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On today's show, Glenn Beck sits down with Jason Buttrill, a military intelligence analyst who has been working with Glenn for over a year on the migrant caravans crossing the southern border. They discuss what the goal of the caravan is, who is behind it, and who is funding it. Also, Mike Lee is with us to talk about the Biden scandal and how it affects you and your kids.
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Hey, welcome to the Tuesday podcast. Really good podcast. We go on the border with Jason
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Buttrill, who is one of the guys who is our he's our chief researcher and in former military
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intelligence. And he's been working with me for over a year on these caravans. We are talking
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about something on tonight's show at five o'clock and we give you a sneak preview of that on today.
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We can tell you exactly what the goal of these caravans is and who is funding and who is
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organizing. And it is pretty shocking. Also, Mike Lee is with us. We talk about the higher
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ed scandal and not the Hollywood one, but the one that actually affects you and your children.
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We have the Biden bracket going on. States rights. We talk a little bit about and suicide rates
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doubling now for kids at 13. The experts say they know the reason. It's not the reason I think.
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And I share that rather, rather forcefully on today's podcast. I'm glad by the way,
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Glenn, you mentioned America's obsession. Biden bracket dot com. You can vote on the creepiest
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photo of Joe Biden in a tournament style bracket. The result comes on Thursday. And during that
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Thursday show, that's only a minor part of it. The real big part of it is the Joe Biden expose
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on what he's done in Ukraine and China. Scandals that have not yet bubbled up to the mainstream
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press. We've done a lot of investigation on it. And there's an expose coming out on Thursday.
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OK, we're waiting for Mike Lee to show up. He'll be with us hopefully soon, maybe at the
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bottom of the hour. If he misses this. We know that he is extraordinarily busy. I talked to him
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yesterday. There's some there's some amazing things going on in Washington, D.C., some amazing
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things that are happening. And we better get a handle on our Constitution fast.
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You think we still need it? I mean, we have the Green New Deal. If we could just implement that
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as the new Constitution. I mean, think of how much time it would save. Yeah, because I mean,
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sure, there's constitutional problems. Sure. Something like the Green New Deal. But if you
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just kind of push it through and make it the thing, then you don't have to worry about the
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constitutional problems. I was I we've learned so much about the environment. I was very excited
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to see a new study that came out about plastic bags versus reusable bags. Yes. Now, I brought this
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up at dinner last night with my daughter. Oh, good for you. Good for you. Went over well. So there's
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been look, I thought science was just accept. You're supposed to accept the science as it
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happens. OK, yes. And she and she does. The the problem is the problem is is the sea. And
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we'll get into that. Yeah, I just we have Mike on and he's only got until 830. So you've only
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got now we've only got about three minutes, Mike, unless you want to talk after the break,
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too. But I'll I know your schedule's tight. How are you, sir? Doing great. Good. Great. Good.
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Can you can can we talk just a little bit here about what's happening on the border? I mean,
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I think we have the human wave theory happening. You know, the human wave theory that it's a it's a
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a war tactic where you just you just have wave after wave after wave until you overwhelm the
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system. And then, you know, the other country collapses. Isn't that what we have going on in
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the border, Mike? Certainly what we're going to be faced with, whether there's any one person who
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has that as their intention or whether every person spilling over through the border has that as their
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intention. This is what happens when you have year after year of lax border enforcement. So it's
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also what happens when you encourage people to bring children, whether it's your own children or
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somebody else's to come across promising to release them if they're traveling with a child.
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OK, so so we have this where they they want it both ways. The Democrats do. You can't.
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Does the president have the right to say no more, no more asylum? We are full up on asylum unless you
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go to your local embassy or you apply for it, but you can't apply for it at our border.
