventor.
    http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02...gration-hasnt/

  11. #261
    Veteran
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Post Count
    97,536
    "Illegal immigration is not what hurts this country, the problem is the abuse of government aid"

    got any "non-partisan" numbers?

    How would those numbers compare with $Ts the Fed is lending at 0% to the fiaance sector?

    how many $Ts in profits mega-corps make and pay almost no taxes?

    how about the for-profit sick-care providers over charging the country about $1T/year to keep us sick and taking their overprice BigPharma drugs?

    Seems like you only want to the poor, while letting the 1%/UCA get by with no/low taxes, job destruction, war on employees, and wealth-sucking.


    Last edited by boutons_deux; 02-28-2013 at 04:46 PM.

  12. #262
    Veteran
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Post Count
    97,536
    How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System

    Thirty years ago in January, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), now the biggest operator of private prisons in the world, opened its first prison, a federal immigrant detention center in Houston, Texas.

    Three years after the company’s first contract in 1983, according to Southern Changes magazine, the company spent some $100,000 lobbying the state of Tennessee to secure a correctional facility privatization bill, which helped propel the business to financial success. Last year, the company brought in $1.7 billion in revenues, about a quarter of which came from contracts with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal Bureau of Prisons to incarcerate non-citizens in the United States.

    For a company that began and later thrived by imprisoning immigrants, the federal immigration policy overhaul expected this year presents both opportunities and challenges. -

    In recognition of the profits at stake, the prison companies have invested in key legislators leading the reform process—although the companies are coy about their purpose, denying that they are attempting to influence Congress’s deliberations.

    Their lobbying efforts are nothing new. CCA and other large private prison companies have forged ties with political insiders by spending huge sums on lobbying firms, campaign contributions and grants to friendly think tanks. An analysis by the Associated Press last year found that the three major private prison corporations—CCA, the Geo Group, the industry’s largest two companies, along with a smaller company, the Utah-based Management and Training Corporation—spent roughly $45 million over the past decade to influence state and federal government.


    The money spent on influencing lawmakers has coincided with a sharp increase in immigrant detention and deportation. Immigrant detention costs taxpayers about $2 billion a year, and private prisons are increasingly tapped by the federal government to house the over 400,000 undo ented immigrants detained annually, a number that has more than doubled over the last decade. In 2012 alone, the two publicly traded prison companies, CCA and Geo Group, took in over $441.9 million in federal contracts to house so-called “criminal aliens” for the federal Bureau of Prisons. That year, the two companies combined netted $296.9 million in revenues from ICE contracts. These figures could grow or shrink depending on the details of the immigration reform overhaul debated in the coming months.

    As immigration talks began formally in January with the so-called “Gang of Eight” negotiations in the Senate, legislators close to the industry were quick to promote policies that are in line with what critics call “the business of detention.”

    Texas Senator John Cornyn, the number-two Senate Republican, was one of the first high-profile lawmakers to throw cold water on talks to create a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undo ented immigrants, calling such an idea a non-starter. Cornyn said that enforcement would be his foremost priority. We have to do “everything we can to secure our southwestern border,” Cornyn declared.


    Cornyn’s idea of “robust” border security was made clear in an amendment he offered during debate over a supplemental spending bill three years ago. Cornyn’s amendment called for $3 billion to be spent on a mix of drones, border security guards and funding for 3,300 beds for immigrant detention over two years, as well as 500 additional detention officers. In 2005, Cornyn’s immigration reform legislation called for 10,000 new ICE detention beds.


    http://www.thenation.com/article/173....BPn86SqL.dpuf


    corporate $Ms making federal immigration policy



  13. #263
    dangerous floater Winehole23's Avatar
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Post Count
    113,945

  14. #264
    Savvy Veteran spurraider21's Avatar
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Apr 2012
    Post Count
    100,825

  15. #265
    Veteran RD2191's Avatar
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Dec 2012
    Post Count
    51,864

  16. #266
    Veteran Wild Cobra's Avatar
    My Team
    Portland Trailblazers
    Join Date
    May 2007
    Post Count
    43,117
    I know it might fail in the senate, and Obummer will not sign in, but...

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/240/text?q={%22search%22%3A[%22hr240%22]}

  17. #267
    Veteran
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Post Count
    97,536
    if u say the visas are destroying the local workers, maybe you clowns should also stop handing out free college scholarships to internationals...
    colleges recruit rich foreign students because they pay their own way

  18. #268
    Veteran
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Post Count
    97,536
    I know it might fail in the senate, and Obummer will not sign in, but...

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/240/text?q={%22search%22%3A[%22hr240%22]}
    As with impeaching Clinton, Repugs get a huge hard on, but then fail to deliver.

  19. #269
    dangerous floater Winehole23's Avatar
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Post Count
    113,945
    It’s simple: The more skilled labor we have in America, the more innovation we have, the better our economy performs, and the more jobs we create for all Americans. Here are the facts:




    • Every 100 immigrants who earn advanced degrees in the U.S. and then stay to work in STEM fields create 262 jobs for American workers.
    • More than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant.
    • More than three-fourths of all patents at the top 10 U.S. patent-producing universities (including Caltech, MIT, and Stanford) in 2011 had at least one foreign-born inventor.

  20. #270
    Veteran
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Post Count
    97,536
    "had at least one foreign-born inventor."

    I bet a country-of-origin breakout would show nearly all of those patents were for South or East Asians.




  21. #271
    dangerous floater Winehole23's Avatar
    My Team
    San Antonio Spurs
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Post Count
    113,945
    "human supply chains" -- legal immigration now puts so-called illegal immigration in the shade

    In 2015, the number of migrant workers entering the United States on visas was nearly double that of undo ented arrivals—almost the inverse of just 10 years earlier. Yet notice of this dramatic shift, and examination of its implications for U.S. law and the regulation of employment in particular, has been absent from legal scholarship.
    This Article fills that gap, arguing that employers’ recruitment of would-be migrants from other countries, unlike their use of undo ented workers already in the United States, creates a transnational network of labor intermediaries—the “human supply chain”—whose operation undermines the rule of law in the workplace, benefitting U.S. companies by reducing labor costs while creating distributional harms for U.S. workers, and placing temporary migrant workers in situations of severe subordination. It identifies the human supply chain as a key structure of the global economy, a close analog to the more familiar product supply chains through which U.S. companies manufacture products abroad. The Article highlights a stark governance deficit with regard to human supply chains, analyzing the causes and harmful effects of an effectively unregulated world market for human labor.
    https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/assets/Upl...2-2-Gordon.pdf

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •