Just about right. Some years more, some less.
Check out Figure 1 (about half-way down the page).
Yeah, DeLay is an idiot. I read that review, too. It was pretty funny.
So, is DeLay’s point that only lower income people have abortions? Are there any stats on that?
I thought the usual complaint of people of his ilk was that the “welfare mothers” were out there having kids as fast as they could .
Shit, that’s a lot.
Learn a new thing and all.
If anything, a larger population is going drive illegal immigration even higher. More people need more of all the the things illegal immigrants come here to do. Just having more US citizens isn’t going to make any of those citizens want to do the crappy jobs* that illegal immigrants do.
*broad brush, I know, but I think most people here get the point.
I submit that his ilk don’t like women, period.
(Frick! In response to jk1245.)
Oh, they like women…when they’re good little submissive idiots who “know their place.”
My personal theory is that the wealthier you are, the fewer kids you end up having. Ranting about a low birth rate, is complaining about the symptom without mentioning the cause. We’re having fewer kids because we’re better off.
DeLay needs to propose ways to siphon away personal wealth above a certain level. Then we’ll automatically have more kids and they’ll be more willing to do lower paying labor. Do you think he could get behind that?
I guess it’s too late to buy one for his mother. It is, isn’t it?
You are making the assumption that the DeLayster was of woman born.
I was about bring that up as well. Sure we’d need immigrants, to work as prison guards.
Only fitting, since they helped build the walls.
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Please ,that unemployment rate is a crock. I watched a German news show the other day and the economist was talking about 9 million unemployed. He said ,if we counted like America it would be 3 million.
Los Angeles did a study lately and they found in a city that is doing well . that the rate was 50 % more than reported.
I think part of the point is that a lot of people who have abortions are those ill-equipped to raise children. Ineffective parents lead to degenerate children who grow up with reduced prospects, thus sufficiently supplying an underclass to take those jobs. Without that underclass, we have both a reduction in crime and a lot of jobs for migrant workers.
Personally I don’t understand why people are so against Mexican migrant workers. I think they’re awesome. One particularly industrious family comes in and cleans up our house far better than I do, and in much less time. I admire them, they put together a good business, do very good work and are making a decent living at it. We use them when we throw big parties too. They can get an 8000 square foot loft done in an hour and a half with just a couple of people.
I like migrant workers, I guess because I am lazy, decadent and bourgeois or whatever, but I like the idea of people coming here to send money back to their family in Mexico. I like to think it’s benefitting the Mexican economy so that possibly one day we can have a relationship with Mexico like we enjoy with Canada.
I put a fair amount of work into that post. Offer a cite to back either of your assertions or shut the fuck up. Dickhead.
So you’re saying he divided himself like an amoeba? I’ll buy that.
Your unemployment statistics are rigged.
I very carefully used the “Persons who currently want a job” (5.288M) number not the “Unemployed” number (7,295M).
This cite seems to think that discouraged workers certainly aren’t willing to do the jobs that immigrants currently do since “the marginal effort cost of going on even one interview a week is greater than the benefit from the search”.
So, why does not counting people who aren’t looking for work rig the statistics?
I consider the 4 week cut off artificailly narrow.
I do not consider someone out of the job force just because they haven’t look for work for a mere 4 weeks.
The ‘they do jobs we don’t want to do’ is a tired and sad argument, and stretching a counter-argument as far as he did is beyond ridiculous. What’s worse is that this is not the first time I’ve heard it. Plus, legal US citizens do loads of jobs they don’t want to do.
Artificially as opposed to what? The “natural” cutoff of 36 days, 15 hours and 27 minutes? It’s a statistical measure. As long as it is applied consistently who cares what the cutoff is?
But do you consider them to be looking for a job?
Look, the numbers are as of a given point in time. It’s not like they brand “DISCOURAGED WORKER” on your forehead and keep you there for life. If you haven’t looked for work since May, then you are now considered out of the labor force. When you start looking again, you’ll move back in to the “Persons who currently want a job” category. Why is that misleading? Should we count retirees too?
But you and gonzo say the number is underreported. Fine. Even if we use gonzomax’s unsupported assertion that it’s 50% off:
Unemployed = 10.9425M (7.295M * 150%)
Looking for work = 7.932M (5.288M * 150%)
Undocumented Immigrants = 10.5M
Unemployment Rate = 6.9% (4.6% * 150%)
Employed UIs = 9.7755M (10.5M - .7245M (10.5M * 6.9%))
Shortfall of documented workers needed to do all currently available jobs (assuming perfect 100% employment including forced relocation and forced vocation):
1.8435 million