I didn't do any research, per se on Student Loans when I was young.
1. Because I never went to University or even matriculated full courses in community college.
I graduated high school in 1969 and proceeded to protest the Vietnam War at American Legion Posts, VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and public areas such as Court house squares.
2. Because I had also become a singer in classic rock groups as an income.
BUT....I did get drafted and had to report for a physical at the Syracuse NY military service facility.
I failed the physical but passed the written. I got out.
I did Not become an oligarchic soldier.
My point here is simple.
The "Draft" was done away with on January 27th 1973.
THIS is the reason that the US Empire lost its supply of human body cannon fodder.
And THIS is the reason the US Empire believes that education now is less important than dying for the cause of protecting Corporate profits in EVERY country outside of the US soil that the US Empire has military bases.
The last number I knew of those bases was between 600 and 800.
This is how the Corporatocracy works and will continue to work, as long as working American taxpayers are forced to pay for a military full spectrum dominance in this Global Industrial Complex.
We are prisoners of a Monetary system that literally OWNS our lives, womb to tomb...unless we're billionaires.
The Billionaires and the Banks, with their "Modern Money Mechanics" financial policy document, control the entire planet.
That control is all encompassing and they MUST have military dominance to protect their global profits.
No one wants a draft again. No one (I know) wants 'endless war'.
No one wants to be subjected to poverty, illness and starvation because they served in a military whose Govt will NOT take care of them.
But that's what we're faced with, as pawns in a system that will inevitably chew us up and spit us out into cemeteries and/or urns of ashes throughout this "land of the free".
I'm a ~boomer~ that does not begrudge ANY student whatever it costs to become educated.
Just do me a favor:
Endeavor to learn how to dismantle this Monetary system and search for a way to technologically make non-fossil fuel energy (zero-point energy), useful and FREE to every human on the planet.
"The "Draft" was done away with on January 27th 1973. THIS is the reason that the US Empire lost its supply of human body cannon fodder."
The draft was leaking, (ex: sock puppet Bush Jr. and his puppeteer Dick-head Chenny) but to a degree it forced the middle class to have stake in any war. The draft being done away with created a supply of cannon fodder, to remove the revulsion to body bags returning home, and as an added advantage it removed a large mass of educated, articulate white young men who might write and speak about the horror and who might more successfully work within the system to restrict the MIC. Instead, those young men found their career often dependent on the MIC backend instead.
Now the people who matter can watch the news with no fear, and even a perverse pleasure. It's why war porn sells so well on youtube, it's the thrill of Rome's colosseum for the modern age.
You are speaking my language, Rick, my fellow boomer. That's the exact topic of my book, How to Dismantle an Empire, which talks about those 800+ military bases and how we became pawns of the monetary system and how to get out of it. Change who our labor serves, to being the community rather than the bankers, and I believe the rest will come. We already have solutions and plenty of creativity but a system that actively suppresses whatever interferes with profits.
For me, it's not a matter of begrudging students education (and we should be clear that education, all you can eat, is already freely available in books and on the internet). What they pay an arm and a leg for is a degree, authorized by the powers-that-be, which has a curriculum that serves the corporatocracy.
If you're paying for teachers and buildings and administration, that's not free, it's taxpayer subsidized. So then you need to decide how much education anyone deserves, who's entitled to teach, what subjects you're willing to pay for, and who's qualified to take them. It leads to centralized control and a point where that student has to stop learning in order to work and pay for other people to learn.
In my system, I say that cheap is better than free because it puts the person in control of what they want to learn and from whom. It makes learning (with travel!) lifelong and subsidizes it equally for all people throughout their lifetimes, rather than concentrating it in four intensive years. Check it out if interested, and here's my book and an episode on building a new economic model:
I didn't do any research, per se on Student Loans when I was young.
1. Because I never went to University or even matriculated full courses in community college.
I graduated high school in 1969 and proceeded to protest the Vietnam War at American Legion Posts, VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and public areas such as Court house squares.
