Tidbits
Political Quotations
To Accompany the April 15, 2021Edition of Tidbits
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2021/tidbits041521.htm
Bob Jensen at
Trinity University
The Jewish Express: A Brief History of
Antifa: Part I ---
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/a-brief-history-of-antifa-part-i/2020/06/14/
The Jewish Experess: A Brief History of
Antifa: Part II ---
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/a-brief-history-of-antifa-part-ii-antifa-in-the-united-states/2020/06/24/
Also see
https://www.wnd.com/2020/09/biden-claims-antifa-isnt-real-wnds-free-22000-word-e-book-proves-lying/
When Antifa received word that Ngo's book was
for sale at Powell's bookstore, they decided to show up and demand that the
local chain cease selling it all together ---
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2021/01/11/watch-antifa-demands-a-local-bookstore-stop-selling-andy-ngos-book-about-antifas-nasty-tactics-n2582974?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=01/12/2021&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167
Nobody want to be the target of Antif's's arsonists
Antifa members threaten to 'burn' down DC
during Black Lives Matter march ---
https://www.foxnews.com/us/antifa-members-threatens-to-burn-down-dc-during-black-lives-matter-march
FBI director calls Antifa 'a real thing' ---
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/516911-fbi-director-wray-calls-antifa-a-real-thing
'
Antifa
group continues occupation of Seattle-area hotel with plans to stay permanently
for free ---
https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-takes-over-seattle-area-hotel
Did you notice how the major media no longer reports these takeovers?
According to The New York Times, potentially
90 percent of those who have tested positive for COVID-19 have such
insignificant amounts of the virus present in their bodies that such individuals
do not need to isolate nor are they candidates for contact tracing ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html
Supply Chain Complexity: A dose of the
BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, for example, requires 280 components from multiple
countries ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/03/supply-chain-sentences-to-ponder.html
My Latest Web Document
Over 700 Examples of Critical Thinking and Illustrations of How to Mislead With
Statistics ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.htm
What's Wrong With Wind and Solar? ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqppRC37OgI
Electricity prices are already going up because of the 'wasteful, duplicative
solar and wind on our grid' Facebook Twitter Comments Print Email ---
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/biden-climate-actions-to-jolt-electricity-prices
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/
The published national debt is a lie
Here's the real federal debt ---
https://www.truthinaccounting.org/about/our_national_debt
Debt to GDP Ratio by Country 2020 ---
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-national-debt/
Human Population Over Time on Earth ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE
MIT's Links to Covid-19 Trackers Around the World ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/1000961/launching-mittr-covid-tracing-tracker/
Johns Hopkins University:
Updated Map and Table on the Number of Coronavirus Cases for Every Nation
---
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Accuracy is subject to wide margins of error for every nation and varies greatly
between nations.
Covid019 in New Hampshire
---
https://www.nh.gov/covid19/
The best maps for comparing
counties and towns in your state are provided by your state. For example, here's
the map showing the distribution of cases for New Hampshire counties and towns
---
https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-coronavirus-map/32009329#
Cities such as Los Angeles,
Minneapolis, New York City, Portland, Ore., and Austin, Texas, have shifted
funds from police departments to social services programs see an spike in
violent crime ---
https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-defunded-cities-murders-crime-budget
Beautiful News Daily (news and statistics to offset all of
today's bad news) ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/
Here's a humorous and serious TED talk that seriously argues why the world needs billionaires
https://www.ted.com/talks/harald_eia_where_in_the_world_is_it_easiest_to_get_rich
Why did Cuba abandon its socialist/communist dream of equality for everybody?
