MANTIS REPORT

FRAUDULENT STUDENT LOANS

2012-02-29T18:17:00.000-05:00

When America was a bit more idealistic and prosperous country – her capitalism for a brief moment functioned. But now in an advanced age of cynicism, her brand of capitalism has nearly destroyed her. By her own acts, she deported her jobs in search of profits that has come home to roost by impoverishing her people. Yet under the direction of corrupt leaders, she continues, like a heroin addict, to push debts as the means to her American dream of a predictable, stable life; a home safe from the ravages of politics – now her nightmare. We are all slaves to the banks because they own everything including the government. With the model of favoritism, the bailout of banks prey upon homeowners stuck with deficiency judgments, credit card loans that people without adequate income are forced to take at usurious interests rates, and educational loans that have no real relationship to one’s ability to raise their income, both are near collapse; and still the government backs the few against the many.

Schools have sold students a college curiculum that claims to be a ticket to the promised land; but it’s all based on a promissory note to pay for a worthless scrap of paper that largely has nothing to do with an ability to perform a job. One does not need an MBA to be a successful entrepreneur. One can read a book and teach themselves. Information is a type of truth; and truth is free. But a system that tries to cage truth and sell it – that is usurious and unnatural. Rationally speaking, it’s cheaper with greater rates of social and individual returns for the government to invest in public education with open admissions, but high standards. Yet education is a model to achieve some form of social control when it’s more profitable to enslave people with debts to corporate overseers that have taken over the government plantation than to provide liberty and freedom from purchasing a bad education. But, these confidence men sell worthless paper, and most trained fools purchase mass produced degrees in mediocrity, "mental masturbation" which nobody will employ because its mostly impractical: e.g., crazy psychologist with fractured rational advice that won’t assuage ill rational feelings; ciphering economist who can’t predict tomorrow; unimaginative business gurus who can't make an investment that pays; “dummy” teachers in mediocrity who can't think outside the box, except inside a classroom of mind control; or writers who can’t see a world removed from this dimension and parrot its falsehoods as truth; and musical, artistic and theatrical types who can mimic, can't create, nor orchestrate without stifling unison. Everybody wants to be an artist, but we have become mostly “bull-shit artists,” without integrity in the pursuit of self importance because we cannot trust each others' words in manipulation of the same; and that is what the university teaches us to be –speakers of double speak in the credential arts of being a trained “bull-shit artist.”

How can people chained to debts hope to escape to the promised land when the reciprocal model of quality employment to pay back a debt, an investment, no longer exist – nor functions for the betterment of society? Besides, the spurned arts of vocations like plumbers, electricians, masons, carpenters and welders pay equally if not more so than an office job pushing paper. Unfortunately, in a class oriented society, everybody wants to be the boss wearing a tie – and that means a college degree; yet most college degrees are worthless – they teach no skills that can be put to use. When a young person earns a degree in political science – no one from the governor’s office calls them with a job offer; and why should they? Politics is more of an art form than science. Government funded education is meant for students and citizens to become shackled to a debt machine dependent upon bureaucratic forms of organizations that can be monitored for profits. Upon graduation, students are then further controlled by financing higher education enforced through threats of financial ruin: it is a form of both corporate and government welfare; and industry that engages in predatory lending is backed by the government regulations. There are no real choices, but options: for most feeling anxious about the future, they wanted guarantees of survival and their only choices were the deadly frauds of the military, the fraudulent debts of student loans of higher education, or a low paying job in retail sales and services of corporate America. The other option, the only hope for choices, is to be self employed and independent; but given the dependency training received in the school system that mind-set is increasingly rare – most opt for debts and taxes.

They were sold a bad bill of goods when they were defrauded into believing in the logic of employment being available, but now they worry that they will die as street people. But, the truth is, most of the world is homeless. That is why many battle the injustice of poverty; because it is a deadly indignity; an indignity enforced through the process server, the US Federal Marshal who is serving the citizen with civil papers from the government suing them for the inability to pay. Most student loans are held by young and middle age people. Many middle aged people returned to the university system and were forced further into debt as a means of survival. Many upon graduation look for a job that requires those credentials, but after years of searching with hundreds of reject letter and not one interview – many fade away and die a slow death. As a means of reeducating themselves, they had expectations of work - that is what the politicians claimed; but there is no work when crooks deported the jobs. Now, years after graduation, they stare state slavery and destitution in the face. But, that is another metaphysical lesson to master: the indignity of living failed lies of society which are imposed by usurious rationales inherited by a powerful few with no understanding of reality – though they preach it.

