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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to the Tuesday podcast. Really good podcast. We go on the border with Jason

00:00:06.160 Buttrill, who is one of the guys who is our he's our chief researcher and in former military

00:00:11.860 intelligence. And he's been working with me for over a year on these caravans. We are talking

00:00:19.380 about something on tonight's show at five o'clock and we give you a sneak preview of that on today.

00:00:26.560 We can tell you exactly what the goal of these caravans is and who is funding and who is

00:00:33.620 organizing. And it is pretty shocking. Also, Mike Lee is with us. We talk about the higher

00:00:39.880 ed scandal and not the Hollywood one, but the one that actually affects you and your children.

00:00:44.880 We have the Biden bracket going on. States rights. We talk a little bit about and suicide rates

00:00:53.100 doubling now for kids at 13. The experts say they know the reason. It's not the reason I think.

00:01:01.420 And I share that rather, rather forcefully on today's podcast. I'm glad by the way,

00:01:08.680 Glenn, you mentioned America's obsession. Biden bracket dot com. You can vote on the creepiest

00:01:13.040 photo of Joe Biden in a tournament style bracket. The result comes on Thursday. And during that

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00:01:23.760 on what he's done in Ukraine and China. Scandals that have not yet bubbled up to the mainstream

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00:01:59.640 OK, we're waiting for Mike Lee to show up. He'll be with us hopefully soon, maybe at the

00:02:04.640 bottom of the hour. If he misses this. We know that he is extraordinarily busy. I talked to him

00:02:12.080 yesterday. There's some there's some amazing things going on in Washington, D.C., some amazing

00:02:17.760 things that are happening. And we better get a handle on our Constitution fast.

00:02:25.100 You think we still need it? I mean, we have the Green New Deal. If we could just implement that 0.98

00:02:29.240 as the new Constitution. I mean, think of how much time it would save. Yeah, because I mean,

00:02:33.300 sure, there's constitutional problems. Sure. Something like the Green New Deal. But if you 0.96

00:02:37.040 just kind of push it through and make it the thing, then you don't have to worry about the

00:02:41.840 constitutional problems. I was I we've learned so much about the environment. I was very excited

00:02:48.280 to see a new study that came out about plastic bags versus reusable bags. Yes. Now, I brought this

00:02:56.060 up at dinner last night with my daughter. Oh, good for you. Good for you. Went over well. So there's

00:03:01.240 been look, I thought science was just accept. You're supposed to accept the science as it

00:03:07.980 happens. OK, yes. And she and she does. The the problem is the problem is is the sea. And

00:03:16.600 we'll get into that. Yeah, I just we have Mike on and he's only got until 830. So you've only

00:03:21.860 got now we've only got about three minutes, Mike, unless you want to talk after the break,

00:03:26.540 too. But I'll I know your schedule's tight. How are you, sir? Doing great. Good. Great. Good.

00:03:34.820 Can you can can we talk just a little bit here about what's happening on the border? I mean,

00:03:40.140 I think we have the human wave theory happening. You know, the human wave theory that it's a it's a

00:03:45.360 a war tactic where you just you just have wave after wave after wave until you overwhelm the

00:03:51.920 system. And then, you know, the other country collapses. Isn't that what we have going on in

00:03:57.560 the border, Mike? Certainly what we're going to be faced with, whether there's any one person who

00:04:04.160 has that as their intention or whether every person spilling over through the border has that as their

00:04:09.740 intention. This is what happens when you have year after year of lax border enforcement. So it's

00:04:15.980 also what happens when you encourage people to bring children, whether it's your own children or

00:04:20.740 somebody else's to come across promising to release them if they're traveling with a child.

00:04:24.840 OK, so so we have this where they they want it both ways. The Democrats do. You can't.

00:04:31.960 Does the president have the right to say no more, no more asylum? We are full up on asylum unless you 0.69

00:04:41.720 go to your local embassy or you apply for it, but you can't apply for it at our border.

00:04:47.300 Does he have the right to say that? Asylum law is tricky, but there are some levers that the executive

00:04:53.700 branch of government does, in fact, control. And I think there are some things he can do to be more

00:04:58.940 restrictive on this. One of the things that I would like to see is an aggressive move toward

00:05:04.160 easing the impact of the so-called Flores settlement. This is the settlement that requires

00:05:11.820 us to release people within 20 days if they're traveling with a child. It's ridiculous and it's 0.96

00:05:16.700 encouraging human trafficking of the worst sort. Right. Mike, I'm sorry I've got a break. If you'd like 0.99

00:05:22.400 to hold, we'd love to have you and talk about some other issues. We're covering the border and we're

00:05:26.940 showing you the connections to these caravans right to Chicago. This is a well laid out, well orchestrated

