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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (337224)5/11/2007 11:51:24 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1575189
 
Do you have any data that adjusts for new immigrants (who even if "severely poor" may be wealthier then they where before immigrating)?

No, but I don't know why that's relevant. Why should it matter how poor someone was in Ethiopia before they emigrated to here?

Because the poorest here could become more wealthy, while a new group of poor move in from Ethiopia, or more likely Mexico.

Year 1 -

Jane makes a million a year, Bob makes 100k, Sam makes 50K, and Sally makes 25 K, and Jose in Mexico makes 5K

Year 10 (adjusted for inflation)

Jane makes 2 million, Bob makes 150K, Sam makes 70K, Sally makes 30K, and Jose makes 15K in the US.

Each individual is better off. But liberals can look at the situation and say that the poor are worse off, because in year 1 Sally was "the poor" and Jose didn't count. Now in year 10 Jose is in the US and counts, and is poorer than Sally was in year 1.
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