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Does he have the right to say that? Asylum law is tricky, but there are some levers that the executive
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branch of government does, in fact, control. And I think there are some things he can do to be more
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restrictive on this. One of the things that I would like to see is an aggressive move toward
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easing the impact of the so-called Flores settlement. This is the settlement that requires
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us to release people within 20 days if they're traveling with a child. It's ridiculous and it's
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encouraging human trafficking of the worst sort. Right. Mike, I'm sorry I've got a break. If you'd like
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to hold, we'd love to have you and talk about some other issues. We're covering the border and we're
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showing you the connections to these caravans right to Chicago. This is a well laid out, well orchestrated
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group of people that have been flying under the radar. And as we found it, because we started
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checking addresses and gee, all these organizations had exactly the same address. That's how we found out
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about Acorn. Do you remember that? It all led to one building in New Orleans. We'll give you more on
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that coming up in just a second. That's tonight at five o'clock. Also Thursday, Joe Biden and the
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forget about his, his creepiness. We got that covered in the bar, the Biden bracket. Dot com.
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You go and you vote on the creepiest video. It's the sweet 16 or the really sick 16. We have that,
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but we're looking at the things that should put a Biden behind bars. Things that nobody else is
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talking about. We have that on Thursday. Don't miss an episode five o'clock of the Glenn Beck program
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Mike Lee is with us. Mike, I, I want to give you the benefit of the doubt on something
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because I don't think I've ever disagreed with anything that you had. And if I did,
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if I listened to you for two seconds, I was like, oh, okay, I get it. This, this whole flexibility act
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where it's the family leave thing. I don't understand how, how you are, you are pushing this and doing
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this. Can you help us out? Yeah, sure. I'd be happy to. You're talking about the cradle act,
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the cradle act would allow a young mother or father upon the birth or adoption of a child
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to choose to take a short term social security benefit following the birth or adoption of that
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baby in exchange for a delay in his or her retirement date of twice that length. So they
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would have the option of taking one, two or three months off and take a limited social security benefit
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during that time period following the birth of a child, if they want to stay home with the child
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and then in exchange for that delay their retirement by a corresponding two, four or
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six months, uh, at the end of their career. But there, but there, there is no pot, uh, of social
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security, uh, money. Um, and if I'm 20 and I'm having a baby or well now the way it is, if I'm 47 and
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having a baby, uh, it's still, uh, that I doubt that social security is going to be around. So
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aren't we just putting, aren't we just borrowing more money, uh, to be able to do this?
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No, this proposal is budget neutral. This proposal, uh, is actuarial sound, uh, actuarially sound,
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and it would not do anything to destabilize the fund. Uh, look, social security takes money out
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of people's paychecks and it does so with the promise and the understanding that it's their
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money and it'll be there for them at retirement. My point here is that there is at least one other
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time in the life of a taxpayer when an American up to have access to that benefit, should they choose
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to take it? They ought to have this option after they have a child. I understand that certainly
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the motivation here in that, you know, you know, you obviously family is incredibly important and
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it's something you've, you've, you've fought for, you know, the entire time you've been in the Senate.
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I am a, and I wonder if you are as well, a tad concerned that we would be creating another,
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you know, big moment in people's lives in which they have to look to the federal government for,
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you know, to, to, to hold a big role in that event. I mean, if you remember the
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Life of Julia cartoon they did back in the Obama campaign, you know, it was every big moment of
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Julia's life was associated with some benefit from the federal government. And are we not creating
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a new one here? Yeah. So I, I, I, I don't believe that's what we're doing. And in fact, I think we're
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doing quite the opposite of that. So instead of going with Julia, let's come up with a hypothetical
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young woman whom we'll call Glenna. Wait a minute. Glenna, at the time she has a baby,
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has already been paying into the social security system for years. She will be paying into the
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social security system for decades after the birth of her child. So Glenna ought to have the freedom
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to choose to delay her retirement date in order to spend a few weeks at home with her baby. That is
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not a new government program. That is simply making an existing government program more flexible in
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order to accommodate Glenna at the time she gives birth to a child. Okay. So, so let's say Glenna
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approves. So I, I, you might like that. All right. So I agree with that. I think that makes sense.
