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Tidbits
Political Quotations
To Accompany the March 28, 2018 edition of Tidbits
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2018/tidbits032818.htm
Bob Jensen at
Trinity University
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ubl
In September 2017 the USA National Debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time
---
http://www.statedatalab.org/news/detail/national-debt-surpasses-20-trillion-for-the-first-time-in-us-history
How Your Federal Tax Dollars are Spent ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4eab53ef01b7c8ee6392970b-popup
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the booked
obligation of $20+ trillion) ---
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2016/05/25/spring-2016-to-whom-does-the-us-government-owe-money-n2168161?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
The US Debt Clock in Real Time ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Remember the Jane Fonda Movie called "Rollover" ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_(film)
One worry is that nations holding trillions of dollars invested in USA debt are
dependent upon sales of oil and gas to sustain those investments.
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the
unbooked obligation of $100 trillion and unknown more in contracted
entitlements) ---
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/15/news/economy/entitlement-benefits/
The biggest worry of the entitlements obligations is enormous obligation for the
future under the Medicare and Medicaid programs that are now deemed totally
unsustainable ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
How Americans Get Health Insurance ---
http://ritholtz.com/2017/08/americans-get-health-insurance/
Sometimes the grass is greener on
the other side because it's been fertilized with more bullshit.
Anonomous
The worst form of inequality is to try to make
unequal things equal.
Aristotle
How many times have we heard ‘free
tuition,’ ‘free health care,’ and free you-name-it? If a particular good or
service is truly free, we can have as much of it as we want without the
sacrifice of other goods or services. Take a ‘free’ library; is it really free?
The answer is no. Had the library not been built, that $50 million could have
purchased something else. That something else sacrificed is the cost of the
library. While users of the library might pay a zero price, zero price and free
are not one and the same. So when politicians talk about providing something
free, ask them to identify the beneficent Santa Claus or tooth fairy.
Walter Williams
Every great cause begins as a movement,
becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
Eric Hoffer.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal
sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of
miseries.
Winston Churchill
Shoot for the space in between,
because that's where the real mystery lies.
Vera Rubin
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/12/28/remebering-vera-rubin/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=f053a9c4e2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-f053a9c4e2-234390133
Only those who
will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
There
is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters.
Margaret Wheatley
Even conversations
that are not politically correct.
That government is best which governs the least,
because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson
Why, we grow rusty and you
catch us at the very point of decadence --- by this time tomorrow we may have
forgotten everything we ever knew. That's a thought isn't it? We'd be back to
where we started --- improvising.
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Act I)
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth,
Historic Home Run Hitter
What's sad is to witness what Syria has become because nobody will give up.
And "because they're
nonstate actors, it's hard for us to get the satisfaction of [Gen.] MacArthur
and the [Japanese] Emperor [Hirohito] meeting and the war officially being
over," Obama observed, referencing the end of World War II.
We must be willing to get rid of the
life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
If everyone is thinking alike, then
somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton
And many writers have imagined for themselves
republics and principalities that have never been seen or known to exist in
reality; for there is such a gap between how one lives and how one ought to live
that anyone who abandons what is done for what ought to be done learns his ruin
rather than his preservation: for a man who wishes to profess goodness at all
times will come to ruin among so many who are not good.
Niccolo Machiavelli
If you don't know where you're going, you might
not get there.
Yogi
Berra
Happiness is like a butterfly: the
more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to
other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
Henry David
Thoreau
You can get a lot farther with a smile and a
gun than you can with just a smile.
Al Capone
Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you
will go far.
Teddy Roosevelt
Fake Einstein: You probably know a quote
from him. He probably never said it ---
https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-we-love-to-quote-and-misquote-albert-einstein?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=22a6fcdab2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-22a6fcdab2-68951505
Also see
https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-we-love-to-quote-and-misquote-albert-einstein
The US's national debt spiked $1 trillion (to
over $20 trillion) in less than 6 months ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-national-debt-spiked-1-trillion-in-less-than-6-months-2018-2
|USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/
USA unbooked entitlements commitments are now over $100 trillion
The 20 Worst Quotes From Louis Farrakhan, Liberal
America's Favorite Racist ---
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2018/03/24/the-20-worst-quotes-from-louis-farrakhan-liberal-americas-favorite-racist-n2463869?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Vox: We'll Have to Confiscate Guns To
Reach 'European Levels Of Violence' ---
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/03/14/vox-well-have-to-confiscate-guns-to-reach-european-levels-of-violence-n2460864?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Think of those "no go" Islamic gang zones in Sweden, German, Belgium, and the UK
where the police are afraid to set foot.