What is an entrapment are how the loans are written making it nearly impossible to get out of. It is a modern form of indentured servitude. Assets can be seized from spouses and debt can be passed along to family after a borrower’s death. The government in the past at least provided the hammer and the pile of rocks to pound; now they give you neither; Government expects one to find a pile of rubble (employment), and then shackle them with debts and taxes. If one defaults on this government underwritten loan, then their lives are ruined. In essence, we are slaves of state. Unfortunately, education became a mass produced product for sale; a product that is defective. What choice do we have here, but either confront the criminal negligence of state by not paying the loans; playing the game of manipulating the rule book to stay out of default; or emigrating to another society to sell your skills there. All this wasted energy; why can't society employ for the betterment of the villages the new crop of teachers, educated experts. Are they to be thrown out on the pile of trash; is that the ultimate outcome of unfettered industrialized capitalism?

If one owes a lot of money, in some sense they have power over the banks. In third world countries, there is more political awareness of the beneficiaries of debt schemes. In Mexico, there was the creation of debtor cartels that collectively forced the bankers to rethink – restructure loans that no longer could be paid back in full. In the land of the free and the brave, there is no movement to create debtor cartels in order to collectively default. If Americans banded together and collectively defaulted on loans – then the banker cartels would be disempowered – they would collapse. Now that America has been morally and financially bankrupted by capitalist ideology hijacked by the powerful and forced onto the powerless, perhaps this dire situation will be the firing pin to a revolution by the people against financial interests that have usurped democracy – interest that have bought-off politicians to look the other way – to force austerity measures upon the powerless who will suffer greatly with unemployment and even homelessness while the rich hide in their castles protected by the apparatus of the police state engaged in riot control as we see in the Greek crisis. What will rule? A dead object called money, or growling stomachs?

Before the rise of written history, the welfare of an entire village was the norm, but now that ethical practice has been abandoned for the vices of egoism at the expense of powerless people forced to eat the dung of the rise of professional careerists. Education is first about obligations, then a set of skills geared towards the time period; but now modern skills, of little use in old world, requires an education in the egoism of estate building at the expense of one’s personal psychology. The Occupy Wall Street movement by a new generation forced to survive by their wits, is a precursor of what is coming – a state of anarchy created by the immorality of a love of money over inherent feelings for the flesh and blood of another. Education geared towards an unquestioning acceptance of capitalist ideology as a religion of self worth, yet largely devoid of ethical practice or purpose has “dumb-down” most citizens whose formal education has become of little use. Unfortunately, most Americans are deficient in a political education; they continue to vote to cut their own throats when they vote for ideologues that preach the poisonous of religion hooked to notions of what is considered good and virtuous. It is a type of divide and conquer politics of the disintegrating class structure at war with itself. It is easier to blame the powerless as the problem – as those who the banks should have never loaned money too. If people could band together – then they could conquer the small, corrupt class above them as an enemy of goodness ; an enemy of humanity.

EXEMPLARS IN CORRUPTION

2012-02-20T16:31:00.000-05:00

We have a failed society because our leaders lead by their corrupt examples: i.e., stealing, lying, and state murder. How come as leaders there are never any bad guys? The Constitution written by aristocrats in the Eighteen Century saddled us with a document that has petrified the class structure of that time in history into the present. It is a document that has gotten in the way of democracy for each present generation. Checks and balances sold to people through civic classes, merely impedes the needs of the present; and this document is guaranteed to thwart democratic initiatives of future generations.

All politicians, be they democrat or republican are corrupt; corrupted by vanity of power – the ego – or they come out richer than when they went in. What is considered obvious corruption in most other societies, here it has been institutionalized by rule books written by accountants and lawyers. Once in a while, when things get to be too egregious, occasionally a politician or business man are sacrificed on the altar of piety where we pretend that we are not an exemplar case study for other leaders abroad in the science and art of how to obtain power by any means possible. If criminality and egoism are the means to power, then it is deadly power that is the means to a mythical end that we are a good people – and collectively – we are not. When Americans complain about corruption, they never seem willing to acknowledge the truth that their leaders are equally so. When American diplomats speak of corruption in other countries, they perhaps are accusing others of what their nation is? Is it not immoral to act as provocateurs to instigate civil wars abroad for financial interests in need of pillaging another society – yet cloaking it by dousing it with the odor of goodness – and calling it a “just war?” George Bush claimed that his war of Iraq was to bring democracy to that nation, yet he himself was able to corrupt democracy at home by being its enemy.

Porcine strutting egos - politicians go into power, they come out millionaires. They are a class of people that for the most part are lawyers that have never really had what most would consider a normal job. And it is this lack of normalcy, identifying with the common people, is why laws are written for the powerful and any legislation making society more tolerable are afterthoughts. When a small group of lawyers sleep in bed with money – the primary laws are on their behalf; and maybe a few laws that help out for the many – after there has been a bit of the protest around the idea of ethics. But in truth, laws made to control reactions against this oppressive paradigm, are what most have to live under while politicians and their clients escape them. The real “deadbeats” are those who make millions on government contracts which the impoverish taxpayer has to bear like an over laden mule; and yet those beneficiaries of corporate subsidies and protections lecture the poor on being lazy and stupid. Yet the truth its socialism for the wealthy through tax schemes and corporate subsidies and bare bones capitalism for the rest who are crushed by its inherent venality of “every rat for themselves;” something most are turned into.