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My problem is social security, the Glenna knows it's not going to be there at 65 or 68 or 88. It's just
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not going to be there. This is an unworkable, unsustainable system.
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The unsustainability of social security is not in any way accelerated by this move.
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The fact that it has been made unsustainable is as a result of decisions made by Congresses over
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the course of many decades. There are a lot of things we could do to make that better and a lot
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of things we could do to make that worse. Okay. So this bill in particular would do nothing to
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either accelerate or halt the demise of the social security program. This one just keeps it on the
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same path. Okay. So wait, so are we borrowing to pay for social security?
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Yes, we are. As a result of budgetary decisions made, there's nothing about this bill that would
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accelerate that because this would come about only as a result of decisions that would be offset
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both in the short term and the long term by, among other things, the delay and the ultimate
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retirement date. And that, by the way, is ultimately something that we're going to have to look at
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as a way of saving social security is to acclimate people to the idea that Americans are living longer
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as they live longer. We have to be moving toward a system that indexes the retirement age according
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to life expectancy. Mike, I have to tell you, I'm 55. I can't imagine at 65. And I know a lot of people
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who are being forced into retirement, especially work for the federal government. And they're like,
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Bernie Sanders is like 900 years old. And he's not forced to retire. You know, I don't know people
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that want to go away at 65 years old. Now, you know, I'm sure there's a lot of blue collar workers
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that will say, shut your mouth, Glenn. But it's 65. My grandfather was old when he died at 60, I think
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seven. I mean, that's that's what it was in the 60s and 70s. You were old in your 60s. You're not old
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in your 60s today. That's exactly right. And at the time, the social security program was created.
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People on average didn't live much past 60. And so as a result, they weren't spending many decades
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of their life as social security beneficiaries. Now, people are living longer today. We're happy
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that that's the case. We hope that very trend will continue. As long as that trend is continuing,
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we do have to take into account the economic realities that that creates for social security.
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Do you feel bad that you've scarred the audience by giving them a mental image of a woman named
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Glenna? Oh, I knew a woman named Glenna once. She was a lovely person. So a sweet spirit.
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Yeah, she was beautiful on the inside. Right. So we don't have the picture and image of Glenn
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back in feminine form. Okay, that is what I did. Think about the bucket of chicken and somebody who
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looks like Colonel Sanders, but on the inside is lovely. Colonel Sanders with his wee beady eyes
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saying, oh yeah, you're going to buy my chicken. While putting an addictive chemical in it that makes you crave it fortnightly.
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I love a man who can quote that movie. God bless you. Thanks so much, Mike.
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It's an interesting key. You know what the movie is?
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Did anybody know what the movie is? What is the movie?
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Yeah, So I Married an Axe Murderer. Oh yeah, of course. You quote two movies. It's either
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So I Married an Axe Murderer or Princess Bride or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Those are the only three
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things you know. Those are the only three references you have. Now, I will be saying, I have like Rocky
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3 and Rocky 4, and that's pretty much it. I will put my movies against it. I will put mine about 3 and 4
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any day of the week. Rocky 1, come talk to me. Rocky 3 and 4, I don't want to see you.
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Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray
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Unleashed. His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast.
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Hey, Alana Mar update. Have you have you heard about her requesting the United States to step
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in and save this Muslim Brotherhood? No, no, no. Have you heard her thoughts on 9-11?
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No. Really, really powerful. I thought she might be against it.
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It's kind of like you got chocolate in my peanut butter. Let's put these two together and see what
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we have. All right, what do you have? All right, here's Alana Mar on talking about 9-11 and care
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and its creation. Care was founded after 9-11. Nope. Because they recognized that some people did
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something. Wait, what? And that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.