Rubio Wants Higher Ed Act to Take on Confucius
Institutes ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/03/15/rubio-wants-higher-ed-act-take-confucius-institutes?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=f0cdb01820-DNU20180111&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-f0cdb01820-197565045&mc_cid=f0cdb01820&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Vox: Stop blaming mental illness for
mass shootings ---
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/9/16618472/mental-illness-gun-homicide-mass-shootings
Vox: The real problem with the New York
Times op-ed page: it’s not honest about US conservatism ---
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/15/17113176/new-york-times-opinion-page-conservatism
A staggering 44 cents out of every shopping
dollar spent online is spent at Amazon ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-amazon-industry-displacement/
What will happen when unemployment dips below
4 percent? Just look at where it already has ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-15/this-is-what-record-low-unemployment-looks-like-in-america?cmpid=BBD031518_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=180315&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
Biased Media Downplays Trump Economy Success
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/frankvernuccio/2018/03/16/media-downplays-trump-economy-success-n2461600?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Phillips Curve ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve
The Death of the Phillips Curve?
Black Pastors Call on Rep. Maxine Waters to
Condemn Louis Farrakhan’s ‘Leftist Hate Speech’ ---
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/16/black-pastors-call-on-rep-maxine-waters-to-condemn-louis-farrakhans-leftist-hate-speech/
Dershowitz: Democrats have to fire Ellison
over Farrakhan lies
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/16/dershowitz-democrats-fire-ellison-farrakhan-lies/
Alan Dershowitz: Democrats Have To Fire Ellison Over Farrakhan Lies ---
The New York Times:
Transgender Volleyball Star in Brazil Eyes Olympics and
Stirs Debate
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/world/americas/brazil-transgender-volleyball-tifanny-abreu.html
Jensen Comment
It's relevant to note that Ms. Abreau had sex realignment surgery. Such surgery
adds a dimension to the debate over whether transgender competitors with penises
should be allowed to compete in women's athletics. The NCAA changed the rules
away from penises to tests for testosterone levels. This makes sex realignment
surgery less of a condition regarding binary competitions.
Virginia’s juvenile-detention system is
shrinking. But it still has one of the highest recidivism rates (70%) in the
country ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/juvenile-justice/
Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead for 2018 ---
https://www.statedatalab.org/news/detail/internet-sales-tax-bill-dead-for-this-year-after-filibust
The Guardian: Europe is cracking down on Silicon
Valley out of 'jealousy' ---
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/15/peter-thiel-silicon-valley-europe-regulation
Armed School Resource Officer Took Down
Maryland High School Shooter ---
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/20/armed-school-resource-officer-maryland-school-shooter-trump-teachers-guns/
Kentucky’s pension conversation has reached
height of absurdity: Worst-Funded Pension System Among 50 States
---
http://kentuckytoday.com/stories/kentuckys-pension-conversation-has-reached-height-of-absurdity,12287
PhysOrg: Extreme winter weather, such as
'Beast from the East', can be linked to solar cycle ---
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-extreme-winter-weather-beast-east.html
Former Obama Staffer: Facebook Allowed Us To
Break User Data Rules Because They Were On Our Side ---
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/03/20/former-obama-staffer-facebook-allowed-us-to-break-user-data-rules-because-they-w-n2462589?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=
Facebook harvests individual users' data and
sells it to advertisers, who narrowly target specific messages to particular
people not just for profit, but for partisan political gain ---
https://theconversation.com/facebook-is-killing-democracy-with-its-personality-profiling-data-93611
40 of History's Greatest Women ---
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/03/20/repub-40-of-historys-greatest-women/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=MARCH212018A&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter
Bob Jensen's threads on women ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Women
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is
being held in custody at the Nanterre police station in relation to an
investigation into an alleged 5 million euro cash transfer to Sarkozy and chief
of staff Claude Gueant from businessman Ziad Takieddine in 2007 ---
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/03/20/former-french-president-nicolas-sarkozy-police-custody-report/440797002/
The WaPo’s “LEAD” story going viral today
makes it seem that Donald Trump was the first—and only—president to ever
congratulate Vladimir Putin on an election victory when, in point of fact,
former president Barack Obama did the same thing, only in a much more gushing
way ---
https://canadafreepress.com/article/do-not-congratulate-vladimir-putinunless-you-happen-to-be-saint-barack
Snopes says Obama congratulated Putin on his 2012 win ---
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/president-barack-obama-congratulate-putin-2012-win/
Dershowitz: Either McCabe or Comey Is Not
Telling the Truth ---
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/28535-dershowitz-either-mccabe-or-comey-is-not-telling-the-truth
Humanities at Risk in Denmark: Plan
would link number of university spots to labor market needs ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/03/22/new-policies-create-risks-humanities-danish-universities?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=cac9bb1b6f-DNU20180111&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-cac9bb1b6f-197565045&mc_cid=cac9bb1b6f&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Trump Hits China With $50 Billion in Tariffs
---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-22/trump-orders-50-billion-hit-on-china-goods-amid-trade-war-fears?cmpid=BBD032218_BIZ
'Much ado about nothing': The ad industry is sticking with Facebook despite the Cambridge Analytica fiasco
---
But Krugman being Krugman, his intense
partisanship invariably requires him to descend into the ridiculous, only to
reveal his own “zombie ideas.” ---
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johntamny/2018/03/23/while-outing-the-gops-economic-zombies-paul-krugman-outs-himself-n2464030?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Will these global religions all meld into one? Will
they wither away? Will they splinter into thousands?