The Guardian: This was the egalitarian dream of Cuba in the 1960s: For years in
Cuba, jobs as varied as farm workers and doctors only had a difference in their
wages of the equivalent of a few US dollars a month.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/12/cuba
Here's a somber and serious Guardian article on why the Cuban
model of income equality for all is a disaster ---
Fidel Castro says his economic system is failing ---
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/09/fidel-castro-cuba-economic-model
Cuba lifts ban on most
private business to deal with worst economic crisis since the fall of the Soviet
Union ---
https://worldnewsera.com/news/finance/cuba-lifts-ban-on-most-private-business/
Socialism Doesn't Work ---
https://reason.com/2021/02/10/socialism-doesnt-work/
Nordic Countries are Not Socialist Paradises ---
https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-moms-research-part-1-nordic-countries-are-not-socialist-paradises_3695026.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-02-12-3
Nordic countries are capitalist
Miracle of Chile ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Chile
Movie: The Chicago Boys of Chile ---
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/chicagoboysenglish
How to Fix Economic Inequality? ---
https://www.piie.com/microsites/how-fix-economic-inequality
Cuba’s Dubious Miracle ---
https://www.hoover.org/research/cubas-dubious-miracle
The Singapore Dream: How Singapore's richest man went
from welding in a factory for $14 per hour to owning a $17 billion hotpot
restaurant chain ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/life-of-singapore-richest-man-from-welder-to-hotpot-billionaire-2020-1
After 40 years of capitalism, China’s income is divided almost as unequally as
America’s ---
https://qz.com/1591961/thomas-pikettys-new-research-shows-rising-inequality-in-china/
China has more billionaires than any other country in the world (and
generating more at a higher rate than any other nation) ---
https://qz.com/1919974/china-created-a-record-number-of-billionaires-despite-covid-19/
A Letter to My Children Regarding Bernie Sanders ---
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/a-letter-to-my-children-regarding-bernie-sanders/
A study of Bernie's past reveals a very dangerous man who could bring down the
USA
History Tells Us to Worry About Inflation (in spite of what Paul Krugman
says) ---
https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/macroeconomic-history-tells-us-to-worry-about-inflation
The Bill Is Coming Due for China’s
‘Capitalist’ Experiment ---
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-coming-due-china-capitalist-113012069.html
Thanks Wm. Dennis Huber for the heads up
What's Wrong With a Wealth Tax?
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/whats-wrong-with-a-wealth-tax
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?
Here's a humorous and serious TED talk that seriously argues why the world needs billionaires
https://www.ted.com/talks/harald_eia_where_in_the_world_is_it_easiest_to_get_rich
Vaccine Politics in Europe Versus America ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/01/vaccine-politics-in-europe-and-america.html
Wikiquote from Wikipedia --- https://www.wikiquote.org/
I detest what you write, but I would give my
life to make it possible for you to continue to write ---
Voltaire
"This is perhaps the assembly of the most
intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House, with the exception
of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone"
John F. Kennedy at a White House party
As cities chose to reduce police budgets for 2020, this is
what happened to their murder rates ---
https://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/murderspike.jpg
Harper's: A Letter on Justice and Open Debate --- |
They're Coming to America ---
https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2021/01/21/theyre-coming-to-america-n2583446?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=01/21/2021&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167
Scientists suggest US embassies were hit with
high-power microwaves – here’s how the weapons work
https://theconversation.com/scientists-suggest-us-embassies-were-hit-with-high-power-microwaves-heres-how-the-weapons-work-151730
The Guardian: American classics among
most ‘challenged’ books of the decade in US (protesters want them removed from
libraries and schools) ---
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/28/classics-books-most-often-challenged-and-banned-in-us-banned-books-week-to-kill-a-mockingbird
Bob Jensen's threads on banned books
In 1785 the state legislature of Virginia
unanimously rejected a proposal from evangelicals to free the state’s slaves ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/virginia-fact-of-the-day.html
When the Great Scorer comes to write against your name, one unforgiveable sin (racial profiling) outweighs all the good you've done in life.