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Oh, okay. So that's her description of 9-11. Some people did something. That's true. Yeah. Some
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extremist Muslims killed 3,000 innocent Americans. That's the something these people did. But it is
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hard to argue with the idea that some people did something. Yeah, that is true. It is true. That
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some people did something. I just found it in an unusual description of 9-11. I've never heard it
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before. And then, you know, first of all, care wasn't developed after. It wasn't put together
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after 9-11. No, no. No, no. No, no. That can't be. She just said it. I know she did. Yeah. She did.
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She lied. She lied. She lied. Yeah. Care was actually started by the Palestinian Council,
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which is a direct arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Palestinian Council was told, you need to have
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a think tank, which has been since disbanded. You need to have a propaganda arm, which became
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care. And you need to have a fundraising arm for Hamas, which was eventually, those people
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were thrown in prison. So the only one that was remaining is the propaganda arm of the Muslim
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Brotherhood and the sister organization of Hamas. It's just amazing. That's care. And they were formed
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in the 90s, right? I mean, so maybe you could say they were formed after the first World Trade
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Center bombing, but not 9-11. No. And formed, you know, she makes Muslims, American Muslims sound
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like the victims of 9-11. They weren't. They were not. I mean, some of them were in the
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Yes. You know? Yes. But I mean, you cannot, again, disagree that it was formed after some
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people did something. That is true. It is still true. And she's nailed that one.
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This woman needs to go. She needs to be impeached. This woman is really dangerous. She's really
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a danger. So here's a tweet from her. I recently met with a couple of people to talk about Hoda
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Abdullaman. Some people. Just call some people. Some people. Some people. A political prisoner
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in Egypt. I hope Trump brings up her case in his meeting with the regime that has imprisoned
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her. Now, the regime that imprisoned her was Al-Sisi's regime, the one who put the Muslim
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Brotherhood out of business. Because remember what they were doing? Oh, yeah, that's right.
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They were burning churches down and crucifying Christians and all of that stuff. She said that
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regime imprisoned her. We must work to free Hoda. Okay. All right. So who is she? Well,
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she's just a wonderful person, wonderful person that happens to be, you know, directly connected
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to the Muslim Brotherhood. This is a terrorist organization, a terrorist organization. By the
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way, one of the one of the people I think that she is posing with in a picture was featured
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in an Al Jazeera produced video dramatizing mom's situation as a human rights crisis. Now,
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this is the boy in the picture with Al-Anamar. She is. She's posing with the son of this Hoda
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woman that is in there. Uh, he, uh, after he was on Al Jazeera, she reached out and she's
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like, Oh, I want to help your Muslim Brotherhood mom. Why? Well, because again, care who is holding
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her hand the entire time is a, the parent organization of, I'm sorry, the parent organization
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of care is the Muslim Brotherhood. If the Muslim Brotherhood has people in prison, she's going
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to stand up for them because she is being backed by the propaganda arm care of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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So this is, this is, this is foreign agent kind of stuff. Yeah. I mean, she, she calls herself
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a second class. So she's tired of being treated like a second class citizen. I don't know. She goes
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on to say, this is the best of the Glenn Beck program. I want to tell you real quick, we're
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going to talk next hour about our kids. The suicide rate is, has almost doubled again, uh, with our kids
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under 13. It is terrifying what's going on. The experts say one thing. I have quite a different
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take on it. We'll give that to you next hour. Also, we're going to talk about the, uh, higher
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ed scandal that is going on. I shouldn't say scan scam that is going on. That's after the top of
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the hour. I'd like to see those suicide rates matched up against the increased use of reusable
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garbage, uh, grocery bags. Really? Yeah. Because, uh, you know, there's a huge thing that's out now
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that if you have to, for every reusable bag you use, you have to reuse it 7,100 times to equal,
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uh, a plastic bag at a grocery store. Now, many of you may not use that reusable bag that many
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times. However, if it's organic cotton, it's 20,000 times you have to reuse it. Now, here's my
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daughter's argument on this. Uh, first of all, the oceans, and we can get into that later, but she
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said, the problem is, is that we're not, we're going out, we're creating a new industry of these
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new bags. She's like, you don't go out and buy a new bag for this. You use a bag that you already
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have. The problem is, is that it's created this environmental thing is creating a whole new butt
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load of, of products for you to go out and buy and own. So you're not reducing. No, of course not.