Animated Map Shows How the Five Major Religions Spread Across the World (3000 BC
– 2000 AD) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/animated-map-shows-how-the-five-major-religions-spread-across-the-world-3000-bc-2000-ad.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Russia is supporting and even supplying arms
to the Taliban, the head of US forces in Afghanistan has told the BBC ---
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43500299
YouTube wants the news audience, but not the
responsibility ---
https://www.cjr.org/innovations/youtube-wants-the-news-audience-but-not-the-responsibility.php
Iran harassed and humiliated the US Navy under
Obama — here's why it stopped under Trump ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-humiliated-us-navy-obama-stopped-under-trump-2018-3
Nine Ridiculous Things About the 2018 Omnibus
Budget Bill
http://reason.com/blog/2018/03/22/nine-ridiculous-things-about-the-omnibus
Also see
http://reason.com/blog/2018/03/22/the-new-omnibus-is-terrible-because-cong
Communism in Russian --- ..\..\Booknewtank.htm
Dissolution of the Soviet Union ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union#Dissolution
Nostalgia for the Soviet Union --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia_for_the_Soviet_Union
Putinism --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_under_Vladimir_Putin
Millions of Russians and eastern Europeans now believe that they were better
off under communism. But was it communism and why were the food shelves nearly
empty?
https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-communism-stance?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8063c93bb4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-8063c93bb4-68951505
. . .
Responsible and rational citizens need to be critical of simplistic historical narratives that rely on the pitchfork effect to demonise anyone on the Left. We should all embrace Geertz’s idea of an anti-anti-communism in hopes that critical engagement with the lessons of the 20th century might help us to find a new path that navigates between, or rises above, the many crimes of both communism and capitalism.
'Dancing Bears' Offers A Look Into How Countries Adapted To Life After
Communism ---
http://lisnews.org/dancing_bears_offers_a_look_into_how_countries_adapted_to_life_after_communism
Jensen Comment
One of the stark contrasts of so-called communism versus so-called capitalism
arise in the comparisons of post-war (WW II) prosperity of West versus East
Germany ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany
New Jersey Prepares To Raise Taxes On "Almost
Everything" As It Nears Financial Disaster (Title) ---
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3639667/posts
Jensen Comment
New Jersey overwhelmingly already has the highest tax burden among the 50 states
https://www.statedatalab.org/
N.J. Governor's Plan for Free Community College ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/03/15/nj-governors-plan-free-community-college?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=f0cdb01820-DNU20180111&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-f0cdb01820-197565045&mc_cid=f0cdb01820&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Question
Who cares about possible bankruptcy as long as a massive increase in spending is
for a good cause?
From the CFO Journal's Morning Ledger on March 15, 2018
Europe tightens screws on U.S. tech firms.
Europe is zeroing in on U.S. tech companies amid rising trans-Atlantic trade tensions. France on Wednesday petitioned to fine Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google for allegedly taking advantage of smaller French software developers. In Brussels, the European Union next week plans to unveil two legislative proposals to increase taxes on tech giants.
Jensen Comment
The EU continues to milk USA companies other than by raising tariffs.
Trump's Conflicts with the USA media are
"Stormier" than with China (at least in terms of trade wars)
From the CFO Journal's Morning Ledger on
March 26, 2018
Good morning. Company executives concerned about escalating tensions between the U.S. and China might breathe a sigh of relief, report the WSJ’s Lingling Wei and Bob Davis. The two governments have quietly started to negotiate better U.S. access to Chinese markets, potentially avoiding a trade war.
