The Golden Years—Uncovering Ponzi II
If you liked what they did to the value of your real estate and American jobs, you are going to love what they did to your pension.
And, it’s gone.
Vanished into banksta bonuses just like the credit default swaps that paid them a hundred times the value of a defaulted mortgage.
Many who had pensions, both public and private, will discover that the money owed to retirees exceeds what is available to pay them. According to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, (PBGC), created to make sure retirees would get their money, they have a current shortfall of $245 billion.
They only insure 7% of the pensions and last year 147 pension plans failed, and it’s only starting.
For decades, Wall Street eyed the cash accumulating in pension funds and lusted for a way to get it. The problem was always the same, the number one goal of the fund manager is supposed to be to protect the principal first and foremost and accept the yield associated with that. And they did….until underfunding left them with far less principal than they needed to significantly grow the fund without taking bigger and bigger risks.
And, it’s gone.
For some reason there is a widely held myth that pension funds tend to earn a rate of return of 8%. Nothing could be further from the truth. That might be the goal of the fund managers and the expectation of the pension recipients but it isn’t reality.
The scenario is only rosy if the pension fund is fully funded and most are far from it.
In fact, nobody knows how far… except me. I did the math.
We know that the assets are substantially less than what will be needed to meet future obligations. We know that because everybody is talking about Pension Plan underfunding. What no one is talking about is the question of the real value of those so-called assets.
If you think that complex accounting rules exists for the purpose of financial transparency involving other people’s money, well, you would be wrong.
What’s more, according to the PBGC, “the accounting rules often conceal the short-term condition of funds for several years, by which time significant damage can be done, leaving the company with limited options”.
Under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, (GAAP), pension funds are easily able to disguise their true financial conditions by projecting future returns, (read that as making it up as they go along), and amortizing the losses over as long a timeline as they wish. Thus, they never appear to lose value…only money.
We do know that the 2008-2009 plunge resulted in the following losses:
- US and Foreign Stocks declining over 50%
- Commodities declining 67%
- Real Estate (REITs) declining 68%
These are among the options pension funds invest in as well as debt-backed bonds and derivatives.
Collectively, the total invested in derivatives alone is a whopping quadrillion or $1,000 trillion. This is a crater so big that there is not enough money or other things of value, $135 trillion, on the entire planet to ever come close to filling it.
The stock market is rife with counterfeit stock, there are more precious metal certificates than there is precious metal, and we don’t even know if our gold is still in Fort Knox.
The mortgage bonds are completely worthless and have no value at all. But, when it comes to pension funds, most of those losses have not been accounted for. Extend and pretend.
We know that the mortgage pools themselves were stuffed full of guaranteed to fail loans that were based on vastly inflated values, and loans that did not even exist or were pledged to other pools as well. Because this hasn’t fully imploded yet, the revaluation of the bonds has yet to occur.
Now, in order to cover these losses, which, while not acknowledged are well understood by the fund manager, riskier investments must be sought.
And, here is another one of those moral hazards that have suddenly started to pop up everywhere. It is inherent in the fund manager’s compensation scheme. Typically, they get two percent of the fund for managing the principal and twenty percent of the growth. So, while the fund manager’s compensation has unlimited upside in growth, the potential is severely constrained by the need for absolute security of the principal.
But, hey, pension fund managers are people too, right? Everyone else seemed to be getting rich, why not them?
Leave it to Wall Street to, in the words of Goldman Sachs Capo, Lloyd Blankfien, “do God’s work.” In they ride with the solution to the problem. Think, yeah, like a fucking Trojan Horse.
On the outside, it looked great. You want safety and security, look to the American home-mortgage with a historical default rate of just three tenths of one percent and a solid net return to the investor, and that’s almost too good to be true. And, it was.
Wall Street did not offer the pension funds the opportunity to actually participate in the mortgages, only the illusion. And, that is an important point. Instead, they offered the “convenience” of bonds backed, they claimed, by pools of these so called “Prime” loans.
In fact, most are backed by nothing at all. Don’t you just love it? Fraud is like murder, after you commit one the threshold drops pretty low. Everywhere along the Ponzi chain if they could turn an illegal profit by breaking the law, they did.