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Um, also there, it's really unhealthy. Um, they did a study of this university of Pennsylvania and
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George Mason did the study of this when they banned plastic bags in San Francisco. And, uh, in the wake
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of that, they had a 46% increase in food, foodborne illness. Wow. They found, uh, deaths and ER visits
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spiked as soon as the ban went into effect. And it's because people put meat and vegetables in,
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in their bags. They throw it in their hot trunk. It cooks in there. And then they go back with the
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same bag the next time and buy new food and produce rolls around and all that you're supposed
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to be washing them in between every use. And if you do, you have absolutely no environmental
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impact. Even if you include all the Marine waste with the plastic bags, which by the way,
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90% of it comes from China. So that's a whole nother situation, but it's, it is amazing the way they,
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they're able to create these brand new industries. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Adam Andrzejewski is, uh, with us now. He is a CEO and founder of open the books.com.
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It works to capture and post all disclosed spending at every level of government, federal,
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state, and local. Uh, they have, uh, successfully captured nearly $4 billion in public expenditures,
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rapidly growing their data in all 50 States. Uh, they are a government watchdog organization.
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They do not accept any government funding. Uh, he and Steven Moore, a friend of the program
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worked on an article called the biggest college scandal of them all. And we welcome you Adam to
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the program. How are you? Glenn, thank you very much. Thank you for your interest in our work.
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Yeah, you bet. Um, this is to me, I have been watching this for about 20 years now,
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and everybody talks about the price of healthcare and the price of food and the price of gas and
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everything else. And no one has talked about the price of college, at least at the government level,
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because they're enabling, uh, this to happen and it is breaking our back. Tell me what you found.
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So we found basically seven facts that Americans don't know regarding higher education. Uh, so it's,
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you know, the biggest scandal facing, uh, higher ed is certainly the cost of higher education. And you
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mentioned the 1.7 trillion in student debt, but that now exceeds the $1 trillion Americans have put on
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their credit cards or the 1.1 trillion that we've accumulated in debt on auto loans. So it's a huge,
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huge amount of money. Um, you know, one of the most troubling facts that we found is that the,
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um, the American people are paying for wealthy schools to get even richer. We found that the top
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25 schools in the country, they hold a collective endowment. That's money in the bank of a quarter
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trillion dollars of endowment funds. They don't need taxpayer help, but just last year,
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the American taxpayer put $7 billion worth of federal, uh, taxpayer subsidies into those 25
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wealthy schools. And they need to lighten the load in the American taxpayer.
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I remember, uh, Adam, this years ago, I just on the back of an envelope did some figuring and just
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on the, the interest that they are accruing every year, Harvard could pay for everybody that goes to
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Harvard. And I think they could open up like six satellite schools and they wouldn't, the principal
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would have never been touched. Well, you're right about that. So we did analysis of the eight
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schools of the Ivy league and collectively they hold North of $120 billion. We forecast that by
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over the next 20 years, they'll hold a trillion dollar endowment. And you're exactly right, Glenn.
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They, they, um, could finance the next 51 years with no further gifts, free tuition for every single
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undergraduate student. So why is the federal government involved in this? This is, this is,
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this would be like giving Apple, uh, welfare. They don't need it.
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So, you know, all of this, um, federal student aid was supposed to make college more affordable,
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but I think higher ed has once again, proved the rule, uh, that the fastest way to make something
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really expensive is for Washington DC politicians, Glenn, to throw more public money at a problem,
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uh, to make it quote unquote affordable. Well, if you, if you have, it's honestly, there's,
00:26:30.480
there is no, uh, reason that if you want to live on the beach, the federal government should underwrite
00:26:36.660
your insurance. Uh, it only makes things much, much, much worse. Uh, when it, when it comes to these
00:26:44.540
loans, if, if you're guaranteed to get a loan and you know, it's a guaranteed thing, what, what stops
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the, uh, colleges from saying, you know what, everybody's happy. They're just gonna, they're
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just gonna take the loan out anyway, cause they don't have a choice. Just keep raising the price.
