Dr. Lane’s Thoughts XXVIII

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1) Betsy DeVos resigned from the Trump administration “bravely”(?) with 13 days to go before it is over – a hypocrite of such oily loathsomeness that in comparison the Costra Nostra would be just a few businessmen concerned about your well-being.

Betsy DeVos is a rich, privileged woman chosen to be Education Secretary (a cabinet-level position with Trump) only because she was Erik Prince’s sister.  Who is Erik Prince? Erik Prince was the founder of Blackwater (now Academi) – a paramilitary mercenary organization favored by Trump which was basically a private military-for-hire.  [I can only guess that he thinks that they are “cool”.]  She was unusually unqualified in a cabinet role for Trump who was known to favor highly unqualified people to serve him in important positions – for Trump it was loyalty over education, training, or knowledge of the post to put a person in charge of.  To be worst than the usual idiots he chose for these cabinet posts is a low bar to not be able to jump over.  

Her only connection to having an actual education of her own was a BA in education economics from an unknown private school called Calvin College in 1979.  Calvin College, as of 2021, is noted for having a very high acceptance rate (79%) and a very low graduation rate (65%) which typically indicates a poor-quality college.  Any other school with such poor credentials would be closed based on their performance.

What is a degree in education economics?  I cannot figure it out. You are not a teacher, or an administrator; you do not impact on students or learning. What does the degree do?  What is it used for?  It seems DeVos found a way to have it pay off – chasing students with student loans to force repayment.  Not just any students but students with useless degrees that Betsy DeVos also funded  – she had investments in the for-profit schools that they got those degrees from!

Ms. DeVos is the wife of the son of the founder of Amway which meant she is a billionaire through her husband.  She had only one interest in her role as Education Secretary – keeping for-profit educational institutions out of legal trouble and easing their enormous debts for their role in bankrupting gullible students with student loan debts and useless educations.  She had bankrolled several of these schools such as Laureate Education—a private for-profit college operator.

She also has a financial stake in a company that, until recently, held a lucrative contract from the U.S. Department of Education to pursue the loans of defaulted student borrowers. DeVos has money in Apollo Investment Corp., which currently has investments in Delta Educational Systems Inc., a company that operates several dozen private for-profit college campuses. According to a spreadsheet of the first official gainful employment results from the Office of Federal Student Aid, Delta has 40 programs at risk of losing access to federal financial aid under the gainful employment regulation. Moreover, Delta also has accreditation through ACICS.

ACICS (Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools) is known principally for accrediting Reagan National University (formerly Si Tanka University) – an accredited institution of higher education in Sioux Falls, South Dakota – which does not exist, and has no students, faculty or classrooms. It may be a visa mill.  It is only two rooms in a building with no people inside, though it has a website showing a campus, lists of classes with professors assigned, a financial aid office, and student population  – all of which were fake. 

The ‘school’ was accredited by the ACICS – a disreputable organization with a history of accrediting fake schools.  Attempts were made to shut down ACICS but were rebuffed by DeVos.  To be accredited by ACICS it had to be viewed during a site visit and would have spent years of submitting paperwork to obtain credentialing.   Ms. DeVos has a great deal of explaining to do about how a disreputable organization approved a fake school!

While she had billions of dollars to spend from her husband, it would seem that she wanted to make her own money so she went into the usurious world of funding for-profit colleges to offer useless overpriced degrees paid for though US government student loans and then funded companies to chase those same students to get the money back!

She fought against dismissing student loan debt for all students in the US and made this clear in her farewell letter of Early January 2021 upon resigning as Education Secretary in the last days of the Trump administration.  She quit only because of the storming of the Capital on January 6, 2021.

For someone this corrupt to resign from Trump’s administration because of ethical concerns is a joke.  It is like a skunk quitting a skunk-owned company because it strongly feels that the other skunks stink too much.

2) Concerning the attempt by followers of Trump to invade the US Capitol and possibly overthrow the government (they claim they were protesting the November election), no one summed it up better than Arnold Schwartzenegger, an immigrant to the US.  Please watch his remarks here:

3) There is a word being tossed around concerning Trump and his actions – the word “pardon”.  Many people believe that a pardon releases a person from the law for their actions.  No, it does not release a person from the law, it only releases them from the punishment.

A pardon is an admittance of guilt.  by accepting a pardon you have accepted that you are guilty of the crime you are being pardoned for; you are no longer going to be punished for that crime.  A pardon does not release the person from financial responsibility for their crime or reimbursement.

If Trump attempts to ‘self-pardon” himself (if this is possible, which is unknown) he is accepting that he committed a crime or would be convicted if he is tried before a court for a crime.

Innocent people do not request a pardon or expect one, especially proactively.

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