Tidbits Political Quotations
To Accompany the June 27, 2019 edition of Tidbits
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Animated  Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010) ---
A Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010)

USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/

In September 2017 the USA National Debt exceeded $22 trillion for the first time ---
http://www.statedatalab.org/news/detail/national-debt-surpasses-20-trillion-for-the-first-time-in-us-history

Human Population Over Time on Earth ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE 



 

While a move is underway to destroy the American Dream of rags to riches (by taxing away the riches) the Chinese dream is on the rise.
The Chinese Dream
How a Chinese billionaire went from making $16 a month in a factory to being one of the world's richest self-made women with an $8.3 billion real-estate empire
---

https://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-richest-self-made-woman-wu-yajun-net-worth-2019-2

Top 50 Billionaires in China ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_by_net_worth

Jensen Comment
The question for students to debate is why a supposed communist country allows so many billionaires to rise up from poverty.
That's supposed to happen in the USA where a child growing up in deep poverty (think Oprah Winfrey or Howard Shultz) became a multi-billionaires.
But is it also supposed to happen under communism? If so, why?

 

One reason is that many billionaires can afford to pour lots of money into high risk ventures. When's the last time you heard about a high risk (think Silicon Valley) venture in Europe?

 


Wikiquote from Wikipedia --- https://www.wikiquote.org/

 

History will prove former President Donald Trump was correct about Mexico one day funding an impenetrable wall --- to keep out over 2 billion starving green immigrants seeking to enter Mexico from the north.
Bob Jensen

 

Some Fatherly Words of Wisdom from Jack Bogle, Founder of Vanguard Investments, to My Sons ---
https://jborden.com/2019/06/16/some-fatherly-words-of-wisdom-from-jack-bogle-founder-of-vanguard-investments-to-my-sons/

 

The Young Left’s Anti-Capitalist Manifesto: Its goal is to remake our economic system — and the Democratic Party ---
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-young-lefts-anti-capitalist-manifesto/

 

I have a complaint about America today, and it is simple: we don’t love business enough ---
Tyler Cowen
https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2019/Klingbigbusiness.html

 

"In Praise of Cheap Labor," by Paul Krugman, Slate, March 21, 1997 ---
https://slate.com/business/1997/03/in-praise-of-cheap-labor.html

 

Corruption in general has a deleterious effect on the readiness of economic agents to invest. In the long run, it leads to a paralysis of economic life. But very often it is not that economic agents themselves have had the bad experience of being cheated and ruined, they just know that in this country, or in this part of the economy, or this building scene, there is a high likelihood that you will get cheated and that free riders can get away with it. Here again, reputation is absolutely essential, which is why transparency is so important. Trust can only be engendered by transparency. It's no coincidence that the name of the most influential non-governmental organization dealing with corruption is Transparency International.
A Conversation with Karl Sigmund:  When Rule of Law is Not Working
https://www.edge.org/conversation/karl_sigmund-when-the-rule-of-law-is-not-working

Mortgage Backed Securities are like boxes of chocolates. Criminals on Wall Street and one particular U.S. Congressional Committee stole a few chocolates from the boxes and replaced them with turds. Their criminal buddies at Standard & Poors rated these boxes AAA Investment Grade chocolates. These boxes were then sold all over the world to investors. Eventually somebody bites into a turd and discovers the crime. Suddenly nobody trusts American chocolates anymore worldwide. Hank Paulson now wants the American taxpayers to buy up and hold all these boxes of turd-infested chocolates for $700 billion dollars until the market for turds returns to normal. Meanwhile, Hank's buddies, the Wall Street criminals who stole all the good chocolates are not being investigated, arrested, or indicted. Momma always said: '"Sniff the chocolates first Forrest." Things generally don't pass the smell test if they came from Wall Street or from Washington DC.
Forrest Gump as quoted at http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.sport.tennis/2008-10/msg02206.html

It is not that machines are going to replace chemists. It’s that the chemists who use machines will replace those that don’t ---
Derek Lowe

