tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12940001401498876712024-03-05T19:12:59.235-08:00Un-thoughtJWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.comBlogger379125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-1982804142937848662024-02-22T07:42:00.000-08:002024-02-28T15:08:56.436-08:00My Biggest Governmental/Political Issues as of Feb 2024<p style="text-align: left;"></p><p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">The war in Ukraine - it looks to me like the failure to get a negotiated agreement to avoid the war was big foreign policy failure. Putin is an evil dictator but there have already been about 15,000 deaths and many more injuries. We should have pushed the Ukrainians to offer Russia the parts of where the majority of the people prefer to be part of Russia plus neutrality and no entrance to NATO. If he refused that then we have to support the war. Further Putin though an evil dictator unlike the communists in the old USSR allows people to live fairly normal lives as long as they stay away from politics and there is hope for change from within. As the US Government learned in Afghanistan, Governing a place were the people hate you is often not beneficial in the modern world, so Ukraine may make problems for Russia if they try to dominate it. </span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Drug prohibition - it seems to me that the illegality of drugs though it may reduce recreational drug use a little on net is a negative. The war on drugs has been destructive to parts of Latin America and in parts of the country here. I think we should try legalizing the sale so users can be assured of some level of constancy in the supply. Hopefully that will reduce accidental overdose. Drug OD deaths are now over 100,000 per year and they have been doubling each decade at least since 1980, and some researchers say since 1940.</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Euclidean zoning - Euclidean zoning allows people to stop building for frivolous reasons like increased traffic and neighborhood character. It is a denial of the right to build and develop and has driven housing costs up in the most desirable parts of the USA. It has contributed to homelessness particularly in west coast cities. The incentives being what they are in local politics, I think the Federal government needs to make it illegal.</span></li></ul><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Crime - Crime is mostly a local issue but, the US murder rate is much higher than other developed countries, and we have an example of how to reduce it in New York city were crime is much lower than it used to be. There is a debate about the importance of "stop and frisk" in New York's success, was mainly due to a reduction in corruption in the police force and how much if any of the reduction was due to immigration. </span></li></ul><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Medical insurance reform - the federal government pays for about 65% of healthcare in the US but Medicine is mostly regulated at the state and local level. That creates some undesirable incentives. So I think we should transfer more of the regulation of healthcare to the federal Government, or make the system more incentive compatible by having the Federal Government give the money that it would spent on healthcare to the states with the requirement that the cover people who are now on Medicare, the lowest income citizens (current on Medicaid) and all Federal government employees. The states can spend it in the most efficient way and if some money is left spend it on what they like. I've written about that and some other possible reforms.</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Medicare reform - if we do not do the above we should have Medicare stop paying for stuff that the UK's MHS does not provide. That is care that has not shown a positive net benefit to cost from what I've read that seems to be at least 20% of Medicare spending. I've written about other reforms that might help reduce costs. </span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Social Security reform - The system should stop giving COLA raises to the higher lifetime earners until all recipients receive the same payment in retirement. The system in Australia</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> works that way, for the Government part of pensions, every retiree gets the same amount. It is and should a program to prevent the elderly from falling into poverty.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: arial;">To me the issues we focus most on like immigration are problems but not as big as the above. Inflation has been a problem for the last few years but seems to be under control now.</span></div><p></p><p></p><p></p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-12183548163807756842024-01-25T07:40:00.000-08:002024-01-25T08:38:35.112-08:00A Compromise with Drug Law Supporters<p>As a compromise with drug law supporters, I have begun to propose that we legalize the sale of all drugs, to make the supply safer, but make the use of certain recreational drugs without a prescription illegal. This would be to reduce the collateral damage from drug use, including spouse abuse and child abuse and street crime. That way if someone calls the police because a drugged up guy in behaving bad, the police can arrest and jail him and it is an easier conviction.</p><p>I would say that they could then force him into treatment but from the evidence that I've seen forced treatment doesn't work. Of course in the future it might and so we should keep it as an option.</p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-39953119774882376262024-01-25T07:38:00.000-08:002024-01-25T07:38:29.019-08:00A UBI Design Again<div><span style="font-family: arial;">I support a $260/week UBI given to all US citizens over 18 years old but it would replace TANF, SNAP, minimum wage laws, housing subsidies etc. and yes Social Security also. There would no longer be a reason to have those programs if we had a UBI. And I think giving more money to parents for there children would dangerous in that a very few but not 0 might have children that they neglect to get more money and that would look bad for the UBI and in fact be bad. Children are already subsidized through schools and free lunch programs and charities like to help children and the UBI would make the problem of child poverty small enough that charity could cover it. I would also start taxing the 1st dollar earned at 33% instead of 15.2%. The tax rate/bracket could lowered once income goes about enough to pay for the UBI ($40,969.70/year). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">If it reduces would too much a work requirement can be added.</span></div>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-60172428035619403412024-01-08T11:20:00.000-08:002024-01-08T11:20:50.168-08:00Factors in Increase in Homelessness <p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">What has contributed to the increase in homelessness in the USA </span></p><p><span style="color: #282829; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One factor seems to be deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill.</span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282829; direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">From google AI: “Studies from the late 1980s suggest that homelessness is related to deinstitutionalization”</span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282829; direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #282829;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Another factor especially on the west coast is the increase in voters ability to block the rights of land owners to build for frivolous reasons like increased traffic, neighborhood character etc. <a href="https://preliminaryzoninganalysis.com/blog/euclidean-zoning/#%3A~%3Atext%3DFor%20example%2C%20surveys%20have%20found%2Cmake%20new%20housing%20construction%20difficult.">See Euclidian zoning.</a></span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Which BTW is an extreme form of democracy. It is related to Social Democracy which is a system where workers and citizens get to vote on much more. In a socialist Democracy employees would get to vote on how corporations are run and voters in an are would get to vote on what gets built and much more.</span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Another factor is the reduction of police power and courts standing up for the rights of those who end up homeless who might in an earlier time been put in jail. One might look at this as a good thing but can lead to more people living on the streets.</span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Homelessness is a common problem now in most developed countries. Japan seems have overcome it by putting zoning in control of the national government. The national government represents the people in a given area but also the people who would like to live in that area.</span></p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-34512294149278350432023-11-03T10:04:00.000-07:002023-11-03T10:04:06.161-07:00How Much Would a CO2 Raise Gasoline and Electricity Price<p>It looks from <a href=" https://energypost.eu/calculating-the-effect-of-50-tonne-co2-on-energy-prices/">this article</a> like a $100/ton CO2 tax would raise a gallon of gasoline by $.80 and raise electricity cost by about 36%. Seems to me that this should not be such a big deal and I think at $100/ton it might be enough to remove CO2 from the air.</p><p>People would not end up paying that much as electric Companies would produce more not CO2 producing methods and Petroleum prices would be lower than they'd otherwise be and people would tend to buy vehicles that get higher mileage. </p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-30065609809980532272023-10-05T11:33:00.003-07:002023-10-05T11:35:31.873-07:00Better than MMT<p><span style="font-family: arial;">My comments on this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75udjh6hkOs">MMT</a> video.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm one of the few Libertarians who think MMT would no be bad. It would not change much.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">MMT does not say deficits do not matter it says that they can cause inflation and that would require cutting spending and/or raising taxes. To understand this it good to think not about money, but about goods and services.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So if you do a Green New Deal and it draws resources away from more productive uses to less productive uses, that is waste, which is why instead of Green New Deal, a CO2 tax and a payout for the removal of CO2 from the air would be a better than an MMT funded Green New Deal. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In fact we already have a mini Green New Deal new in the form of CAFE standards. The paragraph below shows how poorly it works:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"I and other scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology estimate that the new standards will cost the economy on the whole — for the same reduction in gas use — at least six times more than a federal gas tax of roughly 45 cents per dollar of gasoline. That is because a gas tax provides immediate, direct incentives for drivers to reduce gasoline use, while the efficiency standards must squeeze the reduction out of new vehicles only. The new standards also encourage more driving, not less."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So that's a huge waste of the scarcest resource, human effort.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A function of taxes not mentioned in the video, is to let voters know, as much as possible, how much Government functions are costing. You could for that purpose do the opposite of MMT and insist that all government be funded through taxes and let the Federal Reserve provide all the money to the economy even if the need to keep interest rates at 0% forever and even buy assets in down turns. I think that I would prefer that to MMT because the incidence of Government spending does fall on the citizen, <b>all of it</b> and they should know that as much as possible.</span></p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-8417975274616537622023-09-08T08:10:00.002-07:002023-09-08T08:10:45.629-07:00From ChatGPT Income Quintiles and Church Attendance<p>This is ChatGPT's answer to:<span style="color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> In the USA people from which </span><code style="color: #111111; font-family: var(--cib-font-text); font-size: 14px; font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-body1-stronger-font-variation-settings); font-weight: var(--cib-type-body1-stronger-font-weight); line-height: var(--cib-type-body1-stronger-line-height); user-select: text; word-break: break-word;">income quintile are most likely to attend church regularly.</code></p><p><code style="color: #111111; font-family: var(--cib-font-text); font-size: 14px; font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-body1-stronger-font-variation-settings); font-weight: var(--cib-type-body1-stronger-font-weight); line-height: var(--cib-type-body1-stronger-line-height); user-select: text; word-break: break-word;"><br /></code></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">According to the web search results, people from the</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: var(--cib-type-subtitle2-stronger-font-size); font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-subtitle2-stronger-font-variation-settings); font-weight: var(--cib-type-subtitle2-stronger-font-weight); line-height: var(--cib-type-subtitle2-stronger-line-height);">highest income quintile</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">are most likely to attend church regularly in the USA. The web search results show that:</span></p><ul style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; gap: 10px; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding-inline-start: 24px;"><li>In 2018, among Americans in the bottom income quartile, 35% report that they “never” go to church. <a class="tooltip-target" data-citationid="d88659d7-24d2-49f9-bd15-625d5a71c70f-5-group" h="ID=SERP,5026.1" href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2019/12/income-and-church-attendance/" style="border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; position: relative; text-decoration-color: var(--cib-color-foreground-neutral-tertiary); text-decoration-style: dotted; text-underline-offset: 3px;" target="_blank">Americans in the highest income quartile have the lowest percentage of those who say they “never” go to church, with 25%</a><a aria-label="1: " class="ac-anchor sup-target" data-citationid="d88659d7-24d2-49f9-bd15-625d5a71c70f-5" h="ID=SERP,5026.1" href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2019/12/income-and-church-attendance/" style="position: relative; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="align-items: center; background: var(--cib-color-fill-accent-alt-primary); border-radius: var(--cib-comp-message-citation-border-radius); color: var(--cib-color-foreground-accent-primary); display: inline-flex; font-size: var(--cib-type-caption2-strong-font-size); font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-caption2-strong-font-variation-settings); font-weight: var(--cib-type-caption2-strong-font-weight); height: 14px; justify-content: center; line-height: var(--cib-type-caption2-strong-line-height); margin: 0px 2px; min-width: 14px; outline: transparent solid 1px; position: relative; text-decoration-color: transparent; top: -1px; vertical-align: top;">1</span></a>.