Jeff Martinovich

Speaker, CEO, Author, Defense Consultant, Incubator: U.S. Air Force Academy '88, The College of William & Mary '92, Father, Husband, Free Markets, Capitalism.

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REMOVING COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMS HAS BEEN A DISASTER!

LESSON: Stop messing with merit! As always, initiatives designed to even playing fields and help less-fortunate groups rise achieve the opposite results the government told you would happen.

Back in 2020, the California Public University System (UC) led the charge to get rid of SAT and ACT test requirements – imagine that. The justifications, as with everything else, were they discriminated against minority groups. But these tests also exposed the teacher unions’ woeful education results.

What’s the result? The government knuckleheads have once again greatly harmed the people they claim to help, as well as the very institutions meant to educate and help us all rise out of current stations in life.

Now 750 UC professors have released a letter and analysis crying, “We now observe preparations gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics.”
Without test scores, universities now rely on inflated GPA’s (see all the classes to earn more than a 4.0) plus AI generated essays, and extracurricular activities.

They determined that eliminating the test scores greatly discriminated against minority groups! Plus, the kids attending the colleges are ill-prepared for success.

The professors noted that 1 in 8 freshmen’s math skills were below high school level. 1 in 12 freshmen’s math skills were belowmiddle school level! All a 30x rise since 2020. More alarmingly, 94% of these students passed an advance high school math course with an A- average.

Can we all really be this incompetent, or is it nefarious? Keep the people down or next thing you know is they are taking your job? Clearly, we constantly attempt to control the population by keeping them as uneducated as possible. It is the only possible conclusion.

Bring back merit. Bring back rugged individualism. Get the government out of your pocket, your house, and your kids’ education. Help people help themselves.

Have a great week!

Thank you to the WSJ for information and statistics

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SMOOCH A VETERAN THIS WEEKEND!

LESSON: This weekend remember that only 6% of Adult United States Citizens are veterans – the ones who have put their lives on the line so that the rest of us have remained free for 250 years.

This statistic is shocking to some as it seems it must be more, but it always comes as a surprise that such a small percentage of our men and women actually put themselves on the front lines to keep us free.

Please reset your viewpoints and agendas this Memorial Day Weekend to look for the good, get choked up about being a patriot, and rethink your own mission on what do you contribute to your community and your country.

Instead of watching more golden retriever clips and idiots fighting in restaurants, watch the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the Night Stalkers, Apache Helicopters flyover at the 110thRunning of the Indy 500. Then watch Caitlyn Clark as Grand Marshall for the event – a rockstar American hero providing young women with role models and opportunities above any other country in the world.

Better yet today watch 98 years old, yes 98, World War II veteran David Yoho's blunt and emotional message yesterday in the rain in Washington, D.C. for younger generations to remember the sacrifices of those who served. With incredible energy he belted out, "Tell them about veterans and say to them that we gave up our yesterdays for your tomorrows." It was incredible. As the woman at the table next to Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal said in When Harry Met Sally, “I’ll have what (he’s) having!”

People constantly ask me why I am so patriotic after I battled the U.S. Federal Government in what I believed to be for truth and honor for our company, employees, and families, and losing everything to spend thirteen years incarcerated and destroyed.
My answer is always the same.

The United States of America is the greatest country in the history of the world. But bad people and bad bureaucracies are inevitable in our world, and the success of our country allows these people and organizations to gain unchecked power if not held accountable by our incredible citizens. Remember, on the last day of the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia Elizabeth Willing Powel, a prominent Philadelphia socialite and close friend of George Washington, asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin’s answer was, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Do your part to stand up and keep it!

Tomorrow, please thank a Veteran, better yet smooch one! And, also, support all the other Great Americans who may not be veterans but who spend their days spreading goodness about our history, our values, our freedom, and the hopes for an even better future.

Have an amazing Memorial Day weekend with your family and friends!