The talks come after the Trump administration last week set out specific requests that include lower Chinese tariffs on U.S. cars, higher orders for U.S. semiconductors from China and greater access to China’s financial sector for American firms.
President Trump on Thursday threatened to impose tariffs on as much as $60 billion of Chinese imports, while China on Friday rolled out penalties against $3 billion in U.S. goods as Washington’s levies on imported steel and aluminum took effect.
Business leaders over the weekend warned about additional punitive trade measures. Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook urged the U.S. to embrace open trade, while Larry Fink, chief executive of investment firm BlackRock Inc., said the U.S. and China should not fight a trade war.
Meanwhile, governments across the globe scrambled to lessen the impact of the steel and aluminum tariffs on their industries. The WSJ’s William Mauldin and Rhiannon Hole explain how some countries managed to get temporary exemptions.
Australia ranks high in terms of "accepting migrants" but there are just too
many from India
Australia’s new visa rules will hit Indians the hardest ---
https://qz.com/1237058/australia-abolishes-the-457-visa-category-hitting-indians-the-hardest/
How to Mislead With Statistics
In countries with high migrant acceptance indexes —
that is, countries where the populace is generally receptive to newcomers —
immigrants “are happier than their other circumstances would indicate
---
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/world/europe/worlds-happiest-countries.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_el_20180316&nl=at-times&nl_art=1&nlid=10527319&ref=headline&te=1
Jensen Comment
What the author (Maggie Astor) implies is that countries with high migrant
acceptance indexes are also the happiest countries. That is just not the case.
The countries that are ranked as happiest (think Finland, Norway, and Denmark)
are not leaders in migrant acceptance indexes. In fact, Finland is noted for
rerouting migrants into Sweden. Sweden is fed up with the lawless gangs of
migrants in the no-go zones where the police are afraid to enter. Now all the
Nordick countries are refusing citizenship to ever more migrants and paying them
to return to their home countries.
Least- and Most-Accepting Countries for Migrants
http://news.gallup.com/poll/216377/new-index-shows-least-accepting-countries-migrants.aspx
Least accepting of migrants |
Most accepting of migrants |
|||
Macedonia |
1.47 |
Iceland |
8.26 |
|
Montenegro |
1.63 |
New Zealand |
8.25 |
|
Hungary |
1.69 |
Rwanda |
8.16 |
|
Serbia |
1.80 |
Sierra Leone |
8.05 |
|
Slovakia |
1.83 |
Mali |
8.03 |
|
Israel |
1.87 |
Australia |
7.98 |
|
Latvia |
2.04 |
Sweden |
7.92 |
|
Czech Republic |
2.26 |
Nigeria |
7.76 |
|
Estonia |
2.37 |
Burkina Faso |
7.74 |
|
Croatia |
2.39 |
Ireland |
7.74 |
Note that the happiest nations of Finland, Norway, and Denmark are not on the
list, and Sweden is now regretting accepting so many migrants. Iceland is quite
"accepting" of the very few migrants it accepts and does not offer much in the
way of economic opportunity to migrants. Iceland historically has a high rate of
emigration (citizens leaving) especially into Canada ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iceland
It would seem that Iceland is not fond of inviting migrants from Africa, Latin
America, South America, India, and the Middle East.
Residents in Iceland by country of origin |
||
Country |
Population |
% |
302,927 |
93.02% |
|
10,224 |
3.14% |
|
1,659 |
0.51% |
|
915 |
0.28% |
|
910 |
0.28% |
|
696 |
0.21% |
|
614 |
0.19% |
|
607 |
0.19% |
|
558 |
0.17% |
|
531 |
0.16% |
|
527 |
0.16% |
|
325 |
0.10% |
|
315 |
0.10% |
|
301 |
0.09% |
|
253 |
0.08% |
|
231 |
0.07% |
|
230 |
0.07% |
|
217 |
0.07% |
|
194 |
0.06% |
|
189 |
0.06% |
|
156 |
0.05% |
|
155 |
0.05% |
|
151 |
0.05% |
|
148 |
0.05% |
|
147 |
0.05% |
|
135 |
0.04% |
|
128 |
0.04% |
|
112 |
0.03% |
|
108 |
0.03% |
|
101 |
0.03% |
|
others |
1,907 |
0.59% |
Total |
325,671 |
100.00% |
Total (excluding Icelanders) |
22,744 |
6.98% |
Stanford University: Should We Stop Licensing Doctors and Lawyers
(and accountants and barbers)?