</li><li><a class="tooltip-target" data-citationid="d88659d7-24d2-49f9-bd15-625d5a71c70f-8-group" h="ID=SERP,5026.1" href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/november/income-inequality-church-attendance-gap-gss.html" style="border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; position: relative; text-decoration-color: var(--cib-color-foreground-neutral-tertiary); text-decoration-style: dotted; text-underline-offset: 3px;" target="_blank">In 2018, a quarter of the wealthiest Americans reported never attending services, while the share of those in the bottom bracket who never darkened a church door was over 35 percent</a><a aria-label="2: " class="ac-anchor sup-target" data-citationid="d88659d7-24d2-49f9-bd15-625d5a71c70f-8" h="ID=SERP,5026.1" href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/november/income-inequality-church-attendance-gap-gss.html" style="position: relative; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="align-items: center; background: var(--cib-color-fill-accent-alt-primary); border-radius: var(--cib-comp-message-citation-border-radius); color: var(--cib-color-foreground-accent-primary); display: inline-flex; font-size: var(--cib-type-caption2-strong-font-size); font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-caption2-strong-font-variation-settings); font-weight: var(--cib-type-caption2-strong-font-weight); height: 14px; justify-content: center; line-height: var(--cib-type-caption2-strong-line-height); margin: 0px 2px; min-width: 14px; outline: transparent solid 1px; position: relative; text-decoration-color: transparent; top: -1px; vertical-align: top;">2</span></a>.</li></ul><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-body2-font-variation-settings); line-height: var(--cib-type-body2-line-height); margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; word-break: break-word;">These results suggest that there is an <span style="font-size: var(--cib-type-subtitle2-stronger-font-size); font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-subtitle2-stronger-font-variation-settings); font-weight: var(--cib-type-subtitle2-stronger-font-weight); line-height: var(--cib-type-subtitle2-stronger-line-height);">inequality gap</span> in church attendance based on income levels. However, these results do not necessarily imply a causal relationship between income and church attendance, as there may be other factors involved. <a class="tooltip-target" data-citationid="d88659d7-24d2-49f9-bd15-625d5a71c70f-12-group" h="ID=SERP,5026.1" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/attendance-at-religious-services/" style="border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; position: relative; text-decoration-color: var(--cib-color-foreground-neutral-tertiary); text-decoration-style: dotted; text-underline-offset: 3px;" target="_blank">For example, some studies have found that social capital, education, and health are also related to church attendance</a><a aria-label="3: inequality gap" class="ac-anchor sup-target" data-citationid="d88659d7-24d2-49f9-bd15-625d5a71c70f-12" h="ID=SERP,5026.1" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/attendance-at-religious-services/" style="position: relative; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="align-items: center; background: var(--cib-color-fill-accent-alt-primary); border-radius: var(--cib-comp-message-citation-border-radius); color: var(--cib-color-foreground-accent-primary); display: inline-flex; font-size: var(--cib-type-caption2-strong-font-size); font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-caption2-strong-font-variation-settings); font-weight: var(--cib-type-caption2-strong-font-weight); height: 14px; justify-content: center; line-height: var(--cib-type-caption2-strong-line-height); margin: 0px 2px; min-width: 14px; outline: transparent solid 1px; position: relative; text-decoration-color: transparent; top: -1px; vertical-align: top;">3</span></a>. Therefore, more research is needed to understand the complex dynamics of income and church attendance in the USA.</p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-7771113303426968082022-10-24T09:03:00.005-07:002022-10-24T09:03:43.952-07:00Widespread Misperceptions of Long-Term Attitude Change<a class="st-header__logo" href="https://www.pnas.org/" style="align-items: center; align-self: stretch; background: rgb(11, 11, 11); box-sizing: border-box; color: #bdbdbd; display: flex; font-family: Montserrat, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; justify-content: center; margin: 0px -1em; outline: none; padding: 0px 0.5em; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><p><a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2107260119">Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change</a></p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-50500068891581298052022-10-24T09:00:00.004-07:002023-01-25T16:00:37.008-08:00Mondragon and Socialism<div><span style="font-family: arial;">To me it seems silly for a socialist to cite Mondragon. When Mondragon partners vote they do not primarily have the good of society in mind but their own good. They do not hire all the worst workers just because they are earning below 50% of median Spanish Basque income, they hire good workers and contributors.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">They are like unions/mercantilists; they would not balk at decreasing supply to increase their own income. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">They are just as voters in that regard, voters are not always on the side of what is right and just. Take homeowners in San Francisco who think driving a few marginal people into homelessness is an acceptable price to pay to retain the character of their neighborhoods and keep their home values rising. Unions keep their income up and often become exclusive to the point where a job seeker needs pull to get a union job. Business owners will do the same when they have a chance, I'm sure that real-estate companies mainly in the business of owning rental properties vote with home owners to restrict building but they are few and they are counterbalanced by builders who want to build more. It is diversity that is a big benefit of economic freedom. </span></div>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-68183568045176162882022-10-20T11:39:00.001-07:002023-01-26T09:26:58.604-08:00The Kind of Racism I See<p>This is a response to David Henderson's blog post here:</p><p><a href="https://www.econlib.org/is-nikole-hannah-jones-right/">Is Nikole Hannah-Jones Right?</a></p><p>This is kind of racism that I think really exists. Another example is the rate that young black men are being murdered in St Louis is very high and if the victims (and perps) were white we would be doing more about it.</p><p>Another little thing, I watch some basketball and track videos on youtube and youtube seems to offer a disproportionate amount of Larry Byrd, Pete Maravich, Matthew Boling, even Mac McClung (he's done little to earn that notoriety so far). The idea of a great white hope lives.