Posted on 04/12/2022 10:32:28 AM PDT by blam
A Washington Post columnist suggested Monday that the magic solution to rampant inflation and supply chain impediments would be to allow more illegal immigrants into the country.
Catherine Rampell wrote a piece titled that “Democrats are missing the bigger immigration issue,” noting that “Democrats are terrified that a coming border surge might tank their midterm chances.”
She then went on to suggest that problems will occur not with “too many immigrants” but rather “too few.”
Rampell claims, without any evidence or authority, that inflation will start to recede if there are more migrants “who can fill critical labor-market shortages.”
She writes, “The United States is experiencing inflationary levels not seen in four decades. Americans are unhappy, and they are more than five times as likely to cite “inflation,” “cost of living” or the economy in general than immigration as the nation’s biggest problem. These economic concerns are, however, rooted at least partly in immigration policy.”
Rampell continues, “there remains huge demand among foreign-born workers to contribute to the U.S. economy,” adding “the many businesses that rely on these workers are losing critical staff, making inflation worse.”
She concludes that more immigration will only benefit Americans financially “and, by extension, Democrats’ political fortunes.”
Of course, the notion that supply chain problems are solely to blame for inflation is moronic.
As Harvard economist and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has repeatedly pointed out, inflation is a direct cause of the Federal Reserve being “behind the curve” on interest rates and the Biden Administration’s massive increase in spending, including the $1.9-trillion covid-relief legislation.
As we noted yesterday, Biden intends to scrap the Title 42 public health authority, which border officials have estimated will increase the number of immigrants traveling to the border three fold to 18,000 per day.
Appearing on CBS News, former DHS head Jeh Johnson warned that “Numbers at these levels are difficult to handle on the southern border,” adding “Communities on the southern border, catholic charities, the volunteers, difficult to absorb these types of numbers under almost any scenario.”
Arizona GOP Rep. Andy Biggs warned that numbers will be even higher than estimated, suggesting that 20,000 to 30,000 could surge the border every day if Title 42 is scrapped.
“I think this is a political ploy, it’s meant to happen. They campaigned on an open border,” Biggs stated, warning “If you think it’s bad now, the tsunami that’s coming is going to be overwhelming.”
But NOT most pf the ones flooding in now.
We need immigrants with skills and education that view the USA as the land of opportunity, NOT the land of the handout.
As an example, the best antenna and coax cable analyzers in the world are designed and made in Kiev, Ukraine.
We need people who can do stuff like that.
The social security Ponzi scheme will implode without good immigrants.
It will implode sooner with the wrong immigrants.
More immigrants = more consumers = more demand = more inflation.
These invaders need to be repelled at the border with violent and deadly force. That will stop the invasion very quickly and fewer people will die, be raped or be abused once this is done. All illegals in America need to be deported and never allowed to return. All immigration of any kind needs to stop until we get America back on its feet.
It really is that simple.
ROFL. Classic.
Just another Mass Illegal Immigrationist trying to drown the Americans in a sea of aliens.
Has nothing to do with any economic theory, just one group of people who have made it their mission to jack hammer open the borders of the formerly United States and allow Invasion and Takeover. She and her co-ethnics just think they will be able to be the puppet masters of this polyglot dystopia; the original settlers were a bit harder to do that to.
Or at least get cheap landscaping for their Miami Beach mansions.
Remember: “Never let a crisis go to waste”.
“We need immigrants with skills and education that view the USA as the land of opportunity, NOT the land of the handout.”
So, people like my dentist.
He got his education and training back home in Brazil then spent three years working in a dental office in Sao Paulo while waiting for his paperwork to wend it’s way through the system.
Once approved he then paid from his own pocket to repeat his last year of dental school, something required by US law to get his certification as a dentist.
He now has his own growing practice with three Norte Americanos on his payroll.
PS...BEST dentist I’ve had in my life.
These people who think this way are truly stupid. I mean brain-dead full-on stupid.
the large multi-national bank I work for is seeing a huge wave of 60+ people retiring this May. Never seen it this big.
Why are they retiring? Too much work. No work/life balance. Paychecks got bigger last year and we all received huge hikes and bonuses -- but you know what? The bullsh*t of working isn't worth it anymore. There's no "reward" just more work, more stress, and more of us dying premature deaths due to stress.
I'm not 60 yet and I've got about two weeks to figure out if at 59 1/2 I'm gonna pull the plug and just say the hell with it.
Let 'em fill these high paying I.T. gigs with the criminals illegally crossing the border, the know-nothing low-paid India IT workers who know NOTHING about our business or just let the bank die.
I'm just about at the point I don't GAF anymore. Don't need the job, don't need the money, don't need the stress and damn' sure don't need another heart attack.
You left out the "more handouts paid for by government printed money" in your equation. Just sayin' ...
These journos, democrats, liberals etc are either stupid or evil.
I’m going with the second choice.
5.56mm
Stupid is very very powerful!
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich Schiller
Catherine Rampell. She’s very proud of her “Phi Beta Kappa” at Princeton, but is very secretive about what her major was. I’m betting it was not economics.
In other words drive down wages.
Yes... Illegal immigrants. On welfare. That have never contributed a peso to the US tax base. Eating food. Using medical resources. Using education resources. Using up housing. Yeah. That’s the answer. Just keep bringing in more people
Yes, there are a lot of other variables you could add in, but I wanted to keep the equation simple and streamlined.
More government spending just means more money printed and therefore more inflation as well.
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