This wasn’t a mistake or an oversight. Section 2. of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement governing the pools of mortgages calls for the notes and mortgages or trust deeds to be properly assigned and endorsed and turned over to the custodian. That was an empty promise from inception.
The sworn depositions of MERS CEO R. K. Arnold and Bank of America V.P. Linda DeMartini prove that. The former swears they never intended to do the assignments, and the latter swears that the notes and deeds were never sent to the Custodian.
One of MERS correspondence with its members specifically says that MERS and MERS alone will determine the beneficiary after the Trustees sale.
That means that with absolute certainty, the party bringing the foreclosure is not the beneficiary because that is determined after the trustee’s sale. The beneficiary is not the party bringing the foreclosure because MERS has no idea who the Beneficiary is. No assignments, remember? The properties apparently are just distributed to members based on some sort of equity arrangement. This one goes to Chase; this one goes to Wells Fargo, and this one to B of A.
What else do you need to hear? Hey, Judge, here are two people who know, who can confirm that every robo-signed document is nothing but a forgery. Game, set, match.
The only purpose for which robo-signed documents are created is to commit fraud upon the court. Think about it. There is no other possible explanation for the existence of robo-signers other than to commit fraud upon the court when necessary.
Ninety-six percent of all fraudclosures go uncontested. Nobody thought they would get busted. Now it is too late to stop. All of the recent consent decrees against the servicers are being violated. But, the odds favor no punishment so why stop?
MERS and B of A employees said under oath that they didn’t intend to follow the law, and they didn’t follow the laws of New York governing the Trusts or the Pooling and Servicing Agreements they created in an attempt to make the whole thing appear real.
Who ya gonna believe? No one has contradicted ole’, R.K. but he was replaced by an old title guy. Talk about your unholy alliances. Watch for even more dirty deeds seeping out of MERS.
B of A came out quickly and said, basically, that moronic, lying little Linda doesn’t know her ass from two warm loaves of bread.
During her ten year career, she knew enough to achieve the following: She worked as Customer Service Representative; Supervisor; Trainer; Training Developer; Manager of Policies and Procedures Writers; Communications leader; Senior Team Leader; and at the time of the testimony, she was the number 3 Officer in Charge of the Litigation Unit.
Yup, sounds like a prevaricating nit-wit to me alright. Good thing they found out about her before she was there very long.
I ask again, who are you going to believe? Working for them must be about as much fun as doing business with them. Hey, Linda, how’d it feel when that bus rolled over you?
I cannot tell you how much I would like to bitch-slap that perse-lipped smirk off of Brian Moynihan’s gnarly Irish gob.
I’d settle for Lloyd Blankfien, though. I saw a recent picture of him along with a caption that he likes to play Blackjack and is a big fan of rapper 50 cent. Really?
Hey, Lloyd, recognize these lyrics from your fave?
“I got places to go, got people to see,
The penitentiary ain’t the place for me.
I’m warning you, do not tempt me.
I’ll run up and squeeze it, put a hole in ya, hole in ya.”
You should have listened carefully to the lyrics, Lloyd. You’ve tempted a lot of people. If you hear fast footsteps behind you, you just have to wonder. Am I about to make a lot of people’s day? Well don’t you, Lloyd?
A lot of gangstas have their own stories being told in rap so it got me thinking.
Okay, Lloyd, get your hip-hop head hummin’ and check these rhymes I busted just for you.
The bankstas all wanna’ be gangstas,
The gangstas all wanna’ rap.
The jocks all want to be rock stars
And the rock stars want to act.
The actors, they like to smoke that crack
Blankfien, he likes to play Blackjack
You’ll dig life behind bars
That’s all they do is play cards
You ripped all my homies cheese
Hid it somewhere in Belize
Brought my country to its knees
You like a bad disease.
You won’t get no fuckin’ pass
A Crip will cap your ass
You ain’t no bad-ass banksta
You nothin but a wanksta.
Don’ worry; I’m not quitting my day job. Or at least I wouldn’t if I had one. Where were we? Oh yeah, the mortgages.
Nobody cared about the mortgages and the notes. It was a side show. The mortgages were just a sort of window dressing to create the impression that there really was a good reason to hand over gobs of pensioner’s money to Wall Street. Obviously, there wasn’t.