</p><p>So people seem to think in racial lines, and if they are white like to see a white guy do well.</p><p>Part of it might be an underdog effect, like my mother told me her family loved to see Joe Lewis do well, seeing a poor black man beat the supposedly superior race. If there are no or few black doing well in a field people might cheer more for them.</p><p>How destructive the above racism is another question.</p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-89023443855595837452022-10-20T11:38:00.003-07:002023-01-26T09:27:33.909-08:00The Strong Desire to Blame a Human<p>The strong desire to blame a human is something to be resisted. </p><p>This applies to:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Opioids Purdue Pharma the Sackler family.</li><li>White USAers blacks, black USAers whites</li><li>Jobs immigrants</li><li><span style="color: black;"><a class="gL9Hy" data-ved="2ahUKEwj897DelIX2AhVulGoFHUlZDPgQkeECKAB6BAgBEDI" href="https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=APq-WBsD3Rq4sGacKzH4mg1k0bs_2_h5ug:1645046760498&q=Fentanyl&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj897DelIX2AhVulGoFHUlZDPgQkeECKAB6BAgBEDI" id="fprsl" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Fentanyl</a> China</span></li><li>Covid also China</li><li>Medical care insurance companies/drug companies</li></ul><div>And of course much more.</div><p></p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-32420182362626364272022-10-20T11:36:00.009-07:002023-01-19T11:51:54.953-08:00Medical Things that Blacks Outperform Whites On<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to the CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr69/NVSR-69-7-508.pdf">here</a> (</span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">See </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">table</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 2 page 9</span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">, at 31 weeks or less gestation black infant mortality is lower than for whites so it might be hard to change. The difference in infant mortality between Blacks and whites looks like it is not due to </span><span style="background-color: white;">systemic racism in the healthcare system but due to accidents and practices in the home see links below.</span></span></p><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Look at </span><a href="https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2010/compendia/statab/130ed/tables/11s0103.pdf"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">table</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 103 at ages of 90 and up.</span></a> Black Americans 90 year and older have greater life expectancy than white Americans of the same age, so it looks like the difference in Black white life expectancy is mostly due to accidents and homicides and not due to systemic racism in the healthcare system or due to differences in overall health. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">And of course there is skin cancer.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><div><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Links: </span></span></div><div><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/the-u-s-is-failing-in-infant-mortality-starting-at-one-month-old/">The U.S. Is Failing in Infant Mortality, Starting at One Month Old</a></span></span></div><div><span><div><br /></div></span></div><div><a href="https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/12427-uab-hospital-delivers-record-breaking-premature-baby">Record set for the earliest premature baby</a> he is a black American baby born in Alabama</div><div><br /></div><div><div><span><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29479813/">Sudden infant death and sleep practices in the Black community</a></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/IUT98suY7h" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; 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margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 1rem;">Robbing someone on the street is not something that will appear sensible to someone whose alternative is to be an office worker making $70/hr.</em></p></blockquote><div class="comment-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 1rem; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.73; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; word-break: break-word;">Even more so if you have possibilities in the very high paying NBA or NFL, yet from what I've read, people in that position have about the same rate of crime as the age/gender/race demographic that they come from.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 1rem; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.73; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; word-break: break-word;">We have a huge crime problem (see below) and so we could afford to spend quite a but to address it and still be ahead, but we must think clearly at is and look coldly at the data:</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="comment-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 1rem; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.73; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/lifetime-likelihood-going-state-or-federal-prison" rel="nofollow ugc" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0039d8; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.4s ease 0s;">Using standard demographic</a> lifetable techniques, and assuming that recent incarceration rates remain unchanged, an estimated 1 of every 20 persons (5%) can be expected to serve time in prison during their lifetime. The lifetime chances of a person going to prison are higher for men (9%) than for women (1%) and higher for blacks (16%) and Hispanics (9%) than for whites (2%). At current levels of incarceration newborn black males in this country have a greater than a 1 in 4 chance of going to prison during their lifetimes, while Hispanic males have a 1 in 6 chance, and white males have a 1 in 23 chance of serving time.</em></p></div></blockquote><div class="comment-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 1rem; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.73; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; word-break: break-word;">I think legalizing all drugs without a prescription might help.</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="comment-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 1rem;">Up to and including murders among gang members which are considered “mutual-combat” in certain sub cultures. Which I’m sure sounds ridiculous to an upper class Yanqui, but was recently cited as a reason to drop charges by a prosecutor in Chicago.</em></div></div></blockquote><div class="comment-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 1rem;"><br /></em></div><div><div class="comment-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 1rem; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.73; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; word-break: break-word;">That is an interesting point. I've said similar things. We'll not condemn Russian soldiers for killing Ukrainian combatants after the war in Ukraine is over so why go hard on such offences.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />On the other hand cities that allow that to go on should be condemned. We give Gov the monopoly on force to Government to minimize such, if they aren't doing that they are failures and should be replaced.