Bob Jensen
Kobe Bryant: We need to make the most of
every minute we have ---
https://www.newsweek.com/i-wont-take-see-you-later-granted-148449
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Political Correctness: New York Times
Conveniently Revises History on the 2020 Antifa/BLM-Led Riots ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/01/new-york-times-conveniently-revises-history-on-the-2020-antifa-blm-led-riots/
The 2020 Election Was a Rebuke of Socialism
---
https://reason.com/2021/01/18/the-2020-election-was-a-rebuke-of-socialism/
Even Though Biden Won, Republicans Enjoyed The Largest Electoral College Edge In
70 Years. Will That Last?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/even-though-biden-won-republicans-enjoyed-the-largest-electoral-college-edge-in-70-years-will-that-last/
Taiwan’s Crowdsourced Democracy Shows Us How to Fix Social Media ---
The Result of "Too Much Money": Asset Price
Inflation and Inequality ---
https://mises.org/wire/result-too-much-money-asset-price-inflation-and-inequality?utm_source=Mises+Institute+Subscriptions&utm_campaign=70a67886d5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_21_2018_9_59_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8b52b2e1c0-70a67886d5-228708937
James Baldwin Talks About Racism in America &
Civil Rights Activism on The Dick Cavett Show (1969) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/08/james-baldwin-talks-about-racism-in-america-civil-rights-activism-on-the-dick-cavett-show-1969.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. And it’s an unreliable guide to the future
Bill Gates, “The Road Ahead”
Hermann Weyl born in Hamburg, Germany. He wrote,
"One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to
men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight---brilliant, sharp, but
cold ... thus we are clearest where knowledge matters least: in mathematics,
especially number theory." ---
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Weyl.html
Also see Mathematical Analytics in Plato's Cave
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm#Analytics
And nevertheless conclude that the optimum
amount of restriction of immigration is zero point zero, zero, zero? Amazing.
Economics are generally skeptical models that yield corner solutions ---
https://www.econlib.org/do-you-talk-about-it-in-open-borders-yes/
Jensen Comment
To the list of questions I would add "Do your talk about the Tragedy of the
Commons?"
The problem with open borders is somewhat related to the economic problem of
"The Sharing of the Commons" where giving everybody the right to use a free
resource leads to everybody losing that resource. At what point will allowing
billions of people share in the free medical care, free college, and other
scarce resources ruin it for everybody ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
China ‘forcing Uighur Muslims and other
minorities to work in cotton fields’ ---
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-forcing-uighur-muslims-and-other-minorities-to-work-in-cotton-fields-6vz3750t6
Socialist and communism advocates often overlook instances of slavery forced by
governments rather than capitalists
U.S. physicists rally around ambitious plan to
build fusion power plant ---
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/us-physicists-rally-around-ambitious-plan-build-fusion-power-plant
https://www.data-z.org/news/detail/a-short-history-of-corruption-in-illinois
History of United States Immigration Laws ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGCkZzrvQkcFbRplBPwBFwmFDs
Persecution Of Christians: The 21st Century
Crisis Which Is Not Making Headlines ---
Click Here
'Cancel Culture Gone Mad': Fans React as
'Captain Underpants' Book Pulled Over Racism Concerns ---
https://www.newsweek.com/cancel-culture-gone-mad-fans-react-captain-underpants-book-pulled-over-racism-concerns-1579602
Progressivism's Failures: From Minimum Wages
to the Welfare State ---
https://mises.org/wire/progressivisms-failures-minimum-wages-welfare-state
Scandinavia Understands the Value of Low
Corporate Taxes. Why Doesn't Joe Biden? ---
https://reason.com/2021/04/01/joe-biden-corporate-tax-rate-increase-policy-spending-denmark-norway-sweden/
Despite History of Failure, Destructive Rent Control is
Poised to Hit Illinois ---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/despite-history-of-failure-destructive-rent-control-is-poised-to-hit-illinois
Lies The FBI Tell Us ---
https://canadafreepress.com/article/lies-the-fbi-tell-us
A Fact Check on The NYT's Fact Check, Which
Feeds the Misinformation About Georgia's New Election ---
Click Here
MLB
Moves All-Star Game to Colorado, a State With Voter ID Laws ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/04/mlb-moves-all-star-game-to-colorado-a-state-with-voter-id-laws/
The US is worried about its critical minerals
supply chains – essential for electric vehicles, wind power and the nation’s
defense ---
https://theconversation.com/the-us-is-worried-about-its-critical-minerals-supply-chains-essential-for-electric-vehicles-wind-power-and-the-nations-defense-157465
A list of the 35 most critical minerals at the moment
Biden Administration Retracts Claim That $2.25
Trillion Infrastructure Plan Would Create 19 Million Jobs ---
https://reason.com/2021/04/06/biden-administration-retracts-claim-that-2-25-trillion-infrastructure-plan-would-create-19-million-jobs/
Bar Exams May Soon Be Easier To Pass, As
States Eye Changes ---
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/bar-exams-may-soon-be-easier-to-pass-as-states-eye-changes
The USA needs more starving and homeless lawyers.