To understand what was going on, you have to realize that the bonds and not the mortgages were the end game. You don’t really need actual borrowers to form a pool of mortgages and issue bonds. You only need borrowers if you intend for the loans to be paid off. They did not.
There were similar bonds issued for all types of debt. And tranching, counterparty swaps, MERS, were all created to conceal the fact that the same assets were used over and over again or, as in many cases, existed only in the mind of the perpetrators.
As was the case with Taylor, Bean and Whitaker, it was pointless to go seeking real borrowers when all you have to do is fabricate them.
Pension funds were prime targets for the phony bonds. Bankstas took the cash and simply kept it with no intention of ever paying it back. That is why the pools that contained the supposed mortgages had to default.
And, it’s gone.
They just made the payments on the bonds out of the stack of cash they kept and the new money rolling in until they could trigger the requisite defaults and collect on the insurance from AIG and others that we subsequently bailed out.
Consider this. Every loan originated for the purpose of pooling is identified by a “MIN” (Mortgage Identification Number) assigned by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems or MERS.
Curious that the number appears on the application before the loan is approved. Knowing that bankstas have been operating at a larceny level higher than anything previously seen in the history of crime, I take nothing these people do for granted. What might this suggest? Is this part of the crime or part of the cover-up? It’s both.
As early as 2002, demand for prime loans to pool far exceeded the supply and threatened the stream of cash pouring into Wall Street. This led to several crimes.
Among them, the creation of predatory loans intended to fail, inflated appraisals that would create false equity and ensure future strategic defaults, false representations of lending standards, and the creation of hundreds of thousands of loans without a real borrower.
Yep. As bad as those deadbeats are who only made their payments for three or more years or until their payment doubled and their home value dropped by half—what can possibly explain a borrower who never made any payments? There is an entire category of loans called “First Payment Defaults”.
And, it’s gone.
Who does that? Who gets a loan, moves in, and decides not to make the first payment?
Okay, there was a little street level fraud by some local gangs but the easiest place to do it is from the inside. Why make any payments on a loan that was created simply to default?
What is interesting about securitization fraud is the sheer amount of evidence. We have the documents created to establish the relationship between the investor and the Bankstas. We have the procedures they outlined to avoid taxation. We have the sullied titles. And now, we have the evidence that they never complied with any of it and never intended to.
There was a time when stuff like this was illegal and it is so easy to prove. The Bankstas own documents are all you need.
If this were a murder scene, blood would be splattered everywhere and there would be a clear video of the perpetrators carrying out the crime.
You might think that the Securities and Exchange Commission, those legal-eagles we pay to keep a self-regulating Wall Street in check, are putting in long nights, cataloging thousands of documents and methodically and painstakingly building their case.
Sadly, they are not. They are quietly biding their time until the statute of limitations runs out.
They fill their lonely, boring hours whacking-off to porn on their government issued computers. Are you angry yet? Am I beating this to death? Flogging a dead horse?
If you aren’t angry yet, you will be soon enough. Particularly, if you are a boomer.
There we were, a whole generation with the brass ring in sight. Flush with equity in stocks and real estate, portfolios of blue chips, bolstered by ERISA protected pensions, insured by the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation and maybe even a little Social Security. We were going to rock retirement like only boomers can do it.
And, it’s gone.
The bankstas beat us to it. Now they’re skiing in Gstaad and eating Caspian Beluga roe on toast points while we clip coupons and postpone our Golden Years indefinitely.
I’m a boomer, but I expect to have to work until I die. That wasn’t the plan. I had a good plan. Work hard. Build a business and create something that would sustain me and not leave me dependent on Social Security.
To that end, I invested in both real estate and the stock market. I wish I had known that the game was rigged and the books were cooked, but it is what it is.
And, it’s gone.
It isn’t so much that I wanted not to work, I just wanted a little more security. As it turns out, there isn’t much security outside of one’s own sense of adequacy and faith.
And, as we head into our Golden Years, we will need a lot of both.
Right now, every entity with a stake in financial services is doing its best to avoid a true accounting. The same deceptions employed to create economic doom are being trotted out to cover-up what I predict will be devastating for pension funds.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but no one else was going to tell you until it’s too late to do anything about it. I just thought you should know.
