"No Free Lunch" [i]

Takes New Meaning

On a first cursory glimpse at these two headlines on April 11, 2011 newspapers there might not seem to be any correlation “Student loan debt outpaced credit card debt for the first time last year and is likely to top a trillion dollars this year...”[ii] “Chicago… bans lunches brought from home.” [iii]

But on further reflection perhaps there’s a closer connections than what first meets the eye. Why has schooling become such an obsession in America? What can one learn in school that they can’t learn in life? Why do we have to have experts who have never seen the outside of their ivory towers dictating to your children (and you) what will and won’t work in your real world? Since when does academia know what you need to learn in order to be a productive and vital part of society and the economics of day to day living?

The problem here lies in understanding the difference between schooling and education. Schooling is what has happened in American since the first compulsory attendance laws were passed in 1852 by the Massachusetts theocrats who desired to keep others from educating their own children according to their own belief system. Notice the law was passed to force others not to educate? The law had nothing to do with teaching truth and everything to do with keeping truth from being elucidated…the base word from which education is derived from.

And from Massachusetts to the rest of the country the idea of schooling progressed until the lack of learning was propagated nationwide. Today we have a system of schools which spread propaganda rather than induce learning, which is the debating of old truths and the discovery of new insights.

Graduates today, of these ivory towers of academia, have been programmed to trust and respond rather than to question and learn. They have been desensitized to the point that they no longer can reason for themselves but heavily rely on the experts or dictators of society to tell them what is good and bad, right and wrong, progressive or oppressive…! These school graduates have been provided with a degree of brashness based on choosing between A or B without ever considering that there’s an alternative C to contemplate. And therefore instead of commencing from their days of schooling they arrive at that date full of arrogance and impotence, unable to achieve and produce but fully compliant and encoded to fill the multiple levels of mundane occupations that our schooled society has provided for them to fill but which, perhaps, robots might better be qualified to fulfill.

These selfsame graduates move through life without ever really living, but rather being consumed by the things which they are enticed to purchase, but which really only further empower those who are pulling their strings of existence. But even more damning than this is the fact that these masses are so well programed that they are easily mobilized to do the bidding of those who are in power without ever realizing that they are playing the hand of those who control them.

For example, consider tax rates. These schooled masses scream for higher tax rates on the wealthy without ever realizing that: “Federal tax collections have been between 15 and 20 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product every year since 1960. However, between 1960 and today, the top marginal tax rate has varied between 91 percent and 35 percent.” [iv] The rate really doesn’t make any difference on what the federal revenues are!

So why scream for higher tax rates on the wealthy… because tax rates “have a far greater impact on economic growth than federal revenues.”[v] And if economic growth is “too good” then those elitists who pull the strings of society would lose their control over you.

So keep spending all your money on schooling, keep allowing those institutions to put you perpetually into debt while they brain wash you and teach you what to spend your money on and what foods you can eat and what you can carry on your next airplane trip…! It won’t be long before you too are a good, well behaved, but programed member of society unable to create or sustain anything including your own wealth which you were designed to own and control in order to make this world a better place for everybody to live in.

On the other hand if you’d like to become elucidated to another way of living then get educated instead of schooled. Learn how to control your own money and create enduring wealth and prosperity by reading Prescription For Wealth, Why You Should (and can) Be Rich.[vi] Your options will be incredibly increased.

By Tomas McFie
Check out Dr. McFie's latest book Prescription For Wealth

[i] Quote taken from the late economist Milton Freedman
[ii] Burden of College Loans on Graduates Grows, New York Times, April 11, 2011
[iii]Chicago Times April 11, 2011
[iv] There aren’t enough rich people Walter E. William’s, 4-12-11 Syndicated Column
[v] Ibid
[vi] The book by Dr. Tomas McFie