Friday, February 20, 2015

A Lot to Think About

I am going to post a whole bunch of articles with short comments.

The Columbus Dispatch - Chase CEO Jamie Dimon speaks bluntly on politics, bad employees. The CEO of JP Morgan and Chase claims that the problem in America is unprepared students. He believes they should take internships. Now Mr. Dimon had to pay over $24 Billion in fines for his company violating the law and is currently under investigation for hiring the children of Chinese government officials to get Chinese government contracts. I wonder how prepared those Chinese kids were, maybe he really meant that Americans should know enough to make sure that their parents can give JP Morgan money.

Yahoo - AP - After attacks, Europe fights call for mass migration of Jews. After World War II, most Jews left Europe and they are still fighting for their lives there. I don't recall Jews killing cartoonists in Europe; but, they seem to prefer giving immigration to Muslims over Jews.

The Fiscal Times - How Wall Street Is Fighting to Rip Off Your Retirement Money. The Upper Middle Class has figured out that they are getting taken advantage of too by the rich and they don't like it. They are the ones that actually make things work. To twist Lincoln's words, you can screw all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time; but, you cannot screw all of the people all of the time, eventually they will all turn on you as happened in the French revolution.

Yahoo - Motoramic - Volvo vows to put first self-driving cars in customers' hands by 2017. Sooner than you thought.

BBC - 'Designer babies' debate should start, scientists say. Wait, it is a little late in England to begin the debate as they have been having three parent babies for at least 18 years through genetic modification.