Gallup: Americans Say No. 1 Problem is 'Government,' No. 2 is 'Immigration' ---
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/survey-americas-no-1-problem-government-no-2-problem-immigration

 

"If you open the borders, my God, there's a lot of poverty in this world, and you're going to have people from all over the world. And I don't think that's something that we can do at this point."
Bernie Sanders
https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-says-he-does-not-support-open-borders-2019-4

 

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so on ad infinitum ---

Augustus De Morgan

Prior to 1980 what was unique about the year of his birth in 1871?
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/De_Morgan.html

 

 

12 inspiring quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.---
https://www.businessinsider.com/inspiring-martin-luther-king-jr-quotes-2017-1

 

21 oustanding Warren Buffet quotations ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-21-best-quotes-2019-2

 

The Atlantic:  The Swiftly Closing Borders of Europe ---
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/12/europe-france-italy-immigration-border/578179/

Italian Minister tells NGO Italy doesn’t want migrants: “Our ports are closed!” ---
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/italian-minister-tells-ngo-italy-doesnt-want-migrants-our-ports-are-closed/#.XB6WCZMs_Xo.twitter

The enemy is fear
We think it's hate
But, it's fear

Gandhi

 

13 of the (alleged) most famous last words in history ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/famous-last-words-in-history-2017-10

21 of Michelle Obama's most inspiring quotes on work, success, and relationships ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/michelle-obama-most-inspiring-quotes-advice-becoming-2019-1

 

19 unforgettable quotes from legendary Marine Gen. Jim 'Mad Dog' Mattis, who quit as Trump's defense secretary ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/general-mattiss-best-quotes-2016-11

 

Here are the Ten Best Pieces of Advice from 2018 Commencement Speakers ---
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Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side because it's been fertilized with more bullshit.
Anonomous

 

The Lucretius Problem is a mental defect where we assume the worst case event that has happened is the worst case event that can happen ---
https://www.fs.blog/2015/04/lucretius-problem/

 

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle

 

The Economic Ignorance of Bernie Sanders ---
http://reason.com/archives/2018/08/09/the-economic-ignorance-of-bernie-sanders

 

Bernie Sanders’ New Campaign Advisor David Sirota Once Touted Hugo Chavez’s ‘Economic Miracle’ in Venezuela ---
http://reason.com/blog/2019/03/19/bernie-sanders-david-sirota-venezuela

 

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

In honor of his centennial, the Top 10 Feynman quotations ---
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/top-10-richard-feynman-quotations

Thomas Sowell (controversial conservative black economist) --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell
The 30 Best Thomas Sowell Quotes ---
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/the-30-best-thomas-sowell-quotes/

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 gave up earlier.

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. 
President Barack Obama when asked if the USA of the future will be perpetually engaged in war.
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-on-americans-being-resigned-to-live-in-a-perpetual-war-2016-7

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

Today, humanity fabricates 1,000 times more transistors annually than the entire world grows grains of wheat and rice combined  ---
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2018/12/11/energy_and_the_information_infrastructure_part_3_the_digital_engines_of_innovation_jevons_delicious_paradox_110368.html

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. ... You get dirty and besides the pig likes it ---
George Bernard Shaw

You can get a lot farther with a smile and a gun than you can with just a smile.
Al Capone

21 quotes from self-made billionaires that will change your outlook on money ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/self-made-billionaire-quotes-that-will-change-your-outlook-on-money-2016-12

 

The Best Advice from 2018's Celebrity Commencement Speakers ---
https://moneyish.com/heart/the-best-advice-from-2018s-celebrity-commencement-speakers/

 

If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln on How to Handle Criticism ---

https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/27/abraham-lincoln-criticism/?mc_cid=855d203b71&mc_eid=4d2bd13843

 

The Economist:  A new kind of left-wing doctrine is emerging. It is not the answer to capitalism’s problems ---
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/02/14/millennial-socialism?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/2019/02/14n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/na/202273/n

 