</p></div></div></div>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-4316881018256996722022-10-20T11:21:00.001-07:002022-10-20T11:21:57.224-07:00Interesting Policy Poll<p>Interesting Policy Poll results <a href="https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/HHP_Sept2022_KeyFindings.pdf">here</a> <br /><br /></p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-22673699785873247632022-10-20T11:19:00.003-07:002022-10-20T11:19:38.037-07:00Great Article: Your Opponents Don't Agree with You<a href="https://fakenous.substack.com/p/your-opponents-dont-agree-with-you">Your Opponents Don't Agree with You</a><div><br /></div><div>Example people will say:</div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>Pro-lifers don’t really think abortion is like murder. They just want to prohibit abortion because they hate women. (Seen on the internet.)</div><div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div></div><div>He says, no they really do think abortion is murder.</div><div><br /></div>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-64746192394682580882022-10-19T09:43:00.007-07:002023-06-26T12:38:35.581-07:00Repost of: Angus Deaton Deaths of Despair<p> <span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 22px;">Angus Deaton Deaths of Despair</span></p><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3001329881729004800" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">New Hampshire was the <a href="http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/09/friday-assorted-links-126.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">highest earning state in 2016</a> and <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2017-06-28/why-new-hampshire-has-one-of-the-highest-rates-of-opioid-related-deaths" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">number 2 in opioid OD deaths</a>.<br /><br />Dear Angus Deaton with all due respect you might consider reassessing your <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/for-whites-across-america-deaths-of-despair-are-rising/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">deaths of despair</a> theory. It never made much sense to me, there is in fact some evidence that people drink and drug more when they have more income and therefore access to booze and drugs, which is BTW a problem for my advocacy of legalization but I think the positives would out weigh the negatives.<br /><br />Related: <a href="http://un-thought.blogspot.com/2017/06/healhcare-might-not-be-good-for-everyone_30.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Health Insurance Might not be Good for Everyone</a><br /><br />Added 2018-01-08 see <a href="http://www.nber.org/papers/w24188?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a><br /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the preferred estimates, changes in economic conditions account for less than one-tenth of the rise in drug and opioid-involved mortality rates. The contribution of economic factors is even less when accounting for plausible selection on unobservables, with even a small amount of remaining confounding factors being sufficient to entirely eliminate the relationship. </span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Added 2022-10-19</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Some people seem to miss that variance among people means that prosperity can lead some people to engage more in behaviors that people like Angus Deaton and me consider destructive. This is from Freakonomics post called <a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/retirement-kills/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Retirement Kills</a>.</span></p><blockquote><p></p></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Josef ZWEIMULLER: I mean, actually, what we find in our study is that among blue-collar workers, we see that workers who retire earlier have higher mortality rates. And these effects are pretty large.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> ... </span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Mo WANG: Working actually gives you a way to structure life and that’s very important. Usually, it’s interesting you see people travel right after they retire, but then after like one or two years, people just sit at home watching TV.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This relates to opioid deaths in that fentanyl has made opioids cheaper and more accessible, which is a wealth effect, and so we should expect more use among those who like opioids.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Also this <a href="https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1187148972630118401?s=20&t=UFiGzfVChl3aJ9oB-d-5SA" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">tweet from Robin Hanson</a> seems applicable:</span></p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I missed this when it out a year ago, but <a href="https://econlib.org/Prohibitions-mind_drugs_and_policy" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">this article</a> pointed me to this key result: Per capita US drug deaths have steadily doubled every decade 4 times in a row, R^2=0.99! Even as particular drug death rates far from steady. </span></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">This graph from here https://takimag.com/article/white_privilege_vs_white_death_steve_sailer/ makes it seem like the trend started with cohorts born after 1945. Which suggest the trend has actually been going for ~55 years, which suggests it will continue for another ~3 decades, after which mortality will be ~8x higher!</span></blockquote><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">The trend looks much more a result of growing prosperity than of Despair. Shout it form the house tops.</span></b></p></div>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-25182926428480521622022-10-19T08:19:00.002-07:002022-10-19T08:19:25.272-07:00From the MR Comments on Texas History<p>From comments on MarginalRevolution.com:</p><p>Luka 2021-12-01 00:48:42</p><p></p><blockquote><p>I'm going to defend Texas, something I rarely get to do. Texas is extremely old, it's history goes back centuries. The name is Spanish and it was at one point part of the Spanish Empire and then independent Mexico. The indigenous people of the region were dominated by the fairly violent Comanches who were a persistent thorn in the side of both the Spanish and the Mexicans. Conflict between whites and natives long predates 1836. Some of the land confiscated seems to have been done before independent Texas.</p><p>When Mexico became independent they encouraged "Anglo" migration in part for economic reasons but also to counter the Comanches. Indeed, for as much as you may decry American treatment of indigenous peoples, of which there is much to decry, Mexico was fighting them until the 1930s when the American Indian wars were in effect closed by about 1890(a few minor raids happened after, but historians generally say the war was over in 1890). I've never really understood how the nations of Latin America have seemingly gotten a pass on their treatment of natives and land rights but my guess is that populations are just much more mixed so blame is harder to pinpoint.