Then we drove up to the mountains with friends to stay at their cabin near Tahoe. On the way there, Kevin found out that Lisa teaches California History to fourth-graders. "I never took California history [being from Indiana]," he said. Then he proceeded to ask her all sorts of questions. After explaining about the Spanish Missions, the gold rush, the railroad, etc., Kevin asked her to tell him about the Treaty of Hidalgo.
What?? You can't say you don't know anything about California history if you know about the Treaty of Hidalgo.
The entire weekend was full of fun and laughter. We ate WAY too much food. It snowed all day on Saturday, which was cozy and fun. And it was gorgeous on Sunday. Meredith had her first sledding experience, which she seemed to like quite well.
Getting ready.
"That was fun dad! Let's do it again."
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That's an AWESOME photo of Meredith & Kevin.
What fun!
That little grin is priceless.
On a non-grin note, Amy/Kevin, could you post your perspective on the immigration bill? I heard this ridiculous argument today that illegal immigrants are taking jobs away from citizens. I'm sorry, last time I checked, I don't want most of the jobs they take. Our economy needs those workers, and I'm not just talking about the cost of produce increasing. What about the 7 billion they contribute to social security that they will never get back? The world needs your opinion.
Too cute! I love that precious little grin on Meredith's face. You'd almost think she knows she's cute!
Janice - I'm not sure what immigration bill you're referring to. The only one I've read about is the driver's licenses for illegal aliens bill (which I'm against for security reasons and also for commonsense reasons - you don't give goodies to people who break the law. That includes a free education, medical services, AND driver's licenses).
Haha! It's no CA history, but who could ever forget Little Hoosiers :o). Meredith is such a cutie!!!
She's talking about the federal bill which passed the house and is being altered by the Senate as we speak.
The money they contribute to Social Security (that they will never get back-sniffle sniffle) is the price they pay for breaking the law and entering the country illegally, stealing someone else's social security number and refusing to assimilate into the culture.
By the way, illegals take more in social services (schools, jails, welfare, emergency services, etc.) than they will ever contribute. And let's not even start on the security risk a open border poses ('Dirty Bombs' Crossed U.S. Borders in Test: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/27/D8GK83AG6.html)
Not controlling who we let into the country and making them assimilate into our culture is a suicide pact. The people we let in are our future rulers. We should at least insist they show some respect for our laws: kick them out and let them come back legally, using the laws and mechanisms we've set up.
Good Point Anon:
Robert Samuelson writes: "Gosh, they're all bad ideas ... We'd be importing poverty. This isn't because these immigrants aren't hardworking, many are. Nor is it because they don't assimilate, many do. But they generally don't go home, assimilation is slow and the ranks of the poor are constantly replenished ... [It] is a conscious policy of creating poverty in the United States while relieving it in Mexico ... The most lunatic notion is that admitting more poor Latino workers would ease the labor market strains of retiring baby boomers ? Far from softening the social problems of an aging society, more poor immigrants might aggravate them by pitting older retirees against younger Hispanics for limited government benefits ... [Moreover], [i]t's a myth that the U.S. economy 'needs' more poor immigrants.
--J.J.
We're far afield of Amy's post, however, I'll bite:
I think that the very liberal Paul Krugman of the New York Times but it best: "Unfortunately, low-skill immigrants don't pay enough taxes to cover the cost of the [government] benefits they receive. As the Swiss writer Max Frisch wrote about his own country's experience with immigration, 'We wanted a labor force, but human beings came.' "
Krugman, citing a leading Harvard study, continued: "that U.S. high school dropouts would earn as much as 8 percent more if it weren't for Mexican immigration. That's why it's intellectually dishonest to say, as President Bush (and Ms. Phillips) does, that immigrants 'do jobs that Americans will not do.' The willingness of Americans to do a job depends on how much that job pays — and the reason some jobs pay too little to attract native-born Americans is competition from poorly paid immigrants."
How strange; the two leading economic writers for the nation's two leading LIBERAL newspapers summarily debunk the economic underpinning of the president's and the Senate's immigration proposals....
We love the pics! Soo cute! Can't wait for you to move here!
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