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Resurrecting the American Dream

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Resurrecting the American Dream       24th of June, 2012
 

  Powers like Donald Bren’s Irvine Company in Orange County have killed the American Dream because he oppressively manipulates our society to have absolute power over it.  Philosopher Bentham famously quoted, "It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."  Dr. Spock similarly and now more famously quoted "the needs of the many
outweigh the needs of the few."  The United States was founded to uphold these values. 
Irvine Company causes dependency, makes one's greed more important than the mass needs, and thus killed the American Dream.  We must uphold our heritage that freed us from tyranny to resurrect ourselves and our American Dreams.
 

  This company was founded in theft from the start.  James Irvine I, a failed Gold Rush prospector, hurried to move his family from a San Francisco general store business to Southern California.  Evidence shows the move was likely due to larceny.  When Irvine returned to San Francisco years later, he was shot (First American Trust Company, 1963).  Before death, Irvine impeached U.S. Land Commission upheld ownership titles and continuously took Sepulveda, the rightful owner, to court so Sepulveda would spend all his money on foreign lawyers (since CA just became US).  Through this manipulation, Irvine stole land to make the Irvine Ranch.  While J. Irvine II redeemed his vengeance-assassinated father with good ethics for OC, now a tyrant, Bren, again controls the Company.
 

  The Irvine Company is a tyrant since through complete ownership it has total control and imposes dependency on the people – which is ILLEGAL.  Our political system has been corrupted and is bought out to represent money, not people.  A winning senate campaign's price is now $8.5 million and presidential elections cost up to $730 million (Gale, 2010).  In finding contributors, greed's interests become the main representation.  This makes it extremely difficult for the middle class to survive.  Campaign contributions continue as bribes for harmful social schemes.

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  Political Action Committees are a loophole to initiatives against corrupt politics and are used by Irvine Company and other plutocratic tyrants for social manipulation.  A PAC is defined as "a committee formed by business, labor, or other interest groups to raise money and make contributions to campaigns of political candidates they support."  Since PACs are gangs of monopolies only caring about their greed, their exclusive money makes monopolies claim ownership over political speech.  In contrast the majority cannot afford political speech’s cost so our First Amendment Freedom of Speech Right is usurped.
 

Monopoly's controls by PACs make politicians dependent on contributions businesses illegally turn into bribes and blackmail.  Business schemes are paid for and bought without public awareness and without politicians knowing what is going on.  The "Fast and Furious" induced-debacle is an example of illegal business manipulations of government.  In the meantime, Congress has paid off bull manure hearings on steroids. 
 

  The real issues like defending the people against corrupt interests, making constitutionally guaranteed due process for immigrant refugees, and stopping public exploitation are not addressed.  Real representation of all members will allow us to make necessary liberation changes.  Congressional negligence forces (Friendly, 1984: 245) government branches to use judicial and executive Responsibility.
 

  Irvine Company’s public takeover leads to negative impacts.  Positive developmental changes are not allowed because they do not fit in to the tyranny’s “Master Plan.”  As a City of Tustin Civil Engineer recently related to me in 2012 fieldwork, he and advancement developers concluded great benefits in turning the old El Toro Military Base into Orange County's own International Airport (John, 2012). 
 

  This would put OC on the map for international growth and development, build industry, and allow others to collaborate in Orange County social power.  Yet, plane noise would impede Irvine CO. house sales and make for open, equal power so the Co. pays huge money to slander our development.
 

  Also, Irvine Co. uses public money for its own desires over the consensus’ needs.  For example, “$7.7” million was paid to fund expansion of the already relatively new Alton Parkway in I.C.’s Lake Forest (Ritchie, 2012). In order to perform the unnecessary road work to connect a prison, public transportation had to be cut.  Due to cuts in Orange County - sixth most populace county in the nation (Ruane, 2011) riders often wait over an hour for one bus on main streets during peak times (ie: Euclid Ave).
 

  Inside information I learned from an OCTA driver is that schemes were enacted to make these cuts seem legitimate.  The oldest drivers were promoted to South County routes for a few months, with few passengers and big freeways and then were demoted back to routes with overcrowded buses, with much traffic, and with delayed trips (OCTA, 2012).
 

