At the beginning of the class we were given 15 minutes to work on our immigration project.
Immigration and the Economy
- It could also help the economy by helping with the trade because it would give people more jobs there for leading to an overall good economy
- Fixing the immigration system will help with tourism because it will allow more people to come into the country and spread the word about all the great things that our country provides
- According to studies done immigrants are 30% more likely to start their own business and 18% of the businesses in the United States are run by immigrants
- With these immigrants starting businesses its opening up jobs for others which also helps the economy
- Immigrants are our engineers, scientists, and innovators which means there are a lot of smart people coming into our country and helping make money for the economy
- Immigrants also boost the demand for consumer needs which makes more money once again for the country
Following the 15 minutes we went over the current events. The first one we went over was the mall raid in Kenya. We talked about how the whole situation died down and how it ended. Five of the gunmen were killed during the fighting eleven more are in custody. Following we talked about how government is going to "shut down" metaphorically speaking. They will shut down only if they can not figure out how to pay for the countries bills. It would effect our life's in ways such as we will not be able to do much tourism. Really the only thing that is good about this is that the military will still work. During this whole shut down there will still be taxes. Gun permits will not be given during this time and you will not be able to get a loan for anything. This is also in some kind of way an embarrassing thing for the most powerful and strongest country in the world to do. We also discussed how much Obama has raised the defect almost by 7 trillion dollars. Next we watched a video about how the government keeps raising the debt ceiling and how the government keeps spending more money then it has.
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