00:05:36.080 group of people that have been flying under the radar. And as we found it, because we started

00:05:43.160 checking addresses and gee, all these organizations had exactly the same address. That's how we found out

00:05:50.020 about Acorn. Do you remember that? It all led to one building in New Orleans. We'll give you more on

00:05:57.860 that coming up in just a second. That's tonight at five o'clock. Also Thursday, Joe Biden and the

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00:06:40.960 Mike Lee is with us. Mike, I, I want to give you the benefit of the doubt on something

00:06:46.840 because I don't think I've ever disagreed with anything that you had. And if I did,

00:06:53.100 if I listened to you for two seconds, I was like, oh, okay, I get it. This, this whole flexibility act

00:07:01.340 where it's the family leave thing. I don't understand how, how you are, you are pushing this and doing

00:07:09.120 this. Can you help us out? Yeah, sure. I'd be happy to. You're talking about the cradle act,

00:07:14.240 the cradle act would allow a young mother or father upon the birth or adoption of a child

00:07:23.360 to choose to take a short term social security benefit following the birth or adoption of that

00:07:30.480 baby in exchange for a delay in his or her retirement date of twice that length. So they

00:07:37.640 would have the option of taking one, two or three months off and take a limited social security benefit

00:07:44.000 during that time period following the birth of a child, if they want to stay home with the child

00:07:47.600 and then in exchange for that delay their retirement by a corresponding two, four or

00:07:53.120 six months, uh, at the end of their career. But there, but there, there is no pot, uh, of social

00:08:01.860 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

00:08:09.760 having a baby, uh, it's still, uh, that I doubt that social security is going to be around. So

00:08:16.040 aren't we just putting, aren't we just borrowing more money, uh, to be able to do this?

00:08:22.660 No, this proposal is budget neutral. This proposal, uh, is actuarial sound, uh, actuarially sound,

00:08:32.060 and it would not do anything to destabilize the fund. Uh, look, social security takes money out

00:08:40.100 of people's paychecks and it does so with the promise and the understanding that it's their

00:08:44.600 money and it'll be there for them at retirement. My point here is that there is at least one other

00:08:49.800 time in the life of a taxpayer when an American up to have access to that benefit, should they choose

00:08:56.400 to take it? They ought to have this option after they have a child. I understand that certainly

00:09:02.940 the motivation here in that, you know, you know, you obviously family is incredibly important and

00:09:07.160 it's something you've, you've, you've fought for, you know, the entire time you've been in the Senate.

00:09:10.600 I am a, and I wonder if you are as well, a tad concerned that we would be creating another,

00:09:16.520 you know, big moment in people's lives in which they have to look to the federal government for,

00:09:22.460 you know, to, to, to hold a big role in that event. I mean, if you remember the

00:09:26.340 Life of Julia cartoon they did back in the Obama campaign, you know, it was every big moment of

00:09:32.880 Julia's life was associated with some benefit from the federal government. And are we not creating

00:09:37.780 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

00:09:44.300 doing quite the opposite of that. So instead of going with Julia, let's come up with a hypothetical

00:09:48.300 young woman whom we'll call Glenna. Wait a minute. Glenna, at the time she has a baby,

00:09:55.200 has already been paying into the social security system for years. She will be paying into the

00:10:01.440 social security system for decades after the birth of her child. So Glenna ought to have the freedom 1.00

00:10:08.220 to choose to delay her retirement date in order to spend a few weeks at home with her baby. That is 1.00

00:10:14.920 not a new government program. That is simply making an existing government program more flexible in

00:10:20.420 order to accommodate Glenna at the time she gives birth to a child. Okay. So, so let's say Glenna

00:10:26.300 approves. So I, I, you might like that. All right. So I agree with that. I think that makes sense.

00:10:32.980 My problem is social security, the Glenna knows it's not going to be there at 65 or 68 or 88. It's just

00:10:45.420 not going to be there. This is an unworkable, unsustainable system.

00:10:52.140 The unsustainability of social security is not in any way accelerated by this move.

00:10:59.260 The fact that it has been made unsustainable is as a result of decisions made by Congresses over

00:11:05.740 the course of many decades. There are a lot of things we could do to make that better and a lot

00:11:09.760 of things we could do to make that worse. Okay. So this bill in particular would do nothing to

00:11:14.400 either accelerate or halt the demise of the social security program. This one just keeps it on the

00:11:20.760 same path. Okay. So wait, so are we borrowing to pay for social security?