Into every life a little rain must fall; and surely life is a trail of tears. When the Christian white man launched his colonization of the Americas, he did so with a bible, a gun and a bottle of whiskey. These three objects were brought to bear against a more authentic people – the red man and his earth based spirituality. Clearly their chiefs suffered along with their people as they were subjected to genocide by a gun, blessed by a bible, and any semblance of a conscience drowned in alcohol. In the Second World War, officers in the Pacific theatre suffered along with their own troops. Leadership was defined by sharing the suffering, not escaping it and leaving behind your people to suffer. Today, we can safely say that not one member of Congress, or a president, or a court justice suffer along with their people. They have elevated and insulated themselves from their own people which they treat like expendable objects of a budgetary spreadsheet because as George Bush stated – “money trumps peace.”

It has been asserted that George Bush is an international war criminal, but primarily he is a domestic terrorist that sacrificed the well being of the nation by legitimating crimes of state which required the harming of common people so a few could feel entitled to rule in opulence. He is the product of inherited power, not power earned through suffering along with his people. Apparently this president forgot about George Washington who suffered along with his troops; or Dwight Eisenhower who was a general of the old order, or John Kennedy, an officer who looked after his seamen, a man who actually served in a war with ordinary people when Bush can barely prove he did at all. But in all fairness to George Bush, neither Bill Clinton or Barack Obama had ever served, but directed others too fight in a war for resources – oil and minerals in Iraq and Afghanistan. How is it that George Bush spoke of volunteering for his wars, but his own daughters failed to do so? Yet in all fairness to the criminality of rendered by the Bush father son team, Bill Clinton built upon the foundations of that criminality when he deported the manufacturing base out of the US by finalizing George Bush’s NAFTA scheme; and without regard to rational policy making, he empowered the police state, and grew the business of the prison industrial complex at the expense of the powerless in need; and now Barack Obama that sold himself as an agent of change, an alternative to government corruption – but he too has not bothered to make a dent in the unchanged face of deadly hypocrisy. Why? Because both democrats and republicans alike are guilty of sacrificing the American people on the altar of money because money talks – merit walks. And still they lie to us and our children that merit counts more for birth rank and wealth.

With the exception of Jimmy Carter, we have been saddled with almost fifty years of incompetent or self serving, parasitic leadership. In the case of Jimmy Carter, we see republican leaders who evade responsibility for ruining the economy under eight years of the Bush regime and incredulously blaming Carter despite the five presidents since his administration. Rather than honest accountability, we see leaders always blaming someone or something despite their own misuse or incompetence in using power given to them by the electorate. Yet it is the same crowd in power that then blames the people for being too lazy and in need of guidance. What we have are corrupted leaders that lecture others how to live in austere times – they continue to live “high on the hog” with fat salaries, pensions and health insurance that the common people have to pay for but can’t get themselves. When presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy gave back their salaries and worked for a dollar a year – that was the conscience of wealthy men. But though George Bush comes from a corrupted family that profited as bankers for Hitler’s Nazis, and other rich presidents provided the role model, still he took the salary while always seeking to ideologically reigning in salary increases for others in need of it.

Perhaps it is merely endemic to the baby boomer generation to indulge themselves at the expense of others. At first, this hippie generation was idealistic, then they turned materialistic as the yuppies; now they have devolved into hypocrites that argue ideologies with forms of logic that previously threatened them during the unnecessary Vietnam War. What kind of egoistic leaders lecture others to buy health insurance when they get it provided to them by those who can’t afford to purchase a plan; what kind of leader lectures others to buy health insurance when they themselves can afford to purchase it? What kind of leadership do we have when wealthy types lecture others to “pull themselves up by the boot straps,” something most of them have never quite done themselves – nor would be strong enough to do so.

Today, our children have justifiable contempt for an older generation turned sour – turned bad. Yet they are powerless to affect change over society and themselves which the powerful demand they do so. Since we have lied, or deluded ourselves with unworkable, dehumanized rationales that we “push” upon them, they have reacted naturally to the unnatural through drug addiction driven by mental illness grown from hypocrisy. People are dying and those left behind suffer; when will people demand true accountability from leadership that has destroyed our society for the few and placed it into a pit that maybe too deep for most to climb out of? In other countries, leaders are tried and executed, but in America they retire them in comfort and then they build statues to themselves. It is morally bankrupt; and we now suffer their crimes. Yet now most people have been rendered stupid and weak – so they need a despotic leader. It too bad, because a corrupt strong man makes for a weak people, but a strong people don’t need a strong leader; and in these increasingly desperate times, more than ever, we need to be a strong people.