</p><p>On the issue of land and how it was acquired it should be acknowledged that while some land was taken via conquest or illegally seized in defiance of treaties from natives, an enormous amount of the American West and even colonial lands were simply purchased at prices natives willingly accepted absent military threat. I've read that about $800 million was spent by the Federal government alone from independence until around the end of the 19th century. Thats quit a bit more than was spent on Louisiana($15 million), Alaska($7.2 million), Gadsden ($10 million), Florida($5 million) and Mexico(even after the War the USA still paid them $15 million) combined.</p><p>From the column. "The book proudly defends the broader sweep of Texas history, including the taking of Texas from Mexico and then the absorption of Texas into the United States"</p><p>Thats a strange way of saying "Texas declared independence, later to voluntarily join the USA". Mexico under Santa Anna was headed toward military dictatorship and in many ways was already there. A number of other Mexican states were also in open rebellion under his rule. In the long run the history of Mexico makes it clear that leaving was the best route for Texas both economically and politically. The Mexican revolution(1 million+ dead) was perhaps more deadly than the American Civil War(~750K dead) and that was just one of many internal military conflicts they suffered, to say nothing of their lack of true democracy until 2000.</p><p>I think Texas has an interesting history, perhaps they need to tone it down with their state pride, they share many of the serious issues both the nation had in general, and the CSA in particular. Overall, not a bad column, I guess. Its just always surprising to see someone like Tyler, who is generally libertarian and usually pro-America embrace the more critical and revisionist historical take on the USA. Self reflection is good, but it has gotten to the point of self hatred in too many quarters.</p></blockquote><p></p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-19170818192551184142022-09-23T11:15:00.002-07:002023-10-27T09:42:16.636-07:00The Decline in the Male Employment Rate<p></p><p>This has been an Econ topic of discussion the last few day:</p><blockquote>Larry Summers: There is some social phenomenon which I suspect explains non work, non marriage, deaths of despair, general alienation and, I suspect, the rise of reactionary populism. It should be a major task of social science to understand it.</blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>It seems like these are caused by the obvious things but that no one wants to acknowledge.</p><p>Non-work: Smaller and more affluent families are more willing and able to support a non-worker. Also black males have become a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/30/most-common-age-among-us-racial-ethnic-groups/">larger part of the population</a> and at least since the 1960 have had a more sensible (Keynesian 15 hour work week) view of work leisure balance. </p><p>Marriage: The most obvious reason for fall in marriage/rise single motherhood stands, women have better options now than staying with less desirable men.</p><p>I was talking to group of committed Christians recently and I mentioned that today if a girl gets pregnant people say she not make a second mistake, and surprisingly to me, they agreed that shoe shouldn't.</p><p>Even very religious people want their daughters to go to college, and not just to meat a nice husband but to build a career.</p><p>Deaths of despair: <a href=" https://un-thought.blogspot.com/2017/09/angus-deaton-deaths-of-despair.html">Deaths of despair is IMHO a myth</a>. While it's true that WV was number one in opioid deaths New Hampshire was number two. We should admit that some people really love to get high, some more that life itself. Robin Hanson has noted that drug <a href="https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1187148972630118401?s=20&t=qjcDNhkU7GUQMyNlU1pBhg">overdoes deaths have doubled</a> each decade at least since 1970 and maybe 1940.</p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-83583873241275012682022-09-16T11:09:00.000-07:002022-09-16T11:09:09.193-07:00James Kwak - Economism Should We Let Lawyers Run the Economy<div class="css-1dbjc4n r-16y2uox r-1wbh5a2 r-1ny4l3l" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex: 1; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 auto; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: row; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1iusvr4 r-16y2uox r-1777fci r-kzbkwu" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex: 1; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-pack: center; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 0 0px; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__t94f4jyrqp" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Law professor James Kwak coined the term economism, contending that economists have too much influence in policy. </span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__t94f4jyrqp" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Economists who study interaction between supply and demand warned us that the legal (lawyer) method to suppression drug use wouldn't. Same with rent control</span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__t94f4jyrqp" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
But you attack "economism",rather than an NIT/UBI just make it illegal to work for less that $x and it'll will work.</span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__t94f4jyrqp" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__t94f4jyrqp" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kwak's attack on economists and "economism" says let's not go with people who study the economic trade offs but use the legal approach and just make what we don't want illegal. Make illegal to sell for less or more or at all. Not a good idea IMHO.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-11102853446953639642022-09-15T10:43:00.002-07:002022-09-15T10:43:46.525-07:00More on Student Debt Forgiveness<p>This is in response to the discussion <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Bu3Uccphg">here</a> of student loan forgiveness.</p><p>From <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2000/2000169.pdf">here</a>:</p><p>"Most low-income students attending full time, full year (86 percent) received some financial aid, and the average amount received by low-income students (calculated including those with no aid) was about $6,100."</p><p>So why not:</p><p> - Keep and maybe increase Financial aid.</p><p> - Prosecute lenders and schools that commit fraud.</p><p> - Get the government completely out of the lending business.</p><p> - Probably too many students are going to college reduce the acceptance rates to state schools.</p><p>BTW the trades do not always require any schooling beyond high school and can be very lucrative. It's often much more lucrative to be one of the smartest plumbers around, who can run a business, than an average person in a job that requires a college degree. </p><p>Also, tuition rates in state schools is a state issue but with more financial aid maybe it should be higher, that is the affluent should pay the full costs of college, which BTW are <a href="https://un-thought.blogspot.com/2019/06/am-i-reading-this-right.html">amazingly high</a>. Spending on college by states and students can and should be cut. Florida spends much less per student year than most states and so there is a model to follow.</p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-2584013188666744802022-09-06T12:29:00.006-07:002022-09-06T12:29:57.679-07:00Social Security Beginnings <p>Links:</p><p><a href="https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/why-is-social-security-regressive">Why Is Social Security Regressive</a> by Chris Pope.