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Well, what, what Steve Moore and I found was that tax dollars are actually driving up college tuition
00:27:08.440
costs. And there's a great example of this in, in one of the, uh, higher ed verticals. And that is
00:27:13.900
colleges of cosmetology. Uh, their beauty schools, uh, you go there for one year, you come out with
00:27:19.480
a license to cut hair, do massage therapy, manicure nails, uh, the largest chain of these beauty
00:27:24.900
schools, the empire beauty schools, they've received more than a half billion dollars over
00:27:30.240
the course of the past four years in federal taxpayers, student aid assistance. And they now
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admit they charge Glenn. And this is pretty incredible. They charge $28,000 a year for that
00:27:41.020
one year program to cut hair. Yes. That's more tuition than big 10 college universities charge.
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They can only do it because we, the American taxpayer funding them to such a great degree.
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That is, and we gave them half of, did I hear that right? Half a billion dollars.
00:28:00.740
Our data shows that opened the books.com that over $500 million worth of federal student aid
00:28:06.180
subsidies flowed to empire beauty schools in the last four years. What the hell?
00:28:12.960
And so at $28,000, I mean, those poor students and their families, they can't pay that money back.
00:28:20.520
I mean, that's just an unbelievable amount of money.
00:28:28.120
Well, look, the, uh, education secretary, Betsy DeVos, uh, in many ways, she's been a pioneer
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and a reformer in higher education. But right now she wants to actually weaken accreditation
00:28:39.720
standards. So you're going to get more schools like these beauty schools. You're going to get
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more schools like a music and design academy that charges between $38,000 and $48,000 a year on
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tuition. And they admit that their average graduate comes out and only makes $28,000 a year. We don't
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need weaker accreditation controls. We need stronger accreditation controls.
00:29:04.240
We have in your report, Crescent City School of Gambling and Bartending received $9.5 million
00:29:12.520
in federal funding between fiscal 14 and 2017. How much money are you making, uh, at this,
00:29:22.600
Well, and that begs the question, Glenn, do you like your tax dollars shaken or stirred?
00:29:32.500
That one at least sounds fun. I mean, you know, I don't know.
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Here's another one we identified that actually sounds fun. And it's the, uh, the professional
00:29:40.720
golfer's career college. And over the last four years, taxpayers put $5 million into that school.
00:29:46.960
Uh, they tout themselves, uh, their competitive advantage is that they're the only school they say
00:29:52.580
where you can golf seven days a week. Now the course doesn't even open up till noon. And maybe
00:29:57.760
that's because none of the students are up that early.
00:30:01.640
It's like, it's like Caddyshack turned into a university. I love it.
00:30:04.840
Here's one that we, uh, that we had no idea that was going on. So over the course of the past four
00:30:10.320
years, a billion dollars, nearly $1 billion has flowed into 112 seminaries, uh, to mint pastors and
00:30:18.060
priests. And to the extent that everyone listening to your program feels that government money
00:30:24.100
eventually could be used to control messaging content. This is very troubling.
00:30:29.960
Yeah. Um, so, uh, is there any move at all to cut these schools off, especially the ones with these
00:30:44.700
So I think there's, you know, three nonpartisan reforms that the secretary DeVos can bring forth.
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One is wealthy colleges must make themselves affordable. Glenn, there's no public purpose
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argument for working in middle-class taxpayers to fund the Harvards, the Notre Dames, the Stanfords.
