Every Immigrant Without High School Degree Costs US $640,000

Every Immigrant Without High School Degree Costs US $640,000:
"...According to the report, first generation immigrants as a group increase the nation’s fiscal deficit.
In other words, the government benefits they receive exceed the taxes paid.
The National Academies’ report provides 75-year fiscal projections for new immigrants and their descendants.
The fiscal impact varies greatly according to the education level of the immigrant.
Low-skill immigrants are shown to impose substantial fiscal costs that extend far into the future.
The future government benefits they will receive greatly exceed the taxes they will pay.
...However, a rough estimate of the future net outlays to be paid by taxpayers (in constant 2012 dollars) for immigrants without a high school diploma appears to be around $640,000 per immigrant over 75 years. The average fiscal loss is around $7,551 per year (in constant 2012 dollars).
Slightly more than 4 million adult immigrants without a high school diploma have entered the U.S. since 2000 and continue to reside here.
According to the estimates in the National Academies report, the net present value of the future fiscal costs of those immigrants is $920 billion.
This means government would have to immediately raise taxes by $920 billion and put that sum into a bank account earning 3 percent plus inflation per year to cover the future fiscal losses that will be generated by those immigrants..."

Lunch video-----The Truth About The NYC/NJ Terror Attacks

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KNOWN WOLF, AGAIN: As Usual, NY-NJ Bomber Rahami Was Already Known to Authorities | PJ Media

KNOWN WOLF, AGAIN: As Usual, NY-NJ Bomber Rahami Was Already Known to Authorities | PJ Media:

"In July, Oklahoma Senator Jim Lankford announced he would be launching a six-month probe of intelligence failures in terrorism cases. He particularly would focus on those cases where suspects had already been investigated by law enforcement authorities."

Gonorrhea is more dangerous than ever as resistance to antibiotics grows

Gonorrhea is more dangerous than ever as resistance to antibiotics grows - The Washington Post
"U.S. health officials have identified a cluster of gonorrhea infections that show sharply increased resistance to the last effective treatment available for the country's second most commonly reported infectious disease.
...If the bacteria continue to develop resistance, that end-of-the-line therapy ultimately will fail, and an estimated 800,000 Americans a year could face untreatable gonorrhea and the serious health problems it causes, health officials said.
This latest news about antibiotic resistance came as world leaders gathered at an unusual meeting at the United Nations to address the rising threat posed by superbugs, microbes that can’t be stopped with drugs..."

Clinton campaign: Yes, world has 'right' to immigrate to U.S.

Clinton campaign: Yes, world has 'right' to immigrate to U.S. | Washington Examiner
"Do people around the world have a right to move to the United States?
It's a bedrock belief of most conservatives that there is no such right.
The U.S. sets its own immigration policy, admits whom it chooses, and foreign nationals in foreign countries have no right — a claim that could be pursued in court — to enter the United States.
Now, Hillary Clinton says there is such a right, at least if a tweet from her campaign headquarters can be taken for a policy pronouncement.
This is what happened.
In his Monday speech on terrorism and immigration, Donald Trump said, "We want people to come into our country, but they have to come in legally, through a process… No one has a right to immigrate to this country. It is the job of a responsible government to admit only those who expect to succeed and flourish here and really be proud of what they've done and where they came from. They have to love our country."
In that quote was the fundamental principle:
There is no right to immigrate to the United States.
Shortly after Trump's speech, the Clinton campaign in Ohio tweeted out the story of a Libyan who came to the Unites States on a student visa in 1994, was not able to renew it, and simply stayed in the country illegally.
He didn't exactly live in the shadows, settling in Dayton and founding the Islamic Federation of Ohio and the Islamic Center for Peace.
After two decades, he received permanent residency in 2015.
In the story, headlined "Donald Trump would have kicked my family out of the country," the man's son, whose name was given as Mohamed G., wrote, "There was no way that I could let a person that disrespects my father and other immigrants win the White House."
On Monday, the Clinton Ohio campaign tweeted Mohamed G.'s picture with Trump's quote, "No one has the right to immigrate to this country." The campaign added the comment: "We disagree."
The same day, the main Hillary Clinton campaign twitter account, @HillaryClinton, retweeted the "We disagree" tweet..."

Meet Hamdog the burger-hot dog hybrid you've been waiting for

Meet Hamdog the burger-hot dog hybrid you've been waiting for - CNET
"Craving a hamburger or hot dog? 
Why choose one when you can have both? 
An Australian man has put a new twist on those all-American meaty main courses by patenting the Hamdog, which relieves your indecision by cramming both choices into one.