The video below is the briefest, simplest explanation of the financial crisis I have come across. It’s from Southpark. Enjoy!
George W. Mantor
The Real Estate Professor
Founder, American Foreclosure Resistance Movement
http://www.realtown.com/gwmantor/blog
http://www.gwmantor.hersid.com/
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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You may wish to check the presentation on this issue at http://www.njteapartycoalition.org/SystemicMortgageFraud.html
NJTPC has been telling people about this since early 2011
The pension funds gone , their full of debt , the debt that they are manufacturing to take what is left of our
measly S/S & medicare benefits . Which we boomers have paid into for 40 years plus . I think its a planned
golden parachute for that top 1 % who enriched themselves and now will devalue the dollar to keep us poor.
A few gazillionaires in every country making the rules . The debt b/s was good ole smoke & mirrors, to divert
attention from them, accumulating the gold,silver farms & every other commodity . Time to forget the petty differences and unite for the common wealth , not the 1% wealth ,first we take Manhattan and than we take Berlin . Last sentence from poet / singer Leonard Cohen .
Found this ,Florida governor Rick Scott was ceo of HCA/Columbia largest public fraud in history , and he is also connected to largest private financial fraud , little known case that beats Enron .
Wednesday, April 1, 2009, Prosecutors did not do their job! 2002-The largest private financial fraud case in our country’s history began to uncover itself back in 2002, and no one heard of it. Wonder why?
JPMorgan, Citi, Goldman, Merrill, Morgan were all involved in this scheme, for years and were found guilty of contributing to the largest financial fraud case in our history; the largest financial fraud case that just ended Dec 2008 and no one paid attention. Credit Suisse LLC is pending with litigation with its involvement in this case.. I think the only jailtime is one Credit Suise employee who was telling the truth to investigators .
The last trial for this case, even after the CEO stood trial was James K Happ. The ONE AND ONLY acquittal James K Happ! It was asset backed securities in CDO’s like the mortgages in the MBS they never existed in CDO .
December 18, 2008 – THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH By Jodi Andes –Prosecutors’ case fell short, juror says, instead, they were more a belief that federal prosecutors had not done their job…
The SEC places Happ as CFO of Columbia Homecare prior to arriving at NCFE. The years Happ was at NCFE were what the trial was focused on. Guess what James K Happ did as CFO at Columbia? He used NCFE to finance HCA’s losing asset-homecare into a dumping ground, Medshares Inc in Memphis financed by NCFE. All the while Medshares was under multiple investigations for Medicare Medicaid fraud. Yet no one has heard of this case.Happ is CFO @ HCA while Rick Scott is CEO . First we take Tally and then………..
They are taking out America.This is all Treason.
Good article. Thank you!
I decided to investigate the trust our mortgage was put in. Supposedly was a DE entity. I provided the SEC#, tax id#, etc. Well, two people researched this at the State of DE’s Corp Division after I had no success in an entity search. Turns out – no record. Hmmm, how can an entity own my mortgage and try to sue me when it doesn’t exist?
Oops…that darn trustee never did file an assignment either. How can they have legal standing as to ownership? They have nothing.
So, I found it interesting that just in the past several weeks, the Attorney Generals of NY and DE have opened investigations into all of these trusts that are in NY and DE and hmmmm, they don’t seem to exist AND they are looking into the mess they’ve made of documentation, etc. — such as trustees for the trusts that didn’t do what they were supposed to do in terms of actually following the steps to get the mortgages into the trusts.
*POOF”
Did you hear that? That mortgage of mine (and yours, quite likely) has disappeared into thin air….
Google the investigations. I just emailed the AG’s office in DE with my trust info along with data from his state’s own corp division (no such trust exists despite being listed as a DE entity). I’ve respectfully asked that his office look into this one as well.
Keep fighting,
Beth
I think they are all hiding in one big UNSECURED GLOBAL TRUST…..HSBC RBS’s……..that is what I have uncovered. They don’t own your loan though and they never did.