‘We have never seen so much money’ – Federal
cash pours into Colorado’s cities and counties ---
https://www.data-z.org/news/detail/we-have-never-seen-so-much-money-federal-cash-pours-into-colorados-cities-and-counties
Student responsible for racist graffiti
that was found in Albion College dorm, officials say [Media refuses to name
21-year-old black male who was arrested for anti-black hate crime] ---
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3948999/posts
A Fifth! Only A Fifth Of Biden Bill Has
Anything To Do With Infrastructure ---
Click Here
During the pandemic, there has been severe
hostility to firms buying back their own shares, a practice only made legal in
the UK in 1981 ---
https://www.economicsobservatory.com/should-companies-be-allowed-to-buy-back-their-own-shares
Here are the states where retirement savers
have the biggest nest eggs ---
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/12/here-are-the-states-where-retirement-savers-have-the-biggest-nest-eggs.html
Nancy Pelosi's Husband Uses Call Options to
Buy Microsoft Ahead of Big Govt Contract ---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/nancy-pelosis-husband-uses-call-options-to-buy-microsoft-ahead-of-big-govt-contract
In New York it's better to be a low-paid
working non-American than a low-paid American, because American's aren't
eligible for the planned $300 per month handout to be given to working illegals
---
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-offering-15k-payments-illegal-immigrants
Why don't labor unions object to this?
Oakland to give a uniform
basic income (UBI) of $500 to select low-income households that are black
or Native American?
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/oakland-to-give-500-a-month-to-low-income-households-except-for-whites
Is this type of racial discrimination even legal? Keep in mind that whites are now a minority race in all of California, and especially in Oakland? Asian families and white families need not apply.
Many of the blacks in the USA are not decedents of slavery in the USA since so many blacks immigrated to the USA after the Civil War, including blacks arriving in the 21st Century. Apparently you don't have to be descendent from slavery to get this $500 monthly UBI.
Lies The FBI Tell Us ---
https://canadafreepress.com/article/lies-the-fbi-tell-us
Updates on Medical Insurance
The good, the bad, and the ugly of England's universal health-care system
---
https://theweek.com/articles/789287/good-bad-ugly-englands-universal-healthcare-system
Sponsored by California Nurses Association and
authored by Assemblymember Ash Kalra, AB 1400 will ensure that all Californians,
regardless of employment, income, immigration status, race, gender, or any other
considerations, can get the health care they need, free at the point of service
---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/california-nurses-sponsor-a-bill-mandating-free-healthcare-for-everyone
Jensen Comment
There is no program for funding this massive expense; The expense is unknown,
because it there's no way of knowing how many chronically ill people in the
other 49 states will flock to California for free medical care, let alone how
many chronically ill people in the world will flock to California under the
Biden-Harris open borders plan. How can California offer free medical care
and long-term nursing care to everybody that's now available in the USA only for
the poor who are eligible for Medicaid? Free medical care alone could easily
bankrupt the State of California in the first year of implementation.
California does not have the medical care capacity to provide free medical care
to all the people that will flood California seeking free medical care.
Open immigration can’t exist with a strong
social safety net; if you’re going to assure
healthcare and a decent income to everyone,
you can’t make that offer global ---
Paul Krugman
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/724654-open-immigration-can-t-exist-with-a-strong-social-safety-net
COMMON SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS (DRUG ADDICTION) ---
https://www.addictiongroup.org/resources/faq/sud/
Bob Jensen's threads on health insurance ---
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 homepage --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/