The Hamdog is exactly what you might make if you were a college student who'd had a few too many beers and started rummaging through your dorm fridge at 2 a.m. 
There's a regular hamburger patty, but with the addition of a hot dog neatly splitting it right down the middle. 
The best part? 
A mutant bun that covers the whole thing, and looks kind of like the planet Saturn in profile."

GOP subpoenas FBI to turn over Clinton email docs | Washington Examiner

GOP subpoenas FBI to turn over Clinton email docs | Washington Examiner:

"House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, subpoenaed FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday for documents and information related to the security of the private email account and server Hillary Clinton used when she led the State Department.

Smith asked Comey for the documents in a Sept. 9 letter, but then issued the subpoena after Comey failed to comply with the request."

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History for September 23

History for September 23 - On-This-Day.com:
William McGuffy 1800, Victoria Chaflin Woodhull 1838, Walter Lippmann 1889


Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.) 1920, Ray Charles 1930, Bruce Springsteen 1949 - Musician


1779 - John Paul Jones, commander of the American warship Bon Homme, was quoted as saying "I have not yet begun to fight!"


1845 - The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York was formed by Alexander Joy Cartwright. It was the first baseball team in America.


1846 - Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.


1930 - Flashbulbs were patented by Johannes Ostermeier.


1952 - Richard Nixon gave his "Checkers Speech". At the time he was a candidate for U.S. vice-president.


1962 - "The Jetsons" premiered on ABC-TV. It was the first program on the network to be carried in color.


1986 - Japanese newspapers quoted Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as saying that minorities lowered the "intelligence level" of America.


1991 - U.N. weapons inspectors find documents detailing Iraq's secret nuclear weapons program. The find in Baghdad triggered a standoff with authorities in Iraq.

Judge: Release Clinton Security Docs Within 5 Days | The Daily Caller

Judge: Release Clinton Security Docs Within 5 Days | The Daily Caller:

"A frustrated federal judge ordered the State Department to begin producing within five days hundreds of documents on whether required or recommended security training, briefings or courses were completed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides."

Oh, the humanity!-----Cornell football coach apologizes for rewarding players with sombrero

Cornell football coach apologizes for rewarding players with sombrero - The College Fix:
Mexican student ‘excited that our team incorporates a part of the Mexican heritage’

If #TacoTrucksOnEveryCorner is Twitter’s cheeky response to a Latino Donald Trump supporter warning about the hegemonic tendencies of his culture, the complementary hashtag for non-Latino whites is #SombrerosIntheCloset.

Latino student activists at Cornell University freaked out when football team’s offensive coordinator, Roy Istvan, tweeted photos of two football players wearing a sombrero – and the school’s official Twitter account retweeted it, The Tab reports:

Posting on the MECha [de Cornell] group, Silvia Treviño and Matthew Indimine expressed disgust at the university for not acting on the incident, and called for “cultural sensitivity training” for the staff involved. …

[Treviño said:] “Will you pass a proposition to recommend a faculty/staff diversity and cultural sensitivity training? Or will you just push it under the rug as you did the Cinco de Octubre event? I expect a response to this from the Minority Liaison.”

Ithaca students demand diversity forums, then fail to attend

Ithaca students demand diversity forums, then fail to attend:
"Ithaca College launched a weekly diversity discussion circle in response to last fall’s student demands, but not a single student has attended either of the first two sessions.
Last December, Ithaca students organized a mass walk-out in protest of their president’s involvement with Tompkins Financial Corporation, saying his split leadership roles were compromising his ability to address student concerns.
...One protester at the time even told his school newspaper that “we need the dialogue,” noting that the school is in a situation “where instead of just demanding a person’s resignation, we need to hear both sides and figure out a solution.”
Consequently, the school immediately began organizing a weekly discussion forum called “Diversity and Inclusion Circles” for students to voice their concerns and address last fall’s demands.
Thus far, however, The Ithacan reports that not a single student has attended either of the first two meetings..."

Liberals Want To Ban The Most Iconic 9/11 Picture From Museum

Liberals Want To Ban The Most Iconic 9/11 Picture From Museum:

"September 11th was a tragic day for our country, but it was also a monumental day. It devastated Americans, but also brought us closer together, and served as a reminder of what is really important. Now, it turns out that one museum is trying to erase the event together by banning one of the most iconic pictures the day."

Italy Proposes Law To Make Mocking People Online Illegal

Italy Proposes Law To Make Mocking People Online Illegal | Techdirt:

"...Over in Italy, some officials have proposed what may be one of the dumbest such laws in history, written so broadly that it will outlaw a lot more than the kind of "cyberbullying" it's supposedly intended to combat:

Under the proposed law, the "site manager" of Italian media, including bloggers, newspapers and social networks would be obliged to censor "mockery" based on "the personal and social condition" of the victim -- that is, anything the recipient felt was personally insulting. The penalty for failing to take action is a fine of €100,000. Truthfulness is not a defense in suits under this law -- the standard is personal insult, not falsehood.