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PULLING BACK THE GREEN CURTAIN ON DOJ & FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM (PART XI): ASHLEIGH RESCUING ME ON THE PRISON DOORSTEPS

LESSON: Once they take everything from you, I mean everything, you must identify the insanity, accept your new station in life, and then take that first step back to rebuild and never let the bastards win!

May 19, 2020, Ashleigh pulled up to the Beckly, West Virginia Federal Correctional Institute to pick me up from the Hell Journey. It had been seven years of incarceration in extremely violent surroundings and now I was being a released to home confinement, then supervised release, and then, hopefully, an eventual end to this nightmare – not that it can ever leave you for the rest of your life.

As most of you know, by many miracles, representing myself I was fortunate to reverse the trial court’s decisions five times and remove two federal judges for you know what.

Now I was going home seven years early and here was Ashleigh’s tiny SUV pulling up in front of the gates. I literally recalled at that moment Elliot picking up Jake at the gates of Jolliet Prison in Blues Brothers.

I hopped in the car and Ashleigh sped off in her normal maniac driving style. One minute into the journey I realized I had forgotten my coffee cup! I yelled, “We have to go back and get back my mug!” Ashleigh screamed, “Are you insane?!” I replied, “Clearly yes, but I told you that!”

After living an extravagant lifestyle for so many years, my current life had been reduced to a half-locker of peanut butter, coffee, and the remaining legal filings I had not yet sent in. My locker was constantly broken into and pillaged by the animals while I worked all day in the law library. And back in Virginia, I had put my remaining assets into a storage facility – mainly a mattress, hundreds of books, and all my family photos I cherished. But after a few months in prison I could not pay the storage fees and they auctioned my remaining items. I never knew what happened to them.

Now, in perfect parallel to Tom Hanks risking his life saving Wilson, the volleyball friend on the deserted island in Castaway, I needed to risk my freedom again to force Ashleigh to return for the only asset I still owned on planet Earth. She screamed but turned around the car. I jumped out like a ninja warrior, grabbed the mug, and was back in the car in half a second.

As we journeyed the I-64 highway home I again became a problematic pain, ordering her not to follow that police cruiser so closely! My heart raced at just the sight. We stopped at a Hardees drive through off the highway – sausage, cheese, fat, and high cholesterol had never tasted so good!

The journey back has been a process with miracle after miracle, but some of the best nights are listening to Ashleigh tell people, “You’re not going to believe this one!”

Have a great week, Overachievers!

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STOP THE SEC, EPA, FDA, FCC, and DOJ FROM INDICTING PEOPLE FOR THINGS THAT ARE NOT ILLEGAL!

LESSON: Government Agencies and the DOJ continually indict American citizens for things that explicitly not illegal just because they can and want to – throw them all out!

Federal Agencies over the last 30 years have continually indicted American citizens for things that are not illegal by any law or statute, even with the horrific explosion of thousands of more statutes and unchecked power to federal agencies to shut down your business, take everything you own, and imprison you.

These agencies even seize all your assets before any due process or conviction, and even if you win against their corruption, you likely will never regain your house, safety deposit box, and, of course, reputation.

These agencies have an agenda of what they would like to change and control, so they indict American citizens to set precedent, instead of passing a rule, statue, or law to first give notice to citizens. Then they use this conviction to round up so many more. The SEC is a master of this, even having their own unconstitutional courts and judges to convict you.

Recently, Gannon Van Dyke was indicted on charges that included unlawful use of confidential information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, and wire fraud. He was a special operations soldier who made money on wagering that Venezuelan President Maduro would be captured. Reportedly, he also lost a great number of other wagers. As President Trump stated, “Well, like Pete Rose he only bet on his own team!” The point is it wasn’t illegal. The prosecutors have a long list of fraud, fraud, fraud charges they throw out for every circumstance, but it was not illegal.