14 of George H.W. Bush's most presidential quotes ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/george-hw-bush-best-quotes-2018-4

 

Minneapolis Is Using Zoning to Tackle Housing Affordability and Inequality ---
https://ash.harvard.edu/minneapolis-using-zoning-tackle-housing-affordability-and-inequality

 

How Oakland Cops Gamed the System To Earn $30 Million in Overtime Pay ---
https://reason.com/2019/06/12/how-oakland-cops-gamed-the-system-to-earn-30-million-in-overtime-pay/

 

Trading a Greener USA for a Browner Chile
Saving the Planet With Electric Cars Means Strangling This Desert: Mining lithium and copper to supply the battery boom and fight climate change is wrecking a fragile ecosystem in Chile ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-11/saving-the-planet-with-electric-cars-means-strangling-this-desert

 

Resource Allocations:  The Math That Could Bring the World to a Halt ---
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190606-the-maths-problem-that-modern-life-depends-on


Rent Control Returns to the State of New York

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/rent-control-returns-to-new-york.html
Jensen Comment
Building new rental properties in New York (like in Oregon) becomes a bad investment

 

Homelessness and the Failure of Urban Renewal ---
https://mises.org/wire/homelessness-and-failure-urban-renewal

 

China's Father of Electric Cars Says Hydrogen Is the Future ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-12/china-s-father-of-electric-cars-thinks-hydrogen-is-the-future?cmpid=BBD061419_WKND&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=190614&utm_campaign=weekendreading

 

Taxpayers Will Pay for Sex-change Surgery for Minors In Vermont ---
https://translifezine.com/tag/thailand/

 

12 white men sue San Francisco PD for racial, gender bias in promotions ---
https://www.foxnews.com/us/12-white-men-sue-san-francisco-pd-for-racial-gender-bias-in-promotions

 

Trump warns of 'market crash' if he loses in 2020 ---
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/448719-trump-warns-of-market-crash-if-he-loses-in-2020
Jensen Comment
You can't take $100 trillion from investors for green initiatives, Medicare-for-All, free college, guaranteed minimum income for 350 million USA residents, etc.and not have a stock market and pension funding crash in the USA. I shudder at voting for Trump, but progressive candidates for the 2020 presidency are bent on destroying the USA economy.

 

Tennessee Volkswagen plant rejects unionization ---
https://www.apnews.com/69fe70c9471048fe8da74076f715fec4

 

Criminals may now drive (not even speed) away from Kentucky crime scenes without worrying about a police chase ---
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article231523308.html

Jensen Comment
I wonder if this included following suspects during surveillance.

 

Book Recommendation The Great Successor:  The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/the-great-successor.html

 

The Trump Tax Reform Is Generating Good Results ---
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2019/06/18/the-trump-tax-reform-is-generating-good-results-n2548464?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f

 

Award-Winning Feminist Author Says Parents With 'Bad Genes' Should Be Banned From Reproducing ---
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/06/18/awardwinning-feminist-author-says-parents-with-bad-genes-should-be-banned-from-reproducing-n2548490?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=06/19/2019&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167

Jensen Comment
It's not too much of a leap from here to the "Master Race."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_race

 

PG&E Corp. has agreed to pay $1 billion to compensate more than a dozen California cities, counties and agencies for losses resulting from deadly wildfires sparked by its equipment ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-settles-with-some-california-communities-on-wildfire-claims-11560894354?mod=djemCFO
Jensen Comment
Who really pays the $1 billion? Not the bankrupt PG&E, The custormers of PG&E pay the $1 billion.