</p><p><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/social-security-medicare-and-the-twilight-of-social-insurance">The Twilight of Social Insurance</a> also by Chris Pope</p><p>Both discus the beginnings of Social Security and how we arrived at the odd structure.</p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-69486344034754235672022-09-06T12:25:00.000-07:002022-09-06T12:25:28.677-07:00Some States spend Double what other state spend without noticeable Differences<p style="text-align: left;">Some states:<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Look at Florida in figure 10 <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2019/10/two-decades-of-change-in-federal-and-state-higher-education-funding">here</a>, for education. Maybe more state governments should follow Florida's example.</p><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e;">Across US states, the min prison cost is in Alabama at $14K/yr, max is New York at $69K/yr. Do you doubt that the NY ones are nicer <a href="https://www.vera.org/publications/price-of-prisons-2015-state-spending-trends/price-of-prisons-2015-state-spending-trends/price-of-prisons-2015-state-spending-trends-prison-spending">here</a>? I really do not know how much worse it is in prisoon in Alabama verses New York.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span>Some state data on recidivism <a href="https://bja.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh186/files/Publications/CSG_StatesRecidivismReduction.pdf">here</a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-33477289475655962022-08-31T07:21:00.001-07:002022-08-31T07:21:39.886-07:00College Loan Forgiveness<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather, serif;">Before they Biden administration enacted loan forgiveness, I had been asking people if they'd take this deal:</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 16px; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.73; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; word-break: break-word;">Forgive $10K in college debt but with the agreement that congress starts to phase out the loan program by capping the money lent to say $5k/yr/student and lowering the cap by $1k every 4 years.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 16px; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.73; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; word-break: break-word;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Plus no loans to students studying low demand majors</li><li>And no more loans for private schools except those in the top 200 colleges/Universities in post school job prospects?</li><li>Then maybe once all loans are private and disposable in bankruptcy no one will lend 18 years old so much for college</li><li>Then maybe colleges would reduce spending and lower tuition</li><li>Then maybe fewer marginal students will go to college</li><li>Then maybe culture will change and students will live 4 to a room</li></ul><div>I think that would have been a reasonable compromise.</div><p></p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-64731859899910941762022-06-01T06:03:00.007-07:002022-06-01T06:03:58.948-07:00Has the World Passed “Peak Agricultural Land”<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big news and it's good news for nature lovers here: </span></span></p><p><a href="https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/06/has-the-world-passed-peak-agricultural-land.html"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Has the world passed “peak agricultural land”?</span></a></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="1ohth" data-offset-key="1ni4e-0-0" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1ni4e-0-0" style="animation-name: none !important; direction: ltr; position: relative; transition-property: none !important;"><span data-offset-key="1ni4e-2-0" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Even if we are not past it we are will soon. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Worldwide per acre yields have been growing faster than world population for a long time now (maybe 30 years). And since the per acre yields are still multiple times higher in the developed countries there is still plenty of room for improvement even with much improvement via plant breeding and technology.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1ni4e-0-0" style="animation-name: none !important; direction: ltr; position: relative; transition-property: none !important;"><span data-offset-key="1ni4e-2-0" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="1ohth" data-offset-key="46u2o-0-0" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="46u2o-0-0" style="animation-name: none !important; direction: ltr; position: relative; transition-property: none !important;"><span data-offset-key="46u2o-0-0" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course as hunger becomes less of a problem obesity becomes more but that is a less bad problem to have.</span></span></div></div>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294000140149887671.post-1575213793212749562022-04-18T16:17:00.000-07:002022-04-18T16:17:42.907-07:00Easter<p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">between you and the woman,</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and between your offspring and hers;</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he will crush your head,</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and you will strike his heel.”</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Isa 52:13 See, my servant will act wisely he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. 14 Just as there were many who were appalled at him —his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness 15 so he will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For what they were not told, they will see, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and what they have not heard, they will understand.</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isa 53:1 Who has believed our message </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and like a root out of dry ground. </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Why are you so far from saving me,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">so far from my cries of anguish?</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">2 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">by night, but I find no rest. </p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">you are the one Israel praises.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">4 In you our ancestors put their trust;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">they trusted and you delivered them.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">5 To you they cried out and were saved;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">in you they trusted and were not put to shame.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like one from whom people hide their faces </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:1 6 But I am a worm and not a man,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isa 53:4 Surely he took up our pain </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and bore our suffering, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yet we considered him punished by God, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stricken by him, and afflicted. </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he was crushed for our iniquities; </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the punishment that brought us peace was on him, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and by his wounds we are healed.