  "Too old for this s***," drivers demoted in schemes from their "promotions" retired for pensions in frustration.  This "forced" OCTA to lay off many drivers despite its nationally highest public transportation fares.  This discourages public transportation so people buy the Irvine Company standard of private cars.
Other examples of monopoly social control are found in monopoly takeover of Public Education.  The University of California was set up as a corporation in the State Constitution Article IX Section 9 and The University of California's Mission Statement is to teach, research, and provide public service to "All and help create an educated workforce that keeps California competitive" (UniversityofCalifornia.edu).  Regents making decisions are to be "broadly reflective" of Californian populace diversity.  As such, regents should make educational decisions to promote all backgrounds and economic situations.
 

  Now, the Irvine Company who the regents of the University of California work for are not doing as our constitution mandated to invest in didactic state development.  Many of the regents are realtors – including Irvine Company representative Shillings.  They make University of California’s focus real estate.  This turns our highest public institution into a resort for rich kids after high school so the Irvine Company and other investors make money off the public through outrageous mandatory housing prices.
 

  These realtor regents joined other regents of greed to privatize our public institution.  They focus on "the experience" students will get instead of on education.  Although many of our populace cannot afford these ‘resorts’, they have become mandatory for many jobs.  Do regents even care about education?  Higher education's focus is now to build Irvine Company's auxiliary investing pocketbooks.
 

  I interviewed a Swedish UCI exchange student.  In Sweden he has a better education learning to build his country’s economy and he and other students are paid to study.  Here, professors are not even allowed time to really teach for Andres' and other students’ academic detriment.  As I learned from my professors at UC Santa Cruz they must write for yearly book quotas instead of focus on teaching so that regents make more money; and "everyone is completely milked for the real estate" (Andres, 2012). 
 

  I also learned from a Taiwanese immigrant who related her distress of CA education divestment.  She is afraid of how most students at the university her son just began at are Chinese exchange students.  (Lili, 2012).  Even the Policy for International Trade in California admits we need to provide California’s populace knowledge and skills necessary to compete in the global economy (1987).  Where are our kids?  Why are we focusing on building members of other countries' global economies?
 

  It is because Irvine Company investors make more money off international student admission so encourage these over our own youth.  Now, international students are nearly the only able to afford huge prices.  We therefore build foreign people's skills to take back to their countries.  Although we have trade agreements with China who now has people better able to afford our international education over US paying public prices, they will not utilize the knowledge taught in our schools towards U.S.A.'s advancement.
 

  What institutionalization, then, is Irvine Company and main CA investors most investing in for US if not in education?  They invest in the prison system.  In comparison to the state of California paying $8,667 per student per year, the 47th lowest in the nation (toped.svefoundation.org), it on average pays $47,102 per prisoner, per year - paid to private investors (www.lao.ca.gov ).  These investors are the same for both public real estate institutions of prison and of education as is the definition of monopoly.  Greedy people in charge of public development do not care about US; only for their own greed.
 

  This evidences that the Irvine Company and other greedy investors invest in socialization of a criminal culture because it’s more “profitable”.  This investment makes self-fulfilling prophesies of crime (Haney, 2006: 94; 177-179). Prison institution of our future leads to a police state social dependency where those not giving in to give up American Dreams have little choice but institutionalization to a cell.  People are demonized after labeled as prisoners and often remain criminals for the rest of their lives considered by others “without hope”.  This investment in badness will lead to detrimental outcomes.
 

  The American Dream has now almost completely died.  No longer can an individual dream, be educated to develop for personal success, and utilize personal ingenuity to prosper on his or her own.  Now, for someone to succeed he or she must sell out to the monopoly.  Even "successful" sellouts pay the price for the irvine compay(not even worthy of capital letters)’s social control – which is expensive and developmentally impeding.  As his evil dips into personal luxury funds no one else can afford, he taxes in rent and retaliation to make it back for more social control to make the majority’s lives harder.  Tyranny must be stopped.
 

  In this stopping of tyranny, the American Dream Will Be Resurrected!  We must enforce our constitutional laws written by our forefathers to free ourselves from tyranny.  Then we will be able to suffocate the oppressive irvine company so everyone has opportunity to independently make success.  By exposing and stopping tyranny we will resurrect our United States of Freedom for American Dreams.

 

 

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