 

Former Obama Press Secretary Slams Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) For ‘Making Stuff Up’ About Amazon ---
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/595801-former-obama-press-secretary-slams-aoc-for-making-stuff-up-about-amazon?utm_source=c-pm&utm_medium=c-pm-email&utm_term=c-pm-GI

 

Corrupt Clinton Foundation Foreign Policy Director Amitabh Desai Appears to Have Vanished ---
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/597421-exclusive-corrupt-clinton-foundation-foreign-policy-director-amitabh-desai-appears-to-have-vanished-special?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI

 

San Francisco May Ban Sales of E-Cigarettes (Yeah right! The City that does virtually nothing to ban the sale of hard drugs) ---
https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20190619/san-francisco-may-ban-sales-of-e-cigarettes

 

 




Gulf on Edge as Conflicting Accounts of Tanker Attacks Swirl ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-14/u-s-says-video-shows-iran-was-involved-in-an-attack-on-tanker?cmpid=BBD061419_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=190614&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

 

Jensen Comment
It's possible that we're witnessing an upgrade of what in the terrorism strategy is known as the Lone Wolf Terrorism. Nations that can no longer risk declarations of war can inspire and otherwise aid lone wolf or independent gang attacks. Such attacks can take on many forms from human smugglers funded secretly by central governments to murderous hits (think of the killing of Kim Jong's half brother in Malaysia) to alleged tanker hits in the Persian Gulf.

 

The famed assassinations carried out by the KGB, CIA, and Mossad my be a thing of the past because these government intelligence agencies are too traceable to governments. The future of terror wars my be more like assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy. Of course the sinking of oil tankers and downing of airliners take more sophisticated weaponry than an handgun or a rifle. But more sophistication weaponry (think drones and dirty bombs) are or will soon be available on the black market.

 

Lone Wolf Terrorism seems to be on the rise and eventually will lead to elimination of individual freedoms. George Orwell's universal surveillance may become inevitable for sustaining what's left of human life on earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

 

Iran fast-boats preventing towing of damaged Altair (Norweigian) tanker ---
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-attacks-usa-tugboats/iran-fast-boats-preventing-towing-of-damaged-altair-tanker-source-idUSKCN1TF2AP

 


 

Disinvited Speakers Get a Platform to Talk About Being Denied One ---
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Disinvited-Speakers-Get-a/246518?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&cid=at

Jensen Comment
Your academic life is doomed forever if sometime in your past (maybe when you were in middle school) you were pictured in black face or did not follow the liberal dogma on socialism, feminism, gay rights, transgender rights, abortion, minority intellectual equality, poverty, universal medical insurance, destroying Wall Street, animal rights, confiscation of guns, etc. As the article points you you may be invited to speak on a neutral topic (like cancer) but will be disinvited in if you're wearing a controversial red letter from your past mistakes of not being sufficiently liberal from date of birth.

In fact the universities are now denying admission as a first-year student if you were not sufficiently liberal in your childhood ---
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/18/us/harvard-rescind-admission/index.html

Ironically, universities are now taking pride in admitting ex-convicts but not unless they were incarcerated on the assumption that incarceration washes away all sin.

Harvard considers applicants to be of "low moral character" if they favor gun rights such as gun rights activist Kyle Kashuv from Parkland High School ---
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/18/us/harvard-rescind-admission/index.htm

Harvard told Kashuv in a May letter that it "reserves the right to withdraw an offer of admission under various conditions, including 'if you engage or have engaged in behavior that brings into question your honesty, maturity, or moral character.'"

You cannot even imagine being granted tenure at Harvard if you're a conservative thinker ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm

A third disgrace in the hiring bias of faculty in higher education. It's not at all uncommon for over 90+% of the faculty on campus to be members of the Democratic Party. Harvard's conservative political scientist Harvey Mansfield once warned a non-tenured Harvard professor who whispered to Harvey that he too was conservative. Harvey advised that non-tenured professor against "raising the jolly Roger" until after attaining tenure. Harvey was serious in this instance. Fifty years ago college campuses had conservative thought in the curriculum and focused on the writings of such conservative theorists as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. Now such writings are not politically correct. Bravo to the University of Colorado for creating a professorship for a conservative thinker so there could be at least one on campus.

 

Bob Jensen's threads on political correctness ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness


 

 

 

 


 

 


 

 

 


 

 

 


 

 


 

 




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