It's Labor Day!

September 3, 2018

Before one asks, no, this is not (to my knowledge) the celebration of women who go into labor, and IDK if any would actually want to celebrate that, but what do I know!

Honoring the labor, and showing support for unions, can be summed up with articles like this one:

"Placing blame, especially publicly, was part of a system of protecting the industrial bosses from having to deal with workers’ problems. More importantly, the system was structured to dehumanize workers. By erasing their human value, the worker was reduced to nothing more than a commodity, the same as the raw materials used in the factories. If a commodity was damaged or destroyed, it was discarded and forgotten. In industrial America, workers had no voice in the workplace. Public pressure was the enemy to the industrialist."

How sad is it, that any person would consider other people to be less than they are, Children of God? To place such little value on the lives mixes feelings of sadness and anger. What's worse is that today, there are those who think this is ok. Some seem to want to blame students for their out of control debt, when it is the unregulated for-profit businesses pretending to be schools, that "advise" students to undertake such financially hazardous decisions, when their only goal is to bring in obscene profits.

From what some students have told me, for-profit mills, such as The Arts Institute has students take out loans for everything! The only offer certain classes as certain timeframes. Sometimes, a student must be in classes during the morning, noon, or evening, and it switches up so much, that instead of getting work, or even federal work study, they instead have "creative loans," huge debts to pay for expenses while in school. That is insane. Moreso, when I've had more than a few students tell me that the schools get the loan money, and put it into a private bank. From there, they hold it there, so that the school can collect the interest. When you consider how many hundreds, if not thousands, of students just one campus may have, that's absolutely absurd! And yet, when it's clear the mills only care about ranking in the money, it's all the students' fault!

Similar was the housing crisis. Banks intentionally put people into bad mortgages that they knew the people couldn't afford. Then, crash the economy, have banks "too big to fail," foreclose on main street, and bail out wall street. Worse, BILLIONS of dollars--that US taxpayers are on the hook for--went to FOREIGN BANKS! Banks in Scotland and other parts of the UK, Belgium, and Japan, were bailed out at our expense. The Head of The Fed, at the time, couldn't even tell Congress which banks they were!

We must pray for God's Kingdom and deliverance!