I see an economic diasater coming...

[triffid]

It is interesting that the so called “Captains of Industry” (also referred to as the “Robber Barons”) all lacked formal education. Even Bill Gates was a drop out who never finished a degree, yet he too funds education. Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate, never made it past third grade and others never finished grammar school. Yet, these were men who built major universities and constantly promoted the virtues of higher education. The traditional idea is that these men understood the advantages of being educated as opposed to their own experience of “learning the hard way”. However, it is far more likely they realized that without conformity to a system, others would soon realize the very same thing about success they had and this knowledge would increase the competition. There is an ancient story about a child full of promise, so intelligent, that his parents and teachers encouraged him to take an equal interest in anything that caught his eye, whenever he showed he was attracted to it. Years later, after having tried a hundred different arts and all the customary roads to success, he was penniless and miserable; so he decided to take a job. He found himself in the office of a billionaire whom he soon saw was fairly stupid and capable of understanding only one idea at a time. ‘You can have the job’ said the billionaire. ‘Thank you’ replied the brilliant man, ‘but I would like to ask you just one question’. ‘And what is that?’ ‘I have read a great deal about you; how you understand everything you see, and how your extraordinary energy and wide interests have made you what you are. But I don’t find you to be like that at all. Furthermore, I have tried since I was a child to be like that and â€" look at me. ‘Don’t take it to hard son’ replied the tycoon; ‘but billionaires like me pay people to write things like that. First, it flatters us; secondly, it ensures us a good supply of labor like yourself, people who never made the grade.’

[triffid]

When I was in grade school I noticed people didn't like to think for themselves.I noticed people felt good to have others think for them.I thought I had done well.Two college degrees,a job most of the time.Now at age 58 I realize most of my life has been spent trapped in the financial myths that keep 90% of us broke.At age 35 I learned a few things but those things didn't take me far enough.I was not a millionaire in spite of the knowledge I gained at age 35.I have learned more at ages 56-58 but still not how to have a million dollars.At age 58 most employers will not hire me prefering not to hire anyone over 50.So they have thrown me away.Like a used napklin.

[triffid]

I have learned to use real estate as a way to gain wealth and that to avoid stocks,bonds and mutual funds altogether.Maybe by age 66 I will be a millionaire.For now I am retired and no longer need a JOB to survive.I am learning once again to do things at my own pace and to think for myself.
www.lifestylesunlimited.com will be my mentor.And I want to start their program in 2 and 1/2 years.triffid

[the_big_m_in_ok]

Comment: The full passage reads: "The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever pretensions of politicians, pedagogues other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else."

Yes, exactly.  Another source of information I knew as a particular spiritual teacher said about the same thing:  Education either wants to make people stupid and compliant, or else piss students off so much they become revolutionaries and end up in prison or dead (read: Symbionese Liberation Army; KKK; Weather Underground; Stormfront.org; etc).

All these agenda-obsessed nitwits will learn what a mistake it is to perform kow-tows before arrogant oligarchs.

REEDIT LATER:
Back on topic,
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Home-sales-plunge-27-pct-to-apf-2949326144.html?x=0

As I said somewhere before, "Double dip?"
The "economic stimulus" only pumped up the deflating balloon 'bubble'.  Now that the money's not there, the balloon continues to deflate.  Double-dip, right?

--Lee

[X00013]

DJI is going down,down,down. I love it!!!!! You gotta love a home garden!! Fuckm they all deserve whats comn