We should ask Nancy Pelosi what she thinks since her stock portfolio has outperformed nearly every Wall Street manager by huge margins for over four decades. We should ask Billionaire Paul Singer, a major political donor, why he bought Citgo Petroleum in Venezuela for $5.9 Billion merely weeks before Present Madura was captured and instantly made another $6 Billion on his stock. Has the DOJ indicted either?

When FINRA alleged one of our private stock investments was valued incorrectly, we said, “No problem, its only point-two percent (.2%) of our portfolio. What price do you think it should be and we’ll change it.” The outside valuation firm we hired set the price and the licensed financial auditors we hired had approved the price. But that wasn’t the government’s objective – they couldn’t tell us what the correct price was – since they are not intelligent enough to know. They preferred to shut down our $Billion firm, destroy 100 high-paying jobs, and crush a long list of charity and community organizations we started and supported. It is disgusting.

That is why when the DOJ offered three separate plea offers for a relative slap on the wrist, I refused all and demanded to go to trial against the United States. This is how they take all your assets, how the agents are promoted and bonused on the grab (fact), and how they control the population.

Stop your City, State, and Federal Governments from destroying America and our Citizens simply because they can, now. Protect your freedom and everything you’ve built. Stand up for yourself.

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87% OF AMERICAN 30-YEAR OLDS ARE NOT MARRIED AND DO NOT OWN A HOME!

LESSON: The percentage of U.S. 30-year-olds who are now married and own a home is reportedly down to 13%. In 1960 it was 53%. This shocking realization is the most relevant statistic to the final downfall of America if not fixed immediately!

As a reader of JAM Views Blog, you by now understand that at the end of the day, economics control all – all the rest is noise and purposeful fog and friction of war presented by the hanging-on elite, corrupt politicians, and crazy uniformed people with a cause.

Facts:

1. Men who are married:
a. Earn 10–20% higher income on average per year. Map that out over 40 years!
b. Have more stable employment
c. Accumulate substantially more wealth over time
2. Owning a home versus renting (Simplified $400k purchase):
i. Home price: $400,000
ii. Down payment: $20k-$40k with current programs
iii. Mortgage: 30 years at 6%
b. After 40 years:
i. Home value (3% growth): ≈ $1.3M
ii. Mortgage: $0
iii. Net housing asset: ≈ $1.3M
c. Only Argument Against:
i. Rent for a little less and invest the difference in the stock market
1. Unfortunately, 99% of young people never actually do that
So, why do we have this radical problem?
1. American Men have been systematically disenfranchised from the American Dream in a deliberate process to make all citizens dependent on the government. The government knows strong, educated, confident men do not need the government for anything. They will take care of their own families.

2. Reminder, in the last 55 years, the number of U.S. houses have doubled from 70 million to approx. 150 million (2x). But the money supply (the number of dollars floating around due to the insane printing out of thin air) has grown 30x!Therefore, housing costs have risen 15x. Easy math!

Take back your homes and your families from dependency and hopelessness. Help your children understand economics and give them confidence, hope, and inspiration. Remember, our greatest gift is to have them never needs us for anything and to show up to Thanksgiving because they really want to!

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STOP TAKING U.S. HARDWORKING CITIZENS’ TAXES TO PAY FOR WORTHLESS COLLEGE DEGREES FOR KIDS WHO WILL NEVER OVERCOME THE COST & DEBT!

LESSON: U.S. Taxpayers, with the heaviest burden being on the middle class, every year pay for college scholarships and loans for ridiculous degrees with no economic return for our country, GDP, and race against all other countries.

Every year, U.S. taxpayers pay $billions, yes $billions, in grants and loans for young people to be able to take 4, 5, 6 years studying Fashion Design, Communications, Art History, Music, Liberal Arts, Religious Studies, Performing Arts, Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethnic Studies, Journalism, and a long list of worthless return-on-investment degrees.

Now, lower your blood pressure, socialists. I am 100% in support of these degrees for any child who has a wealthy family, trust fund, or charitable organization to pay for that degree.  But I demand that Joe Plumber should not be forced by guns and cages (if he doesn’t pay his taxes) to fund this insane zero return on his dollars.

