Robin J. Elliott: Joint Ventures with the Prophet of Profit, Training, Strategic Alliances

I don’t have to go into any detail about the danger of expecting teachers or professors to be equipped to teach your child or young adult how to be successful in the real world – that’s like asking me to teach you how to fix your car – it will never run again. It’s like expecting your cat to catch a frisbee in the park, or a politician to tell you the truth. Instead, read what the genius H.L. Mencken wrote, and, if you agree, read on. If not, watch CNN for more socialist programming.

H. L. Mencken wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that “The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever pretensions of politicians, pedagogues other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.”

He wrote in New York Evening Mail, 23 Jan. 1918, “The average American college fails…to achieve its ostensible ends. One failure…of the colleges lies in their apparent incompetence to select and train a sufficient body of intelligent teachers. Their choice is commonly limited to second-raters, for a man who really knows a subject is seldom content to spend his lifetime teaching it: he wants to function in a more active and satisfying way, as all other living organisms want to function. There are, of course, occasional exceptions to this rule, but they are very rare, and none of them are to be found in the average college. The pedagogues there incarcerated are all inferior men – men who really know very little about the things they pretend to teach, and are too stupid or too indolent to acquire more. Being taught by them is roughly like being dosed in illness by third-year medical students.

The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be…next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?”

He also wrote, “Consider [the pedagogue] in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.”

And, “Every contribution to human progress on record has been made by some individual who differed sharply from the general, and was thus, almost ipso facto, superior to the general. Perhaps the palpably insane must be excepted here, but I can think of no others. Such exceptional individuals should be permitted, it seems to me, to enjoy every advantage that goes with their superiority, even when enjoying it deprives the general. They alone are of any significance to history. The rest are as negligible as the race of cockroaches, who have gone unchanged for a million years…”

OK, if you basically agree with Mencken, let’s proceed. A teacher cannot teach your kid how to make money. That’s like expecting a virgin to understand pregnancy, or Obama to know how to run a free, capitalist country. Only someone who has achieved something worthwhile in business more than once and has made and kept his money is qualified to teach young people how to make money. And if you think making lots of money isn’t important, you probably have no money, or you inherited or won or married what you’ve got. Or you’re a mystic who believes money is bad but secretly wish you had more of it.

There is an alternative to the option of turning the youth we love into submissive robots who work too hard for too little, who never have enough time or money to really think or question or challenge the status quo, and who live their lives in quiet desperation while they perpetuate the system and justify their mediocrity with silly, mystical myths and drown their honest questions in sport, drugs, and television. The solution is the right information, and it is available from Young DollarMakers. We teach young people from fourteen to forty how to be heroes, to make their dreams come true, to be free, and to be rich. Jump on board, if you like. Click Here for more information.

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

What is child abuse? Barbara Harris is a well known campaigner who adopted four drug-addicted babies and campaigns for government to make it illegal for drug addicts to breed. Most of those drug addicted babies go from foster home to foster home and 50% of them end up homeless at the age of eighteen. More information here.

When you hurt children, mess their futures up, give them bad information that will undermine their lives, or hurt their physical or emotional well being, you’re a child abuser. Someone who smokes around children is a child abuser. Someone who teaches children that they will burn forever in hell if they don’t accept a mythical imaginary friend, as a Catholic teacher told me when I was ten (my mom sorted him out, fortunately) is as much a child abuser as the priest who molests little boys.

If I persuade a child to make choices that I know will sabotage his financial future, I might as well be selling him fake Chinese silver or drugs. That is child abuse. How old does the child have to be? Eighteen? Child abuse is child abuse, even if those who wish to protect their jobs and those who have a vested interest in selling false information don’t agree. This is the response of government departments when Barbara Harris is invited to England to help stop druggies from reproducing.

When US army recruiters mislead children from poor families with false information to get them to join the army, they are abusing children. After all, they have a job to do and quotas to meet – they are salespeople. When teachers tell children that they need a good education in order to be successful and make money and be secure in today’s world, they are unknowingly abusing those children by giving them the wrong information. And when bank manages give information to children that guarantees they will always be in debt, they, too, are abusing children. The same goes for many college professors, who have never run a real business (or who failed in business and ended up teaching young people how to fail, too.) Would you rather have young people learn about money from Trump or Obama? Think about it.

The alternative is always available, however unpopular. When Port Coquitlam city officials made two young boys tear down their lemonade stand because they didn’t have the correct licenses, Young DollarMakers stepped up and issued them a check for $200 – the boys were simply trying to raise money for their soccer team. Young DollarMakers teaches young people from 14 to 40 how to become successful in the real world. They provide honest information that helps instead of hurts, so that the lies that kids are told by their teachers, preachers, and politicians (and bank managers) don’t hurt them.

