Friday, January 13, 2012
News First Slice 1/13/12: Jobs jobs jobs
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:43 AM
1. Super-secret-project-that-will-bring-billions-and-billions-of-jobs-to-Georgia is in the works, says Gov. Nathan Deal. Maybe a Koosh ball factory, hmmmmm?
2. Saddened by the fact that the King Center is somewhat, well, underwhelming? Martin Luther King III says he's been preparing a $100 million "investment package" to renovate and re-imagine (sub. req'd.) the tribute to and final resting place of the civil rights icon.
3. Two Cobb County Democrats think undocumented immigrants should be able to pay in-state tuition to attend the Georgia's public colleges and universities. Prepare for the hate mail.
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Wow the MDJ readership sure is a bunch of scary folks. You can get instate residency rates after a year or two of residency, so its logical to treat people who have resided in Georgia for much of their life as residents. And they do pay taxes and contribute. Here is another study about how Georgia's change in policies towards undocumented immigrants is costing us money: http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-fact…
Bottom line Capitalism works when we bring in more working age folks to support the kids and retired. Fact is with our ageing population we need immigrants. They can't come here legally because we refuse to reform immigration and raise the quota numbers to that amount which is needed.
But whether with papers or without they aren't taking jobs they are creating jobs.
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