A few mornings a week I jog down to the One Life Fitness to lift my very-embarrassingly small weights and hang out with my tattooed young friends in their UVA, Old Dominion, Willian & Mary, and Norfolk State shirts because they are all now waiters and waitresses - their mornings are open. I love my friends but constantly stress that I wish someone had talked to them earlier or pointed them to a STEM course.

A few new initiatives are in play to not fund degrees which do not provide income above high school graduation incomes, or to not fund master’s degrees which do not eclipse bachelor’s degrees. Seems to make sense. Unfortunately, in America we constantly help people hurt themselves. Right now, the Education Department’s student loan portfolio, funded by the American taxpayer, is nearly $1.7 trillion. No chance these ex-students will ever repay a fraction.

These universities and ridiculous degrees are no different than all the other government fraud, the NGO’s laundering $Billions for fake daycares, and the insane fraudulent financial aid to every other country on the map, except our own.

Please do not let your own children travel a path of government dependency but teach them to add 10x greater value than they take.  If you want them to study music, art, or liberal arts, we greatly support that as long as you don’t accept Joe the Plumber’s money to do it.

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WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO DISINCENTIVISE WORK?!

Lesson: The U.S. federal and state governments continue to implement policy after policy to stop our citizens from working and instead rely on the government, especially able-bodied men. Understand the design!

President Lyndon B Johnson, after replacing JFK following his mysterious murder, quickly implemented expanded Medicaid, Head Start, Food Stamps, and a long list of programs to pay people for not working. Of course, our nation will always support the mothers and children who need help, as all great civilizations have, yet it quickly grew into significant disincentives for able-bodied men to work.

According to the SIPP, in December of 2022, the US population was 328.6 million people, of whom 73.2 million were receiving Medicaid. Of those on Medicaid, 6.7 million were elderly, 29.3 million were children, and the remaining 37.2 million were working-age adults. The American Enterprise Institute examined survey data and found that just 44 percent of able-bodied, working-age Medicaid beneficiaries without dependents worked at least 80 hours in that month (20 hours per week).

More recently, working aged men have surged gambling activity to attempt to earn something for nothing. COVID quiet quitting taught citizens to believe quitting and getting a government check was reasonable and ethical. Personal injury law firms’ insane advertisements to promote money for nothing have decayed the mentality further. Hollywood depicts hard work as abusive and against work-life balance.

This is why one side of the country demands everyone must rely on the government, and the other side is too weak to implement policies which actually help everyone to help themselves. The total disregard for our Founding Father’s Rugged Individualism is heart breaking and has created the control of our citizens by design (might as well just join the European Union!). Encourage a man not to support himself and his family and you will control them for generations. We don’t have time here to also address the incredible mental health epidemic created by this dependence.

This week take great care of your family and help all your friends and associates do the same. Teach your children to work and gain self-respect and eventual independence. Have a great week!

- Thank you to Barton Swaim, Journal Unruly Republic column, for statistics

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LEADERS, UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF LARGER NUMBERS. IT IS THE SIMPLE MATH OF HOW THE RICH GET RICHER, AND YOU CAN DO IT TOO!

LESSON: When making business and personal decisions, do the math to understand that we receive the same rate of return on $100k as we could on $1M. It all is the same if we expand our minds, and if a truly great business decision, more capital will always be available.

Your business and life successes are always a result of your goals, aspirations, and beliefs of what you deserve. There is little to no difference from the man who makes $60k per year to the man who makes $10M per year except their belief that is what they should be making.

I know all the excuses about upbringing, family, opportunities, etc. are false because I had them all in our small rancher in Dayton, Ohio. But as my world grew, I was shocked at how many people had so much money! It made no sense to me. Of course, there are the trust fund babies and lucky jackpots, but I discovered that people who believed they should have way more money than the rest, did, even if they had no more brains or opportunities than the rest of us.

