I don't think it's a precise science...Can you provide a few examples of demand for goods or services going through the roof due to massive immigration?WHAT! After reading you post George I'm really thinking that the education level in the U.S. has fallen, very heavily in the areas of business and politics.
I agree with you about NAFTA but I don't like NAFTA for different reasons. My dislike of NAFTA is due to it's an open door for U.S. businesses to outsource jobs to foreign countries and send the manufactured products back to the U.S. without import taxes and tariffs. The outsourcing of jobs means less money in the pockets of U.S. citizens and less job opportunities.
As for rises in prices, no, rises in prices is not due to privatization. Rises in prices are due to demand and greedy businessmen jacking up prices to increase their profit margins and stuff money into their own pockets when demand is through the roof due to massive immigration. When demand goes up corporations can charge whatever they please. Public utility costs are up due to demand and the enviromentalists not letting new resources be built to meet the demand the illegals are putting on the U.S. economy.
Please George, don't lay that communist government can run things better and bring down prices. The communism you are hinting at just doesn't get it.
The problem in the U.S. is democrats let in to many illegals and legal immigrants to profit off of and now there's millions upon millions of them here in the U.S. driving up demand and getting consumer loans on homes and cars.
When demand goes up over supply prices sky rocket. When prices sky rocket people stop spending money and the economy collaspes. Communism won't correct this, communism will just keep people broke because the government will take all the money.
"Consumer Demand
"Reverse migration of illegal immigrants from the US back to Mexico has reduced the overall population of the US.
"Economic activity produced by illegal immigrant spending employs about 5% of the total US workforce. Illegal immigrants occupy over 3 million dwellings, or just under 4% of the total number of homes in the US.
How are these stats known, if these people are illegal, and thus the government is not suppose to actually condone or know where exactly these people are or what exactly they are doing here, ummmmm because they are illegal ????? "
UCLA research indicates immigrants produce $150 billion of economic activity equivalent to spending stimulus every year."
Again how are these stats known, if illegal means illegal, and these people are supposed to be in hiding and working under the table while here ????? It actually is astonishing that our government has known about this, and has condoned this for the rich/corporations/employers for political favor and kick backs, that has since had a long term negative affect in ultimately undermining American labor here, so what is the government doing in all of this now ? Is it simply covering it's tracks by getting on or keeping on the compassionate side of the minorities, including this also into their issues so it can be protected in status of by the government seemingly caring for the poor, when we know it is all for the rich, who will hide now behind it all in these ways?
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greedy businessmen have played a big role in privatization, as Californians discovered the hard way:
"Drought, delays in approval of new power plants,[4] and market manipulation decreased supply. This caused 800% increase in wholesale prices from April 2000 to December 2000.[5]"
California electricity crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Finally, any adverse economic effects from illegal immigration on the US economy are dwarfed by the trillion$ of dollar$ that have been looted from the middle class and redistributed into the off-shore bank accounts of FIRE sector parasites like Mitt Romney and their political enablers like Obama or Bush or Clinton.
Please answer the above questions highlighted in red for me...Thanks
"This report provides estimates of the size of the unauthorized immigrant population residing in the United States as of January 2010 by period of entry, region and country of origin, state of residence, age, and gender.
"The estimates were obtained using the 'residual' methodology employed for estimates of the unauthorized population in 2009 (see Hoefer, Rytina, and Baker, 2010).
"The unauthorized resident population is the remainder or 'residual' after estimates of the legally resident foreign-born population—legal permanent residents (LPRs), naturalized citizens, asylees, refugees, and nonimmigrants—are subtracted from estimates of the total foreign-born population.
"Data to estimate the legally resident population were obtained primarily from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) while the American Community Survey (ACS) of the U.S. Census Bureau was the source for estimates of the total foreign-born population."
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ill_pe_2010.pdf