I have done these searches also in Indiana with the Secretary of State Corporate Division and the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions (or whatever) an US BANK and BANCORP were not registered and it was explained to me by personnel at these offices, that these national financial institutions are governed under United States Code Law which supercedes or over rides state law, even though state law does not state any exception and that all foreign corporations doing business must register. When they are not registered in the state it makes it very hard to serve process on them when you file a lawsuit and they do not have a registered agent on record and have thousands of offices around the country to sort out where to send the complaint.
LOL, THIS VIDEO IS GREAT….SOUTH PARK IS ALWAYS SO BRILLIANT…Anyybody ever see the episode where legal marijuana was going to be made legal…..it is hilarious!!!! You can probably Google it…..More proof that we are living in a FASCIST TYRANNY!!!!!!!
Every week the dollar buys less and less. This is pure evil…..When the new austerity measures kick in I can believe what LaRouche says the bodies will be piling up in the streets….The link card which too many are using to get buy on because they cannot find work is becoming more and more worthless every week……….I have heard that people who have been on the link card for a while, have had the amount they get reduced and they are also reducing the lieheap money for those who can’t make the monthly utilities……There is PURE EVIL BEHIND THIS…….
1vent…my eyes are bleary so I hope I spell correctly…this is surreal,has been for years;the”housing crisis” seems to be the banksta’s Coup(again)…what do you mean by the term’linkcard’,I think I understand but not certain…it has been 4 months since my very PT j.o.b. ended;there is no gas in my car!!my insurance(racket!!) was due today;nope,not paid…all savings long used,and the elecTRICK-gas GRID sent a Disconnect Notice and a”payment agreement”-dated July 22,received August 1…!!! which I am unable to meet;they gave me an extension-until Friday!! to meet it:anyway!!WTF?!!
Jobs?what”jobs”???!!
No credit cards,so not an option…when I was ONE DAY late,in February,on my car”insurance”-first time ever in 7 years they CANCELLED my coverage,I had to pay NYSSSTATE DMV a fine for the interim until I reinstated…taking a taxi to work,no busline,and the f’n car was in the garage to boot…now they raised my premium by$200+ per year for being late that ONE time,by ONE day..as of this week
I AM AS GOOD AS DEAD!!!!
Unless..
“the hope of the righteous shall be gladness:but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.”~Proverbs 10:28
IF I can beg,borrow..stael??!! no-I’m not the gubmint nor IT’S other minion of crooks&thugs!! about 55FRN’s I’ll survive until next month,then a repeat…
I dunno.
Obungler and the Congress of 12 now…
hey Hitler was Fuhrer in office August 2,1934-coincidental I’m sure?
FILL YOUR HANDS YOU S.O.B.’S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Powers and principalities of the air,and spiritual WICKEDNESS in HIGH places…
the FIGHT has only begun…
G’night all.
Like he said “They are quietly biding their time until the statute of limitations runs out.”
In Florida, you can see bank after bank, all within slingshot distance. They own all the tall buildings, and a major chunk of all the commercial properties. With their friend Rick Scott, expect more of them. Lets get back to work!
GO BIG MONEY!
and it’s gone…..
It’s GONE
http://www.housingpredictor.com/2011/mers-orders-foreclosure-halt.html
An organization which has NO employees can legally HOLD wet ink documents? What kind
of fraud is this? On one page they stop MERS foreclosures, and on another they claim they
can foreclose even though they have no NATURAL PERSONS who are employees.
Oooookaaaay.
A nice case of having ones cake and eating it too.
May they be faced with hundreds of thousands of lawsuits.
Sue them blind!!
THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH! THANK YOU GEORGE!
The only people who won’t be crying are the mattress stuffers.
………….and the tent makers………………………..my Grandma used to joke about Omar the tent maker and she grew up during the last Great Depression….She never forgot..Alot of what she used to tell me comes rushing back to me now….She was so wise and right about everything……She warned me all of her life to not trust the banksters, not to use much credit and don’t keep money in their banks………I reallly miss her and my gramps…..
VENT, I UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY. I REMINISCE ON MY FAMILY MEMBERS WHO LIVED THRU THE FIRST GREAT DEPRESSION! BUT IN A PERFECT WORLD, WE ALL CAN SEE THE FUTURE…….WE WERE NEVER BLESSED WITH 20/20 HINDSIGHT!