I opened an office in New York City and would take the Newport News, Virginia Airport AirTran flight to LaGuardia, $60 each way, grab a car to Manhattan, do 9 meetings my investment bankers had set up, pay $29 for a martini at Nobu just to say I was in NYC, do 9 more meetings the next day, and catch the 7pm flight back to Newport News, Virginia.

The first thing I would tell our 100-person team when I returned each trip was, “Those people in NYC are clearly not smarter than us but their transactions just have 3 or 6 more zeros behind every deal in Virginia, because that’s just how it works.”

When I previously made a little money and drove down to Nags Head, North Carolina, for a possible little beach house rental investment, I took an unexpected left turn up the North Beach to Corolla and Pine Island which shocked me with what at that time looked like mansions on the ocean. I did the math, and surprisingly I could buy a small rental and make X but if I was able to buy one of these ridiculous homes, and receive the more substantial rent, I would receive a similar net. Not to mention having my family and so many friends also enjoy this miracle property.

I figured out the financing, because the numbers made sense for the banks, just like it did for the much smaller properties. And the property value, just because the law of large numbers, grew 10x what would have happened with my previous mindset.

Ask out the prom queen (no one else does), find a way to buy the bigger property, buy the bigger company, and stand strong on your new salary negotiations. Understand Einstein’s 8th wonder of the world about compounding interest on large numbers.

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LEADERS, ALWAYS REMEMBER THE WORLD LOVES A GOOD RESURRECTION

LESSON: Take a moment this Easter weekend to understand the gift of resurrection. Overcome your challenges, resentment, failure, and even hatred to understand the miracles of life, and find your Fitz!

You don’t have to watch Rocky, Rudy, and Hoosiers too many times to understand the world loves a good resurrection. For all of us who have experienced great setbacks and disappointments, and of course that is all of us, remember this Easter the purpose of life is to overcome all these lessons and realize the rewards of resurrection.

As I presided over the total collapse of our billion-dollar investment firms by battling the federal government, I could not believe the incredible loss of business and life. But through miracle after miracle my life today is incredibly richer and happier. If I would not have had faith to persevere for over 4,000 days of incarceration, I would never have experienced the current incredibleness.

This weekend let’s remember these great challenges make us tremendously stronger, more mature, and more in-tune with the universe. So, we must view them as gifts and ensure we realize the resurrection. For all the people and organizations that have wronged you, show them that success is the greatest revenge. Our legendary angel, Joy Talley, would always tell me that holding onto hate and resentment was like drinking poison and wishing the other person dies!

Five years ago, when Ashleigh picked me up from prison and brought me to her home, this tiny little yorkie, Fitz, came out from under her bed, finally to her incredible surprise, and never left my side since. For some reason he ignored all other humans, as he seemed to think he was royalty, but I think God had him waiting for me and I was waiting for him to be my first new friend in the world. Each morning, he he was the first to greet me with wild enthusiasm, and every evening he fell asleep curled up against me.

Well, last night he suddenly passed away at the age of 12, not bad for a Yorkie, and our house is an emotional mess this Easter Sunday. We couldn’t pull ourselves together to make it to church, but I think God will understand.

Once our great sadness subsides a little, I again want to view this heartbreak as another miracle in that I had the great honor to know Fitz. Obviously, it was not by accident. He was waiting for me to come home and I was waiting for him.

Let us all please use this Easter weekend to stop feeling sorry for ourselves, stop resentment, stop the hate for those who have wronged us. Let us bounce out of bed tomorrow with resurrection, with the incredible optimism that it is a miracle we are here, we live in the greatest country every to inhabit the earth, and we are incredibly grateful for our families, work, friends, and life.

If you have never seen the famous Jimmy Stweart and Johnny Carson Dog Name Bo Clip, please take two minutes to watch. Bing Videos. I’ll always love a dog named Fitz. Happy Easter.

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