</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">each of us has turned to our own way; </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the Lord has laid on him </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the iniquity of us all.</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7 He was oppressed and afflicted, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yet he did not open his mouth; </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so he did not open his mouth.</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet who of his generation protested? </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For he was cut off from the land of the living; </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for the transgression of my people he was punished.</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and with the rich in his death, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">though he had done no violence, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nor was any deceit in his mouth.</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he will see his offspring and prolong his days,</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm and not a man,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">scorned by everyone, despised by the people.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:7 All who see me mock me;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">they hurl insults, shaking their heads.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:8 “He trusts in the Lord,” they say,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">“let the Lord rescue him.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Let him deliver him,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">since he delights in him.”</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:9 Yet you brought me out of the womb;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:10 From birth I was cast on you;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">from my mother’s womb you have been my God.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:11 Do not be far from me,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">for trouble is near</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">and there is no one to help.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:12 Many bulls surround me;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:13 Roaring lions that tear their prey</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">open their mouths wide against me.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:15 My mouth is dried up like a potsherd,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">you lay me in the dust of death.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:16 Dogs surround me,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">a pack of villains encircles me;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">they pierce my hands and my feet.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:17 All my bones are on display;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">people stare and gloat over me.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:18 They divide my clothes among them</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">and cast lots for my garment.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:19 But you, Lord, do not be far from me.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">You are my strength; come quickly to help me.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:20 Deliver me from the sword,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">my precious life from the power of the dogs.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22:21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">save me from the horns of the wild oxen.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isa 53:11 After he has suffered, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he will see the light of life and be satisfied; </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and he will bear their iniquities.</span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and he will divide the spoils with the strong, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because he poured out his life unto death, </span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and was numbered with the transgressors.</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For he bore the sin of many,</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and made intercession for the transgressors.</span></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">===========================================</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22: 22 I will declare your name to my people;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">in the assembly I will praise you.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22: 23 You who fear the Lord, praise him!</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22: 24 For he has not despised or scorned</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22: the suffering of the afflicted one;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">he has not hidden his face from him</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">but has listened to his cry for help.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22: 25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">before those who fear you I will fulfill my vows.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22: 26 The poor will eat and be satisfied;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">those who seek the Lord will praise him—</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">may your hearts live forever!</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22: 27 All the ends of the earth</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">will remember and turn to the Lord,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">and all the families of the nations</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">will bow down before him,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22: 28 for dominion belongs to the Lord</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">and he rules over the nations.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22: 29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">those who cannot keep themselves alive.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22: 30 Posterity will serve him;</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">future generations will be told about the Lord.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Psalm 22: 31 They will proclaim his righteousness,</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">declaring to a people yet unborn:</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">He has done it!</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">Matt 28: 1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;">5 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”</p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="line2" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 25px 0px 50px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p>JWOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.com0