Yes, mockery on the internet could get you a €100,000 fine. Mockery. The internet. 
The internet is made for mockery. 
And now is the time that everyone should be mocking this idiotic law -- and the politicians who proposed it without having the slightest idea of how such a thing would be abused all the time. 
As Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing notes:

... what it will do is create a tool for easy censorship without due process or penalty for misuse. The standard proposed in the bill is merely that the person on the receiving end of the argument feel aggrieved..."

The Gun Control Chart Liberals Are Desperately Trying to Hide

The Gun Control Chart Liberals Are Desperately Trying to Hide | The Federalist Papers:
"...It seems that after each national tragedy, the hand-wringers on the left sift through every grain of liberty they can get their hands on, looking for ways to regulate away every natural disaster, bad business decision, and murderous psycho.
Their solution is always more government, more control.
As short-sighted as the call for more gun control is, the call for better background checks and more mental health regulations isn’t much better.
Neither addresses the real problem: freedom.
We can talk about a culture in decline, about the wane of traditional morality, or about the effect of a press that glorifies monsters and ignores heroes, but our political calculus as a society must continue to account for the fact that, as Jeb so neatly summarized it, “stuff happens.”
The reason people ask politicians to respond to tragedies is that they want to know what government should do about them, and conservatives need to stop hiding from the fact that we believe there are problems in this world that government cannot and should not solve.
Acknowledge it. Embrace it. Defend it."

Lunch video-----Does Ann Coulter Still Support Donald Trump for President?

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IRS boss Koskinen takes heat at impeachment hearing for faulty testimony | Fox News

IRS boss Koskinen takes heat at impeachment hearing for faulty testimony | Fox News:

"IRS Commissioner John Koskinen faced tough questioning Wednesday from Republicans at his Capitol Hill impeachment hearing, where he admitted “failings” in responding to congressional probes into his agency’s targeting of conservative groups – but seemed unable to satisfy some lawmakers’ concerns about 2014 testimony that later turned out to be false."

Beaton: Potheads in paradise | AspenTimes.com

Beaton: Potheads in paradise | AspenTimes.com:
"...Yes, pot is now legal in Colorado.
Even here in Aspen we’re infested with nearly a dozen seedy pot stores.
I’ve wondered, is getting high on pot better than getting high on mountains?
To answer that question, I recently slipped into a Colorado pot shop.
I imagined I was cool.
All hell broke loose.
I thought maybe I’d walked in on a robbery.
But no, it was just reefer madness.
Everyone was shouting.
Toothless customers with long beards and smelly T-shirts scurried about the apocalyptic scene. 
Many wore baseball caps backward in that manner that somehow reduces the wearer’s IQ. 
...In the inner room was more shouting.
Glass display cases were filled with pot candy, pot cookies, pot brownies, pot gummy bears and pot paraphernalia.
On the other side of a glass case was another brown-toothed shouter, also wearing a dirty T-shirt, beard and IQ-reducer.
I realized that this get-up was their uniform of nonconformity.
“What can I get ya?”
“Pot. On which to smoke.”
The mere anticipation had already impaired my synapses, it seemed, or at least my syntax.
“Well, do ya want something to relax ya, so ya just, like, tune out? 
Or do ya want something to give ya a buzz, so ya can, like, work?” 
His hands made air quotes when he shouted “work.”
I’ve always preferred relaxing over working, so I choose the first type. The dealer suggested something he called “Ogre Kush.”
He shouted, “How much ya want?”
I shouted back so that I wouldn’t look like an amateur, “One gram!”
For an instant, the place fell silent as several customers glanced and smirked.
A nanosecond later, the cacophony resumed.
...As expected, pot consumption is up since it was legalized in Colorado, along with pot-related automobile accidents and emergency room treatment for toddlers who’ve ingested pot.
(Toddlers usually won’t drink alcohol because it tastes bad to them, but pot candy, pot cookies and pot brownies taste normal.)
Much of the consumption is by heavy users who get very high several times a week.
One in three pot users gets high daily.
Stoners tend to be uneducated and poor.
Maybe it’s their habit that impoverishes them.
At $32 a gram, the 454 grams in a pound would cost $14,498. 
It’s almost the price of gold.
Pot legalizers have evidently decided to help the poor by taking away what little money they have and then sedating them.
And lobotomizing them. 
A recent study by Northwestern University and Harvard Medical School found that even moderate use of pot is correlated with brain abnormalities..."