Thread: Another Stupid Study Revealed

Another Stupid Study Revealed

An article in Monday’s Washington Post
( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00993.html )
contains one of the lamest justifications for illegal immigration in the entire history of mankind, and despite its absurdity, I feel compelled to discuss it here because it is an apt demonstration of the sort of thinking evidently favored by the socialist media and liberal democrats across the nation.

Immigration economist, Saul Lach recently conducted his research study on the theory that immigration acts as a break on the rate of inflation and the results of his study have been published in the Journal of Political Economy. Please, bear in mind that the results of countless studies are published every week in a variety of journals around the nation. Some are worthwhile, many are not. The simple act of getting something published is not an indication of credibility. With that being said, Lach concluded from his research that illegal aliens act as a braking mechanism on this nation’s rate of inflation because they are poor and can’t afford to pay the inflated prices that American citizens pay for consumer goods so retailers, in areas where there is an overabundance of illegal aliens, do not jack their prices up as much as retailers in more affluent areas.

Essentially this seems to make good sense on some level. A grocery store owner in an American neighborhood with relatively few illegal aliens can charge $1.98 for an avocado and, chances are, he will be able to sell them while collecting a tidy $1.48 profit for every one sold because the people who frequent the store rarely look at the price of what they drop in their basket, and even if they did notice the price, the guacamole they wanted to make for the Super Bowl party just wouldn’t taste the same if they made it with Anderson’s split pea soup instead of avocados, and they don’t have the time to drive to the nearest barrio to do their shopping so they figure the hell with it, and spend the money. However, according to Saul Lach, a grocery store owner in an American neighborhood with inordinately high number of illegal aliens understands that if he tries to sell his avocados for $1.98 apiece, then he is going to be stuck with a large number of rotting avocados because the illegal aliens are dirt poor and can’t afford to pay such an outrageous price. Furthermore, the barrio grocery store owner is understandably aware that if he sells his avocados for $.75 cents each he will be able to sell them and still make a profit of $.25 cents for each one sold. Saul Lach’s inflation rate braking mechanism comes into play because the barrio store owner’s avocado prices which are lower than the prices in the better neighborhoods, reduce the average cost of avocados in the overall area and thereby reduce the avocado inflation rate. In other words, if grocery store owner “Aâ€

Idiot!!


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Ditto!

Dixie