Plunder and Deceit (23 page)

29
. Id.

30
. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, “Improper Payments for Evaluation and Management Services Cost Medicare Billions in 2010,” May 2014, p. 16,
http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-04-10-00181.pdf
.

31
. Id.; Charles Ornstein, “Medicare Overpays Billions for Office Visits, Patient Evaluations,” Pro Publica, May 28, 2014,
http://www.propublica.org/article/medicare-overpays-billions-for-office-visits-patient-evaluations
.

32
. Romina Boccia, Alison Acosta Fraser, and Emily Goff, “Federal Spending by the Numbers, 2013: Governmental Spending Trends in Graphics, Tables, and Key Points,” Heritage Foundation, August 20, 2013,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/08/federal-spending-by-the-numbers-2013
.

33
. 42 U.S.C. § 10891.

34
. 42 U.S.C. § 18022; Healthcare.gov, “Essential Health Benefits,”
https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/essential-health-benefits/
.

35
. Scott Gottlieb, “Health Plan Premiums Are Skyrocketing According to New Survey of 148 Insurance Brokers, with Delaware Up 100%, California 53%, Florida 37%, Pennsylvania 28%,”
Forbes
, April 7, 2014,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2014/04/07/health-plan-premiums-are-skyrocketing-according-to-new-survey-of-148-insurance-brokers-analysts-blame-obamacare/
.

36
. Amy Finkelstein, “The Cost of Coverage,”
Wall Street Journal
, February 28, 2007,
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/02/amy_finkelstein.html
.

37
. “What We're Learning: Reducing Inappropriate Emergency Department Use Requires Coordination with Primary Care,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, September 2013,
http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/issue_briefs/2013/rwjf407773
.

38
. Laura Ungar, “More patients flocking to ERs under Obamacare,” (Louisville, Ky.)
Courier-Journal
, June 8, 2014,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/08/more-patients-flocking-to-ers-under-obamacare/10173015/
.

39
. Merritt Hawkins, “2014 Survey: Physician Appointment Wait Times and Medicaid and Medicare Acceptance Rates,” p. 6,
http://www.merritthawkins.com/uploadedFiles/MerrittHawkins/Surveys/mha2014waitsurvPDF.pdf
.

40
. Id.

41
. Kelli Kennedy, “Obamacare Impacts Primary Care Doctor Shortage,” Associated Press, December 7, 2014.

42
. Sarah Kliff, “Romney's right: Obamacare cuts Medicare by $716 billion. Here's how,”
Washington Post
, August 14, 2012,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/08/14/romneys-right-obamacare-cuts-medicare-by-716-billion-heres-how/
.

43
. David Leonhardt, “After the Great Recession,”
New York Times
, May 3, 2009, MM36.

44
. 42 U.S.C. § 1395kkk.

45
. F. A. Hayek,
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents—The Definitive Edition
(The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Vol.  2), Bruce Caldwell, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2014), p. 114.

5. On Education

1
. Mark Dixon,
U.S. Census Bureau, Public Education Finances: 2012
, G12-CG-ASPEF, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D.C., p. 11,
http://www2.census.gov/govs/school/12f33pub.pdf
.

2
. “How much money does the United States spend on public elementary and secondary schools?” Fast Facts, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education,
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66
.

3
. Mark Dixon,
U.S. Census Bureau, Public Education Finances: 2012
, G12-CG-ASPEF, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D.C.,
http://www2.census.gov/govs/school/12f33pub.pdf
.

4
. Kathryn M. Doherty, Sandi Jacobs, and Martin F. Lueken,
Doing the Math on Teacher Pensions
, National Council on Teacher Quality, January 2015,
http://nctq.org/dmsView/Doing_the_Math
.

5
. The Digest of Education Statistics: 2012, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education,
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_605.10.asp
.

6
. Program for International Student Assessment, December 2013, “Selected Findings from PISA 2012,”
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pisa2012/index.asp
.

7
. Id.

8
. The term “education systems” is used here to differentiate individual systems within nations, as well as national systems.

9
. Program for International Student Assessment, December 2013, “Selected Findings from PISA 2012,”
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pisa2012/index.asp
.

10
. “2013 SAT Report on College and Career Readiness,” September 26, 2013, The College Board,
http://media.collegeboard.com/homeOrg/content/pdf/sat-report-college-career-readiness-2013.pdf
.

11
. Lindsey Burke, “Our National Report Card: No Education Progress Since 2009,” National Review Online, May 13, 2014,
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/377899/our-national-report-card-no-education-progress-2009-lindsey-burke
.

12
. 2013 Mathematics and Reading: Grade 12 Assessments, National Assessment of Educational Progress (“NAEP”), “Are the nation's twelfth-graders making progress in mathematics and reading?”
http://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading_math_g12_2013/#/
.

13
. Council on Foreign Relations, Joel I. Klein and Condoleezza Rice, Task Force Chairs,
U.S. Education Reform and National Security
, Independent Task Force Report No. 68, 2012, p. 9,
http://www.cfr.org/united-states/us-education-reform-national-security/p27618
.

14
. Andrew J. Coulson, “State Education Trends Academic Performance and Spending Over the Past 40 Years,” Policy Analysis, Cato Institute, March 18, 2014,
http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa746.pdf
.

15
. Id.

16
. Mike Antonucci, “The Long Reach of Teachers Unions, Education Next,” Fall 2010,
http://educationnext.org/files/ednext_20104_24.pdf
.

17
. “Firing tenured teachers: Our view,”
USA Today
, June 16, 2014,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/06/16/teacher-tenure-los-angeles-vergara-editorials-debates/10640909/
.

