Tidbits
Political Quotations
To Accompany the April 30, 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
Former state comptroller
criticizes Illinois’ budget dishonesty ---
https://www.data-z.org/news/detail/former-state-comptroller-criticizes-illinois-budget-dishonesty
When Measured by Real-World Outcomes,
Capitalism Delivers ---
https://mises.org/wire/when-measured-real-world-outcomes-capitalism-delivers
Keep in mind that the Scandinavian nations are all capitalist, and the most
interesting experiment in socialism/communism in Cuba is now being replaced by
capitalist opportunties.
Obama's Chief Energy Scientist Disputes the
Climate Change Propaganda Peddlers ---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/obamas-chief-energy-scientist-disputes-the-climate-change-propaganda-peddlers
Green Initiatives: You can always rely
on EU leaders to put appearances ahead of content ---
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/the-eus-stunning-green-hypocrisy-at-least-trump-was-honest-about-targets
Cuba’s economic woes may fuel America’s next
migrant crisis ---
https://theconversation.com/cubas-economic-woes-may-fuel-americas-next-migrant-crisis-158260
Stanford University:
Both Medical and Non-Medical Masks are Ineffective in Preventing Covid-19
Transmission and Might Have Devastating Long-term Consequences ---
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987720333028
The suspected long-term adverse consequences still need more scientific
study.
Anecdotally I still think that masks and gloves that I wear protect me from
colds, flu, and possibly other airborne/surface diseases. I will continue to
wear masks and gloves in public places.
We did not have enough Covid-19 in northern New Hampshire to put Covid-19 to a
proper test.
College presidents, student leaders, and
scholars welcomed the outcome of the trial of Derek Chauvin even as they renewed
their resolve to stem persistent racial inequities in higher education ---
Click Here
Digging Deeper Into Holocaust History ---
http://earth.nautil.us/article/674/digging-deeper-into-holocaust-history
The ComEd corruption scandal is a wake-up call
for Illinois ---
https://www.data-z.org/news/detail/the-comed-corruption-scandal-is-a-wake-up-call-for-illinois
So many people fled New York and California for Texas and Florida that the
coasts will lose power in Congress — and the South is about to get a much bigger
say ---
Click Here
A swath of Sun Belt states welcomed scores of new residents during the pandemic, while coastal heavyweights like New York and California hemorrhaged them.
The US had 331,449,281 people as of April 1, 2021, a 7.4% increase in population from 2010, the US Census Bureau announced on Monday.
The South was the fastest-growing region of the country, with its population increasing by 10.2% over the last decade, followed by the West at 9.1%, the Northeast at 4.1%, and the Midwest at 3.1%.
The new data determines how many congressional seats each state gets based on population — which means that the South and West stand to gain more House of Representatives spots, while the Northwest and Midwest could lose them.
The country's total population grew by only 0.35% from July 2019 to July 2020, or just 1.1 million people. It marked the "lowest annual growth rate since at least 1900," demographer William Frey, a fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, said at the time in an analysis for the Washington, DC-based think tank.
States in the Northeast and Midwest saw slight declines in population, while the South and West saw slight upticks.
The increases, though, are significant because they revealed where Americans moved during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. Americans overwhelmingly flocked to less dense areas in the southern and middle swaths of the country.
Jensen Comment
With thousands streaming uncounted into the USA each day at current rates, the
331, 449,281 estimate badly understates the number of people residing in the
USA. The number is most likely well over 360 million and growing by leaps and
bounds with new additions from Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East,
South America (think Venezuela), Africa, and Asia
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/