FREE COLLEGE FOR ALL – MY PAYFORWARD PLAN
I think college should be free for everyone. Yale, Stanford, USC, Long Beach City College, El Comino Community College and UNLV. Let everyone in. Why not? Schools have different tuitions due to the different learning experience they provide. In order to attract the top professors, the University must have the means to pay the instructor more than other schools. Professors look at the facility and how much money and effort they spend to accommodate a rich educational experience. So Universities compete for the best minds to teach there. The professors also chose schools to tout an advanced student-body. The more difficult the admissions process, the academically better the student-body is. Speaking from experience, every professor wants to teach tomorrow’s leaders, not tomorrow’s average person. That distinction determines the quality of the professor’s life’s work. Just as a college coach wants his players to go to the pros. Tuition for poor and lower middle class students are being paid or subsidized by taxes through State schools or government grants. Upper middle class and wealthy people have to pay tuition directly for their children and also other families students through taxes.
So how about colleges not charging tuition upfront, but charge a “payforward”, which is a percentage of lifetime earnings (LTEP) collected through the IRS tax process; but the money is routed directly to individules alma mater. For example, if the two colleges were free, which would you prefer: Read more
Mistrusters, Veterans & the booming Hippy-Yuppy
My father was born in 1913. When he was attempting to establish himself, the entire economy collapsed. If any of you were close to elders that lived through that era, one thing you should agree with is that those people had a different opinion, and mistrust of the U.S. banking system. Throughout my life, as I began to take an active roll in my father’s finances, I discovered he did not have a bank account. All of his money was kept in a safe in the floor of his closet. He bought his house in 1948 and paid it off by 1970. Read more
What Social contract have you signed?
REPUBLISHED FOR MY NEW HOMIES AT L.B. JORDAN HIGH MALE ACADEMY, GIVING BACK THE LOVE
As children we live in the freedom of wonder. All we do is a first for us. Taste, feel cold and hot. We learn. Our parents are our Universe, we shall be so lucky that they show us a broad universe of books, colors, shapes, science and adventure. We soon leave that behind to experience life out from under their wing. We step with false boldness in that we seek to cling to new found friends for comfort.
The freshman contract- As we begin to live for our new hormones our parents voices quickly fade as we replace them with voices of peers who accept us and give us a new sense of belonging and understanding. We sign a freshman contract that may tell us that purple hair, tattoos and Young Jeezy are cool. Talking about the blind leading the blind. This is the process of finding one’s self. A lot is riding on what contract we sign. Read more
Jermaine on 102.3 KJLH
I will be on “Real Talk” with Bishop Noel Jones Sunday’s at 10 pm.
Take a listen
Money Power Respect – Gold Oil Architecture
Blood diamond
Are your people rulers or slaves? There are two opportunities of wealth building and one inopportune option of meager existence:
1. Original asset discovery or creation.
2. Services to discovered/created original assets
3. A subset that does not create substantial wealth we will refer to as Non-Substantive Laggard deValued Employment (NSLVE), this term is to depict the opportunities of employment that feeds families and pays rents, yet rarely ensures wealth of future generations or purchases appreciating assets.
Once you discover the Original asset, you can then exploit it if you infuse intellectual capital, which is the intelligence to harness wealth from the asset. This is the Capitalistic race to the next best wave of wealth. The battle against this force of futuristic opportunity is the current wealth structure that tends to protect its market share by eliminating demand for alternative products and services. The best example of this is the oil industries resistance to alternative fuel sourcing. Read more
Institutional Racism against African-Americans no longer exist
Well woven within the fabric of American life is a thick thread of racism. We are a melting pot, no, a tossed salad of different cultures and ideologies layered with a dressing of supremacy complexes. So what. Individuals can not hold a people back. Every person has some adversity, even if it is laziness inbred by rich daddy giving me everything I’d ever want, or guilt because I never had to struggle. So regardless of the few people who stand in your way, you are not unique. If you have twice as many hurdles to jump, get to jumping.
The power to stop a targeted group lies within Institutional racism. Where there is a systematic rejection of opportunity. I will prove that this power does not exist as an adversary of African-Americans. Read more
Contemporary Economic Issues
Hello all, I will be teaching Econ 4 at Long Beach City College (Class #33633) this Spring. It is an On-line class so you can work from home at your own convenience. The course deals with the pressing economic issues of our times.
Topics will be: The current economic crisis, Obamanomics, the Environment, Crime, Drugs, Education, Poverty, Discrimination and Healthcare.
Join me in figuring this mess out.
http://www.lbcc.edu/onlineapplication.cfm
Complex game of Chess- Social Contracts II
Originally published 2/2/09 
I enjoyed the Super bowl at the home of my new friend Joe Blunt. He is African-American and his wife is not. Of the 20 people there, Joe, my wife and I were the only African-Americans. There were 3 children there; the first was a boy around 10 years old, as well as two girls around 6 years old. My wife and I were introduced to everyone there, including the children. The parents introduced their children and expected the children to greet us just as if they were 30 years old. I noticed how the children had many interactions with different individuals in the home.
At half time, we turned the TV down and the 10 year old was introduced from the back room. He appeared with a sheet of paper in his hand and he proceeded to begin a comedic monolog, sharing about 15 jokes, some where pretty funny. Read more
Ending Friendships – I just lost one
Lay with dogs, you will rise with fleas. Birds of a feather flock together.
“Your child is just running with the wrong crowd.” School counselors say this to the parents of all 8 kids to make the parents feel as if their child is not bad, but are influenced by “bad” kids. Yeah right.
If you think that peer pressure will influence you to make different decisions, you should be really careful in selecting your friends. Instead of choosing friends by their looks, status or commonalities, you may want to consider looking deeper at who they are and select people who are more like who you want to be tomorrow rather than who you are today. I’m not saying get too far out of your comfort zone, but if you are trying to move away from substance abuse, shallow or immoral activities and focus on being more financially, spiritually or intellectually successful, you may want to consider holding your friend selection to a higher standard.
You may need to cut people out of your life or at least out of your favorite 5 if they are holding your progress back. Often time’s people unintentionally do things to sabotage your goals; you may need to dump them out of your boat before you sink. Be careful, thoughtful and methodical with cleaning out your boat. This transition can be very trying in the short term, yet liberating in the long run. Friendships can be just as important as they can be debilitating. Some people’s seasons pass and you may need to grow beyond what they have to offer. Read more
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