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They literally have all the money in the world. May need to lighten the load on the American
00:31:06.200
taxpayer. Hang on just a second. Let me ask you this. Why should we be giving loans out
00:31:12.720
to an organization that has a billion dollars worth of funds? Why don't they underwrite the
00:31:19.760
loans themselves? They can do it. If they believe in it, they should underwrite the loans themselves.
00:31:26.460
Harvard has $34 billion. I think it is. I mean, they have way more than a billion dollars.
00:31:31.080
Yeah. Harvard has $34 billion in their endowment. I mean, there is no public purpose argument for
00:31:36.180
we, for we, the people to underwrite all of that at these schools. Look, they're, they're 501c3
00:31:42.140
educational public charities. They have an unlimited, uh, set of, an infinite set of beneficiaries.
00:31:49.140
We, the taxpayer don't need to be funding them. They should swear off government money, not accept it.
00:31:55.260
But if they do that, then they have to cut the, uh, uh, cut the, the cost, uh, that is helping them
00:32:04.760
make all of this money. Right. They got to work a little harder, but obviously they've got the
00:32:09.000
network to pull it off. I mean, they've raised billions of dollars here. Here's the second
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bipartisan reform. And this just drives people crazy that this is even going on. The department of
00:32:19.440
education in the past two years admits to overpaying $11 billion worth of student loans and Pell grants,
00:32:29.600
the, uh, the education department, obviously they've got a complete lack of basic in-house financial
00:32:35.100
controls. Billions of dollars of, of overpayments are flowing out the door. They need to stop that.
00:32:41.980
So wait, so wait, wait, wait, they're overpaying by how much? $11 billion over the course of the
00:32:50.560
past two years. And in their own financial documents, they say for 2019, the situation
00:32:56.720
is going to get 4% worse. What? Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Is there no one honest in this
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exchange at all? There's no one at the universities that are like, Hey guys, you already paid us for
00:33:08.600
this. There's no honest broker at all. There's nobody watching the candy store here at all.
00:33:14.660
There, there is nobody. As a matter of fact, um, it's 4% of all student loans that were overpaid
00:33:20.600
last year. And incredibly 8% of all Pell grants were overpaid. Pell grants don't have to be paid back.
00:33:28.260
This is obscene. This is obscene. Even if you just want to look at it from the number of people that
00:33:36.280
could be educated and, and with just the money that we already have, Adam, is there any idea of
00:33:43.380
you guys looked at all on what this means? If we actually go to a socialist system, a free education
00:33:48.620
for everybody, what that's going to cost. So according to Trump's pick for the fed economist,
00:33:54.220
Stephen Moore, when we pen the piece at the Washington times, uh, more makes the argument that
00:33:59.800
free college tuition for all, um, that would be the worst thing for this for, for higher education.
00:34:04.880
They would have no incentive whatsoever to hone the budget, to cut costs, to use their endowment.
00:34:10.980
It would all roll back on the American taxpayer. Moore makes the argument. It would be the most
00:34:15.980
regressive policy forcing, uh, working and middle-class taxpayers to pay for wealthy kids,
00:34:22.940
college educations. Just a side note here. Any chance that, uh, you think he goes to a fed chair?
00:34:29.720
I'm rooting for him, but is there any... I, I think he's, you know, the, the president's staying
00:34:35.400
with him. He has come under blistering attack. And from, from what is being said in the press,
00:34:40.340
um, you know, the Republican controlled Senate, um, you know, it sounds like they still support the
00:34:46.160
pick and, uh, Stephen Moore would be a great addition to the fed board.
00:34:50.100
Well, we'd have a little bit of, uh, common sense.
00:34:53.460
You know what he wants? He told me this the other day on a phone call. He wants an audit of the fed.
00:34:58.020
And I think that's something that all of us should support.
00:35:01.000
That would be fantastic. Um, Adam, thank you so much. I appreciate it. God bless.
00:35:06.620
You bet. Uh, the, uh, the name of the, uh, story by Stephen Moore and Adam is, uh, the biggest college
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scandal of all from the Washington times. It is well worth the time to read the blaze radio network