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Under Bush, I remember, they were even revising down the quarterlies months later.

If you want more first-world migrants then the US will have to be more competitive for quality of life stats (whatever measures you use). People from areas with five weeks of annual vacation per year are not likely to want to immigrate for work at lower pay and less vacation.

Marijuana's for kids. You may not like the message, but that's the message that's being sent. Look at the migration rates for various countries -- Canada gets almost double the migrants that the US does for its size...

There isn't huge Norwegian, Canadian and Swedish immigration. The US: provably better than the third world.

10,000 years? False. Here's some meat found in an old fish: http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Oldest-Meat-46934.shtml

Mexicans are dying to come and live in the US, but then they're also exiting the other way. I don't see Canadians flocking to illegally immigrate to the US. So perhaps the US is somewhere in between, figuratively and literally.

That's because the APS is physicists.

Well that's a reply with content, and it's as good to see here as it is surprising. However true it may be due to technological advances, not all productivity gains can be seen are from technology (see number of hours worked.) So, presumably, those extra hours should have been compensated in...

Or maybe someone here can, but I'm not going to hold my breath since the best thing about the "Politics and Religion" forum is that it keeps many off the regular threads, in their own corner.

Every single thing you wrote was wrong. Here's some starter reading: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/howgood-gc.html

How many of us file our taxes as a percent of GDP? None. Why people bite at these nonsense statistics I'll never understand.

The only way you would think it's insulting is if you feel you are an inadequate trader. But anyway, that's two ad-hom posts, two "love it or leave it!'''s and one "them foreigners all want to come here" and one "You're a hypocrite!"

That's two ad-hom posts, two "love it or leave it!'''s and one "them foreigners all want to come here." Still no discussion of the stats, whether they're reasonable, correct, or would have a net negative or positive overall on society and/or productivity. (Consider that list a list of...

I'm fishing for intelligence. I think the water's polluted.

So that's one ad-hom post, two "love it or leave it!'''s and one "them foreigners all want to come here." Remember, folks, these are the people on the other side of your trades.

So rather than an intelligent discussion of the statistics, right or wrong, overly fair or unfair, we have two "love it or leave it!'''s and one "them foreigners all want to come here."

I found the following statistics interesting. * The U.S. is the ONLY country in the Americas without a national paid parental leave benefit. The average is over 12 weeks of paid leave anywhere other than Europe and over 20 weeks in Europe. * Zero industrialized nations are...

Nope, you excluded 25 million people from your average. In a single country. I brought up three countries right off the top. I can bring up more, if you like. Explain to us exactly how you reached this calculation of an average. Did you go by population count, and the homicide rate in...

No, you're not. You're discussing averages of people, then excluding 24.5 million of them because they're inconvenient, then you're discussing averages again, then you're disregarding another country, then you're back to discussing averages... And that's why your argument failed. Would you...

So there you go, ladies and gentlemen, it's always true except when it isn't.