2. Because I had also become a singer in classic rock groups as an income.
BUT....I did get drafted and had to report for a physical at the Syracuse NY military service facility.
I failed the physical but passed the written. I got out.
I did Not become an oligarchic soldier.
My point here is simple.
The "Draft" was done away with on January 27th 1973.
THIS is the reason that the US Empire lost its supply of human body cannon fodder.
And THIS is the reason the US Empire believes that education now is less important than dying for the cause of protecting Corporate profits in EVERY country outside of the US soil that the US Empire has military bases.
The last number I knew of those bases was between 600 and 800.
This is how the Corporatocracy works and will continue to work, as long as working American taxpayers are forced to pay for a military full spectrum dominance in this Global Industrial Complex.
We are prisoners of a Monetary system that literally OWNS our lives, womb to tomb...unless we're billionaires.
The Billionaires and the Banks, with their "Modern Money Mechanics" financial policy document, control the entire planet.
That control is all encompassing and they MUST have military dominance to protect their global profits.
No one wants a draft again. No one (I know) wants 'endless war'.
No one wants to be subjected to poverty, illness and starvation because they served in a military whose Govt will NOT take care of them.
But that's what we're faced with, as pawns in a system that will inevitably chew us up and spit us out into cemeteries and/or urns of ashes throughout this "land of the free".
I'm a ~boomer~ that does not begrudge ANY student whatever it costs to become educated.
Just do me a favor:
Endeavor to learn how to dismantle this Monetary system and search for a way to technologically make non-fossil fuel energy (zero-point energy), useful and FREE to every human on the planet.
Please.
"We are prisoners of a Monetary system that literally OWNS our lives, womb to tomb...unless we're billionaires. "
... and all based on NOTHING - funny money. In some sense, this is poetic - a reflection of quantum mechanics in finance :P...
"The "Draft" was done away with on January 27th 1973. THIS is the reason that the US Empire lost its supply of human body cannon fodder."
The draft was leaking, (ex: sock puppet Bush Jr. and his puppeteer Dick-head Chenny) but to a degree it forced the middle class to have stake in any war. The draft being done away with created a supply of cannon fodder, to remove the revulsion to body bags returning home, and as an added advantage it removed a large mass of educated, articulate white young men who might write and speak about the horror and who might more successfully work within the system to restrict the MIC. Instead, those young men found their career often dependent on the MIC backend instead.
Now the people who matter can watch the news with no fear, and even a perverse pleasure. It's why war porn sells so well on youtube, it's the thrill of Rome's colosseum for the modern age.
You are speaking my language, Rick, my fellow boomer. That's the exact topic of my book, How to Dismantle an Empire, which talks about those 800+ military bases and how we became pawns of the monetary system and how to get out of it. Change who our labor serves, to being the community rather than the bankers, and I believe the rest will come. We already have solutions and plenty of creativity but a system that actively suppresses whatever interferes with profits.
For me, it's not a matter of begrudging students education (and we should be clear that education, all you can eat, is already freely available in books and on the internet). What they pay an arm and a leg for is a degree, authorized by the powers-that-be, which has a curriculum that serves the corporatocracy.
If you're paying for teachers and buildings and administration, that's not free, it's taxpayer subsidized. So then you need to decide how much education anyone deserves, who's entitled to teach, what subjects you're willing to pay for, and who's qualified to take them. It leads to centralized control and a point where that student has to stop learning in order to work and pay for other people to learn.
In my system, I say that cheap is better than free because it puts the person in control of what they want to learn and from whom. It makes learning (with travel!) lifelong and subsidizes it equally for all people throughout their lifetimes, rather than concentrating it in four intensive years. Check it out if interested, and here's my book and an episode on building a new economic model:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607/
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/build-a-new-model
Thank you for your reply and your offer.
☮️ 💜 ☯️ ♾️
Rick..