Thread: Math

Math

Last week I purchased a burger for $2.58. The counter girl took my $3 and I was digging for my change when I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while looking at the screen on her register.

I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me two quarters, but she hailed the manager for help. While he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried.

Why do I tell you this? Please read more about the "history of teaching math":

Teaching Math In 1950
************************ A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?

Teaching Math In 1960
************************ A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?

Teaching Math In 1970
************************ A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?

Teaching Math In 1980
*********************** A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

Teaching Math In 1990
************************ By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees. (There are no wrong answers.)

Teaching Math In 2005
*********El hachero vende un camion carga por $100. La cuesta de production es.............


And we wonder why jobs requiring intelligence are being outsourced??

Last week I purchased a burger for $2.58. The counter girl took my $3 and I was digging for my change when I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while looking at the screen on her register.

I KNOW!!! This happens to us and we were BLOWN AWAY!! It's outrageous

Great post, Husker. This is why GWB wants to import 50,000 nurses.
The educational costs for illegal aliens in American schools is estimated at 7.4 billion dollars. I believe we could educate a lot of Americans in math and science with that money, and have enough nurses, so that we don't have to "import" them.

Originally Posted by LegalUSCitizen

Great post, Husker. This is why GWB wants to import 50,000 nurses.
The educational costs for illegal aliens in American schools is estimated at 7.4 billion dollars. I believe we could educate a lot of Americans in math and science with that money, and have enough nurses, so that we don't have to "import" them.

How much money in total do we lose per year because of illegal immigrants?

Originally Posted by ChrisF202

Originally Posted by LegalUSCitizen

Great post, Husker. This is why GWB wants to import 50,000 nurses.
The educational costs for illegal aliens in American schools is estimated at 7.4 billion dollars. I believe we could educate a lot of Americans in math and science with that money, and have enough nurses, so that we don't have to "import" them.

How much money in total do we lose per year because of illegal immigrants?

Tough to get a "real" answer. All groups have to give EXTREMEMELY conservative answers. The answers will be from 60-100B a year. Triple that, and I am sure the range is MUCH closer to actual.

For almost ALL reports you get on illegals, the rule of thumb is triple.

However, here in NE, it is MUCH worse. We are getting crap stated like 15k illegals, when the REAL number is probably closer to 150-200k.

As for costs (your original question), getting statistics is like pulling teeth. NO ONE wants to keep track, or ask ANY questions. However, with the new payments from the feds to hospitals, some stats may slowly creep into the picture. Right now, getting accutate stats is impossible for most agencies. Surprisingly, the BEST stats come from jails/prisons. Prison pop here in NE (we have no federal pens) is 1200 inmates, with 382 being illegal aliens, with average cost per inmate at 27500 (the illegals might be a higher number, since they get interpreters). Thus, in NE for this SINGLE issue, is over 10M per year. For the schools, in Omaha alone, the number of ESL students is 48000. Assuming that 75% are illegals (a guess, but probably not far off), we have 36k being schooled (K-12). At about 6000 per (probably much higher again for illegals due to added translation costs), we have a cost of 200+ million a year. I would assume medical costs being close to the cost of education (if not more). Costs like this add up pretty damn quickly. When you see how small NE is, and that it probably costs us 1B a year, you can see how 300B a year is NOT an outrageous cost. However, you would NEVER hear that number thrown out by the MSM.

H.

Yeah, ive heard as many as 600,000 illegals in Southern New York alone. Its chaos.