When Resources Are Free

GI Bill being used to reimburse some very… interesting schools

Veterans can go to school and have significant portions of their tuition covered, allowing for an easier transition to civilian life.

Some of the schools which a small number of veterans are choosing, however, are rather outside the mainstream. (To say the least.) Reveal News has published the results of an investigation into non-accredited schools which receive GI Bill reimbursement funds from taxpayers and at least some of them are rather… questionable.

“Iraq War veteran David Rodriguez steps into a softly lit classroom at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, crosses his legs and sits on a pillow in front of an altar decorated with a rope, a model of a penis and a statue of a Hindu god.

Rodriguez, a retired Navy lieutenant commander who led an engineering battalion that dismantled roadside bombs, is here for a class on “sexual bodywork.” When instruction begins, he will join his classmates in practicing different forms of masturbation.”

I’m going to stop the excerpt there because it goes downhill pretty quickly into material we generally don’t publish here.

This is what conditions of r-selected free resource availability looks like. It goes on all over. I knew a guy with a medical condition. He could have bought the consumables he needed to manage the condition for about $20 per month, and that would have gotten him items that probably cost $3-4 wholesale from China, if even that. Instead he called a number he saw on TV promising free supplies. They took his Medicare and insurance info, and billed $1900 per month for a home healthcare visit, to deliver the $3-4 worth of stuff to his door.

It is, of course a small part of an entirely unsustainable system that is coming down.

Apocalypse cometh.