You are right Rob but there were warning signs. The polliticians and the judges are committing mass treason. Foreclosuregate is a giant cover-up for the ruling elite and all of their massive and pernicious fraud.
I was warned in 2006, and the signs were our there, but in the interest of chasing I ignured those warnings and fell into the bank trap. 2 to 3 bucks (million) in equity!……………GONE
TYPO, I MEANT CHASING THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR!
Unfortunately Rob we were all deceived into drinking the kool-aid….Property never loses value right??? We can always make more money right? They forgot to put in the part about until the LIARS LOANS THEY WERE MAKING AND BUNDLING UP WITH OURS START TO DEFAULT AND. BLOW THIS HOUSING BUBBLE THAT WE INTENTIONALLY CREATED TO SMITHEREENS…….Have you watched the movie Wall Street Money Never Sleeps yet? it is very interesting to say the least. It plays like it is fiction but there is alot of hidden truth in that movie..
Hey IVENT you spent a lot of time and energy with your posts to rebut the person about the two parties being the same and by that seem to have gotten distracted from spreading the word about The Document, so how do we stay on point and spread the word here and everywhere, to have everyone do The Document?
Here it is again and should I just keep posting it here over and over again with each new article?
What was the mention about filing liens all about as I seem to have missed this and would like to know more concerning people doing this as I also have experience in liens.
I have not heard from any of you from a couple of days ago, even though I have left my email and phone number here in prior post to contact me.
574.804.0006
Michael @ The “MIXED WAR” Room and The Trials of Life
For some reason this did not appear in the other post so trying to post the link for The Document again and see what happens.
Well this is very strange as it did not post this URL again – does anyone know why not?
nugatorydeclaration.wordpress.com
You are right Michael…….I have been busy keeping my eye on the NWO, THE EVIL EMPIRE and their EVIL AGENDA…….As far as Dabugrabu goes you know I have to say what I have to say. i will be in touch with you….I have tried to post URL’s here as well and have failed…….We might have to circulate your doc another way…….
Does anyone have the information about placing liens on the banks to recover what was paid that was not owed to them as was being discussed between I VENT and some others in another article posting comments?
Not yet Michael…That does sound like a really interesting plan….I have been listening to Michael Savage and he agrees that Obama must reinstitute Glass-Steagal and Michael also suggested the reinstatement of the UP TICK RULE.. Michael Savage said that Wall Street created the economic conditions that allowed OBAMA and FASCIST TYRANNY TO RISE TO POWER….MICHAEL SAID THE DIRTY DEBT DEAL THEY MADE IN THE DARK OF NIGHT IN THE BACKROOMS OF CONGRESS WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL……Michael Savage said that he has a new book coming out in the fall called Trickle down Tyranny a follow up to his book Trickle up Poverty. These devils in Washington and on Wall Street have overthrown our Constitutional Rights and this is really serious. It reminds me of the Buffalo Sprinfield tune: Stop hey what’s that sound everyone look whats goin down………They broke the SOCIAL CONTRACT YET AGAIN RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACES!!!! ARE WE THE PEOPLE GOING TO LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS??????????????? THIS IS TYRANNY RIGHT IN OUR FACES!!!!!!!!!
MICAHEL SAVAGE ALSO SAID ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME……………………………………………
So this is the proof for anyone who thinks they are safe from the rampant crimes of WALL STREET that is another BIG LIE…This Ponzi Scheme was and still is Massive and Pernicious and it is still going on… Anyone check the Wall Street numbers today? They are stealing our wealth as a type……
correction to my typo, THEY ARE STEALING OUR WEALTH UP ON WALL STREET AS I TYPE….YES AMERICA, THE MASIVE ROBBERY OF OUR WEALTH IS STILL GOING ON…….
This is what Obama meant in a speech a while back when he said that peoples pensions should never again be used to gamble with on WALL STREET……..They never wanted MAINSTREET to have a piece of the pie or a piece of anything for that matter…..
I knew this “hidden secret” was going to surface pretty soon ~~ you probably will not see it on our “controller media” but the internet will take care of it for the people ~~~~
Must be artistic