Student loans are a way the US government redistributes income from the 99 to the 1 percent. Notice also that virtually all K-12 educational reform is geared toward turning the most IQ challenged children into university students. The complete process of student loans and educational reform are interrelated scams to redistribute income from the 99 to the 1 percent. The more students take out loans, and the more kids and parents feel pushed toward university educations, the richer Wall Street and its investors get.
Wall Street investment corporations purchase student loans, and then turn around and issue bonds based on the value of the government guaranteed student loans, meaning there is no risk for the rich investors who opt to purchase these bonds. These student loan transaction generate billions of dollars of income for Wall Street.
That’s one reason why the US government allowed student loan interest rates to double from 3.4 to 6.8 nearly two years ago. The rich investors of Wall Street benefited from this at the expense of the 99 percent.
There is another reason why the US government keeps this massive income redistribution scam going. Wall Street banks have invested billions of dollars into private, for profit, universities.
* ITT is 100 percent owned by Wall Street investment companies.
* The Apollo Group owns the University of Phoenix, among other private universities. JP Morgan, Citigroup, Barclays, Wells Fargo and Blackrock, among others, own 98 percent of the Apollo Group.
* Devry University is 100 percent owned by Bank of America, Barclays, BlackRock, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley, among other Wall Street Investment firms.
You can go on and on and the story is the same with respect to for-profit universities. Many of them are owned by Wall Street.
These universities target low income students, and charge several times more tuition than community colleges. Student loans amount to $32 billion in revenue a year for Wall Street owned private universities. That equals 25 percent of all student aid in the USA. The revenue generated by student loans provides up to 90 percent of annual income for Wall Street investment schools.
* In 2012, 88 percent of graduates left school with debt equal to almost $40,000 per student, which goes straight into the pockets of Wall Street investors.
* With interest, late fees, penalties, and collection fees assessed against students, the total cost of an education at these private schools is “can end up being more than double the cost of an education at Harvard University.
* 17 percent of revenue is spent on teaching, 19 percent goes to profits, and 23 percent does to marketing their bogus products.
* The average annual pay of a CEO at any of these corporate schools equals $7.3 million.
* The US Department of Education reports that 72 percent of private school graduates wind up in jobs that “average less pay than high school dropouts.” This may explain why corporate school college graduates represent only 13 percent of all college graduates, but they account for 47 percent of all loan defaults.
And these are only some of the reasons why student loans represent a nice income redistribution scam for the 1 percent at the expense of the 99 percent. Check out the link below for a story and interview about how one person decided, among many, decided it was in his best interest to default on his student loans.
why-this-man-defaulted-on-his-student-loans-and-suggests-others-do-the-same–Yahoo! News
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