Perhaps a way to increase support for English First in places like Green Hills

Egads!

The median price of a single family home rose from $30,600 in 1940 to nearly $120,000 in 2000 (in 2000 - inflation adjusted - dollars).

O.K. we worry more in a recession but we can still strive to be happy

Nurture your relationships, be charitable, and be grateful

Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor of psychology at the University of California–Riverside and author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want, suggests cultivating a sense of appreciation through something like a gratitude journal, where you write down three to five things for which you are thankful.

Like it Centurion, like it, like it

This is worth proposing just to observe how support and resistence breaks along party and other demogrpahic lines. I like the idea, always have. On what basis does one object? (via Marginal Revolution)

“All you need to do is grant visas to two million Indians, Chinese and Koreans,” said Shekhar Gupta, editor of The Indian Express newspaper. “We will buy up all the subprime homes. We will work 18 hours a day to pay for them. We will immediately improve your savings rate — no Indian bank today has more than 2 percent nonperforming loans because not paying your mortgage is considered shameful here. And we will start new companies to create our own jobs and jobs for more Americans.”

Would an increase of doctors and other professionals change the demographic mix with respect to who would support English First type policies?