If you care about the youth, you can sponsor underprivileged children to be properly trained and supported by other, successful young people in this organization for a mere $10 per month per child. This is not a charity or a not for profit organization – we are capitalists working in an increasingly socialist world, providing valuable information and preventing informational child abuse. For more information, e-mail me robin@dollarmakers.com

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

Have you ever spoken about a grand ideal, an exciting vision, a remarkable opportunity, and seen the eyes of your listener glaze over? How OLD was that sceptic? Have you ever bubbled over with excitement and enthusiasm about a project, and your listener responded by dumping a huge, figurative bucket of ice cold water over you? How OLD was that pessimist? How about the loser that responds to your optimism with a derogatory smile, a condescending chuckle, or worse, an excuse to escape your presence as soon as possible? How old was that one?

I’m fifty-seven years old, and although this is a generalization, the people in my life that make things happen, that are courageous, motivated, energetic, innovative, and enthusiastic about great new things, are usually under forty. I know that youth is an attitude, but it is usually found among young people. Most of them, in fact, are under thirty! They have confidence, audacity, creativity, and optimism on their side, unlike the worn-out old cynics, whose doubt is exceeded only by their egos. I don’t need wet blankets with no future to ridicule things they don’t even understand. So I invest in young people. They are our future, and their lives don’t revolve around the past and how smart they think they are.

Yesterday, I had a fascinating meeting with Dean Ponak, who, at 42, will never lose his youthful excitement about what is possible, and we discussed the future of the Internet and mobile devices. I love learning and taking advantage of early adopter opportunities. That’s why DollarMakers continues to prosper as others slide into the ditches along the road to the future – innovation, selectivity, and value – never-ending improvement and learning, with a strong team of young, vibrant people who share a common vision and enjoy the autonomy, purpose, and mastery afforded them through the DollarMakers Organization.

We only have one life, and we are limited to 24 hours a day. Don’t waste that on has-beens and losers. Invest in the up-and-coming youth of today, those with young attitudes, and those with exciting visions. I remember one man who suggested I cease to tell people that I was “excited” – ’nuff said. What will your life look like in ten years? Do you want to surround yourself with achievers and successful entrepreneurs, or with smelly old fogies who talk about their operations, their medicines, and their aches and pains all day long? My dad is 87, but he never got old. He is still thinking up inventions and looking for a publisher for his book. While his contemporaries are waiting to die, he’s still setting goals.

How can you hitch a ride on the exciting Youth Express to a wonderful, fulfilling future? How can you contribute massively from your experience and resources? This is the best investment you can make, and the return on your investment, both financial and psychological, is unlimited. Smart entrepreneurs and investors look for a good investment. HERE IT IS: Young DollarMakers. Sponsor, invest, jump on board – hitch your wagon to this rising star that has unlimited potential.

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

Our future is in the hands of our young people. We know that. Anyone who has read Malcolm Gladwell’s wonderful book, “Outliers” will be amazed at how important the input our young people receive is, and it has little to do with school funding, as most people think it has.

“The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that’s the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today? To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success – the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history – with a society that provides opportunities for all.”
- Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers).

If you knew that YOU had the ability to dramatically impact the lives and futures of specific young people, what would you do? There is a solution. Mr. Gladwell again: “Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don’t. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky – but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung…We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play – and by ‘we’ I mean society – in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.”

Young people need to learn the right things from the right (YOUNG) people – as early as possible. We have been fortunate to recruit and train an exceptional young leader who has put together a dynamic team of winners to create and run Young DollarMakers, including the powerful Freedom Tour seminar and ongoing support, education, and Membership.

You have the opportunity to sponsor ten young people to attend a Freedom Tour seminar for the dramatically discounted investment of only $500 fully inclusive, for all ten of them. (Twenty for $900). Yes, you can change the lives of young people that easily. (You can also sponsor their Memberships at a mere $10 per month per Student.) Leave a lasting legacy – it’s more affordable than you think.

And you will receive a letter from every Student you Sponsor – AFTER the event – to treasure forever.

For more information, please visit www.YoungDollarMakers.com and then contact Auret Esselen aesselen@yahoo.com or Jewel Tolentino aries_jewel3@yahoo.com

P.S. When I say “Youth” or “Young People”, I mean from 14 to 30.

Sincerely,
Robin J. Elliott
President,
Elliott Enterprises Inc. dba DollarMakers
www.DollarMakers.com