18
. The Pew Forum on Education Reform, “A Tribute to Al Shanker,” August 1993,
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/shankerpew_0.pdf
. Marcus Baram, “Is Teachers Union Scrubbing Al Shanker's Legacy?” Huffington Post, October 14, 2010,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/14/is-teachers-union-scrubbi_n_763029.html
.

19
. 
Vergara
v
. California
, No. BC484642 (Cal. Sup. Ct. L.A., tentative decision filed June 10, 2014),
http://studentsmatter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Tenative-Decision.pdf
.

20
. Id., p. 8.

21
. Id., p. 13.

22
. Scholastic Lesson Plan, “Multiculturalism and Diversity,”
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/multiculturalism-and-diversity
. Allie Bidwell, “Obama Wants Kids to Learn About Global Warming,”
U.S. News & World Report
, December 3, 2014,
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/12/03/obama-administration-to-launch-global-warming-education-initiative
. Adam B. Lerner, “AP U.S. History controversy becomes a debate on America,” Politico, February 21, 2015,
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/ap-us-history-controversy-becomes-a-debate-on-america-115381.html
.

23
. Claire Suddath, “Tossing the First Lady's Lunch,”
Bloomberg Business
, August 21, 2014,
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-08-21/school-districts-avoid-nutrition-rules-by-shunning-federal-funds
.

24
. “Fast Facts,” U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2013, Digest of Education Statistics, Chapter 3,
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76
.

25
. Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, November 2014,
http://www.newyorkfed.org/householdcredit/2014-q3/data/pdf/HHDC_2014Q3.pdf
.

26
. Ecreditdaily, “Student Loan Delinquencies Worse Than Previously Known; One-Third Late on Payments,” March 28, 2015,
http://ecreditdaily.com/2015/03/student-loan-delinquencies-worse-than-previously-known-one-third-late-on-payments/
.

27
. Richard Fry, Kim Parker, and Molly Rohal,
Young Adults, Student Debt and Economic Well-being
, Pew Research Center's Social and Demographic Trends Project, 2014, p. 4.

28
. Id., p. 5.

29
. Josh Zumbrun, “It Only Takes $10,400 to Be Richer Than Most Millennials,”
Wall Street Journal
, September 4, 2014,
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/09/04/it-only-takes-10400-to-be-richer-than-most-millennials/
; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, “2013 Survey of Consumer Finances,” October 20, 2014,
http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/scf/scfindex.htm
.

30
. “Top 20 Richest Colleges for 2013: The Biggest Endowments,” April 21, 2014, ThinkAdvisor.com,
http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2013/04/02/top-10-richest-colleges-for-2012the-biggest-endowm?page_all=1
.

31
. “U.S. Spotlight on Statistics: Back to College,” p. 7, “College and University Employment Increasing,” September 2010,
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/spotlight/2010/college/home.htm
.

32
. Id., p. 8.

33
. Id., p. 9.

34
. “Employer Costs for Employee Compensation—March 2014,” News Release, June 11, 2014, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor,
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf
.

35
. Andrew Martin, “Building a Showcase Campus, Using an I.O.U.,”
New York Times
, December 13, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/business/colleges-debt-falls-on-students-after-construction-binges.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
.

36
. Id.

37
. Id.

38
. Id.

39
. Michael Grunwald, “The College Loan Bombshell Hidden in the Budget,” Politico, February 5, 2015,
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/the-college-loan-bombshell-hidden-in-the-budget-114930.html#.VOyFMPm3SlI
.

40
. Id.

41
. Id.

42
. Scott Jaschik, “Moving Further to the Left,”
Inside Higher Education
, October 24, 2012,
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/24/survey-finds-professors-already-liberal-have-moved-further-left
.

43
. Id.

44
. Dalton Conley,
You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist
(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013).

45
. Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern,
Groupthink in Academia: Majoritarian Departmental Politics and the Professional Pyramid, Independent Review
, Spring 2009, p. 594.

46
. Id.

47
. 
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/13/liberal-speakers-dominate-college-commencements-says-conservative-group/
.

48
. Allan Bloom
, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), p. 380.

49
. Id., p. 382.

6. On Immigration

1
. Samuel P. Huntington,
Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 195.

2
. U.S. Census Bureau, “Statistic Abstract of the United States, Section 31, 20th Century Statistics, Immigration, by Leading Country or Region of Last Resident: 1901 to 1997,”
http://www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/99statab/sec31.pdf
.

3
. Id.

4
. The Honorable Jeff Sessions, “Immigration Handbook for the New Republican Majority,” January 2015,
http://www.sessions.senate.gov//files/16/77/39/f167739/public/_cache/files/67ae7163-6616-4023-a5c4-534c53e6fc26/immigration-primer-for-the-114th-congress.pdf
; Steve Camarota and Karen Zeigler, “All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants,” Center for Immigration Studies, June 2014,
http://cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/camarota-employment_0.pdf
(data derived and analyzed from U.S. Census Bureau data collected from 2009 to 2011).

5
. Jie Zong and Jeanne Batalova, “Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States,” Migration Policy Institute, February 26, 2015,
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states#Current
and Historical.

6
. Theodore H. White,
America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President 1956–1980
(New York: Warner, 1982).

7
. Mark R. Levin,
Liberty and Tyranny
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 151.

8
. The Honorable Jeff Sessions, “Immigration Handbook for The New Republican Majority,” January 2015,
http://www.sessions.senate.gov//files/16/77/39/f167739/public/_cache/files/67ae7163-6616-4023-a5c4-534c53e6fc26/immigration-primer-for-the-114th-congress.pdf
.