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/should-we-stop-licensing-doctors-lawyers?utm_source=Stanford+Business&utm_campaign=19faf7fa63-Stanford-Business-Issue-133-3-18-2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b5214e34b-19faf7fa63-70265733&ct=t(Stanford-Business-Issue-133-3-18-2018)
Jensen Comment
I strongly disagree with the conclusions of this paper. There's just too much at
stake in nearly all these fields where the consumer is too easily ripped off and
even injured. If anything the professions are too lenient in protecting the
public from their licensed professionals. There are just too many horror stories
where insiders (think colleagues, assistants) kept silent about an incompetent
licensed professional.
Licensing also discourages the poor academic performers from choosing a profession such as when marginal students choose to major in management rather than accounting because of fear of passing the CPA examination. Sure we lose a few good accountants this way but we also lose a lot of potential lousy accountants.
And there are a lot more technical accounting courses in a curriculum than in other business majors because those courses are required to sit for the Uniform (national) CPA Examination. Even in times of budgetary distress colleges cannot drop some of those courses if they want to keep graduates eligible to take the CPA exam. The same is true in other licensing disciplines like law, nursing, pharmacy, engineering, etc. Without licensing requirements it might be tempting to drop some of the technical and relatively expensive courses in a curriculum.
Licensing is not a perfect hurdle. Some bridges designed and/or inspected by licensed engineers do come crashing down on occasion, but I prefer to have licensing requirements to prevent more widespread bridge failures.
Licensing is not a perfect hurdle as evidenced by reputations of professionals among insiders. My wife was a surgical nurse for 20+ years. Insiders like her had their informal surgeon rating systems even if they seldom discussed those ratings in public. When I broke my hip years ago riding a bicycle she chose what she and other insiders at the Northeast Baptist Hospital in San Antonio considered the best hip surgeon relative to some others that were better avoided even if they were licensed. One of the huge problems in this type of performance evaluation, however, is that the system has better performance data on surgeons who operated in that hospital for 20+ years in the same hospital relative to newcomers.
It was interesting for me, as an outsider, to discover what specialty the nurses had the strongest feelings about regarding surgeons. The strongest feelings feelings seemed to be directed at plastic surgeons, perhaps because the messy plastic surgery mistakes were more observable in the operating room relative to some other types of surgeries like brain surgery.
It was also interesting to discover that some of the best surgeons were the hardest to work for in the operating room in terms of bad temperaments and rudeness. Some nurses chose to have their own surgeries from the surgeons they preferred not to work with in the operating rooms. Nice professionals aren't always the best professionals
Question
Why do some people, notably elderly Japanese women, commit crimes because they
want to go to prison?
Jensen Comment
Some people in the USA commit crimes just to get free medical treatment,
including sex change operations and organ transplants. Some elderly people may
do it because the care is better, especially in Club Fed. Some prisoners cannot
deal well with the outside world after being locked up for many years. They just
want back on the inside.
In Nordic countries the apartments for prisoners are quite nice and in Finland most prisoners are free to come and go from their "free" apartments.
Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-16/japan-s-prisons-are-a-haven-for-elderly-women
Bob Jensen's health care messaging --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
World Wealth & Income Database --- http://wid.world/
OECD Health Statistics 2016 --- http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm
Facts and statistics (Fast Facts) --- http://gwu.edu/~gprice/handbook.htm
Bob Jensen's links to data and statistics ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#EconStatistics
Bob Jensen's World Library ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on health coverage are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
Bob Jensen's
Tidbits Archives ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbitsdirectory.htm
Bob
Jensen's Pictures and Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Summary of Major Accounting Scandals --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_scandals
Bob Jensen's threads on such scandals:
Bob Jensen's threads on audit firm litigation and negligence ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud001.htm
Current and past editions of my
newsletter called Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Enron --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudEnron.htm
Rotten to the Core --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm
American History of Fraud --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudAmericanHistory.htm
Bob Jensen's fraud
conclusions ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on
auditor professionalism and independence are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud001c.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on
corporate governance are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud001.htm#Governance
Shielding
Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
· With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review (TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
· With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
· With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of Accountancy Ignores TAR
· With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research into Undergraduate Accounting Courses
Shielding
Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
By Bob Jensen
What went
wrong in accounting/accountics research? ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most
Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW:
1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the vegetable nutrition paradox)
that probably will never be solved
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
Bob Jensen's economic crisis messaging http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/2008Bailout.htm
Bob Jensen's threads --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Bob Jensen's Home Page --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/