00:11:28.120 Yes, we are. As a result of budgetary decisions made, there's nothing about this bill that would

00:11:32.880 accelerate that because this would come about only as a result of decisions that would be offset

00:11:41.320 both in the short term and the long term by, among other things, the delay and the ultimate

00:11:47.120 retirement date. And that, by the way, is ultimately something that we're going to have to look at

00:11:52.260 as a way of saving social security is to acclimate people to the idea that Americans are living longer

00:11:57.040 as they live longer. We have to be moving toward a system that indexes the retirement age according

00:12:03.060 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

00:12:10.680 who are being forced into retirement, especially work for the federal government. And they're like,

00:12:16.640 Bernie Sanders is like 900 years old. And he's not forced to retire. You know, I don't know people

00:12:25.020 that want to go away at 65 years old. Now, you know, I'm sure there's a lot of blue collar workers

00:12:31.100 that will say, shut your mouth, Glenn. But it's 65. My grandfather was old when he died at 60, I think

00:12:40.700 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

00:12:48.460 in your 60s today. That's exactly right. And at the time, the social security program was created.

00:12:55.560 People on average didn't live much past 60. And so as a result, they weren't spending many decades

00:13:02.600 of their life as social security beneficiaries. Now, people are living longer today. We're happy

00:13:07.920 that that's the case. We hope that very trend will continue. As long as that trend is continuing,

00:13:14.320 we do have to take into account the economic realities that that creates for social security.

00:13:20.140 Do you feel bad that you've scarred the audience by giving them a mental image of a woman named

00:13:23.960 Glenna? Oh, I knew a woman named Glenna once. She was a lovely person. So a sweet spirit.

00:13:32.440 Yeah, she was beautiful on the inside. Right. So we don't have the picture and image of Glenn

00:13:38.680 back in feminine form. Okay, that is what I did. Think about the bucket of chicken and somebody who 0.99

00:13:46.040 looks like Colonel Sanders, but on the inside is lovely. Colonel Sanders with his wee beady eyes

00:13:52.760 saying, oh yeah, you're going to buy my chicken. While putting an addictive chemical in it that makes you crave it fortnightly.

00:13:59.080 I love a man who can quote that movie. God bless you. Thanks so much, Mike.

00:14:03.380 Thank you. You bet. Bye-bye.

00:14:04.920 It's an interesting key. You know what the movie is?

00:14:09.320 Did anybody know what the movie is? What is the movie?

00:14:11.700 Yeah, So I Married an Axe Murderer. Oh yeah, of course. You quote two movies. It's either

00:14:16.140 So I Married an Axe Murderer or Princess Bride or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Those are the only three 0.97

00:14:20.780 things you know. Those are the only three references you have. Now, I will be saying, I have like Rocky

00:14:28.160 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

00:14:33.600 any day of the week. Rocky 1, come talk to me. Rocky 3 and 4, I don't want to see you.

00:14:40.520 That is right from the lips of Glenn Wiener.

00:14:46.040 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:15:03.640 Hey, Alana Mar update. Have you have you heard about her requesting the United States to step

00:15:22.220 in and save this Muslim Brotherhood? No, no, no. Have you heard her thoughts on 9-11? 0.61

00:15:29.320 No. Really, really powerful. I thought she might be against it.

00:15:32.960 It's kind of like you got chocolate in my peanut butter. Let's put these two together and see what

00:15:38.960 we have. All right, what do you have? All right, here's Alana Mar on talking about 9-11 and care

00:15:46.620 and its creation. Care was founded after 9-11. Nope. Because they recognized that some people did

00:15:54.680 something. Wait, what? And that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.

00:16:00.940 Oh, okay. So that's her description of 9-11. Some people did something. That's true. Yeah. Some

00:16:09.260 extremist Muslims killed 3,000 innocent Americans. That's the something these people did. But it is 0.99

00:16:16.980 hard to argue with the idea that some people did something. Yeah, that is true. It is true. That

00:16:21.940 some people did something. I just found it in an unusual description of 9-11. I've never heard it

00:16:27.280 before. And then, you know, first of all, care wasn't developed after. It wasn't put together

00:16:33.500 after 9-11. No, no. No, no. No, no. That can't be. She just said it. I know she did. Yeah. She did.

00:16:38.600 She lied. She lied. She lied. Yeah. Care was actually started by the Palestinian Council, 0.91

00:16:46.000 which is a direct arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Palestinian Council was told, you need to have 0.99

00:16:53.800 a think tank, which has been since disbanded. You need to have a propaganda arm, which became

00:16:59.520 care. And you need to have a fundraising arm for Hamas, which was eventually, those people 0.85

00:17:06.860 were thrown in prison. So the only one that was remaining is the propaganda arm of the Muslim 1.00

00:17:14.780 Brotherhood and the sister organization of Hamas. It's just amazing. That's care. And they were formed 0.56

00:17:23.220 in the 90s, right? I mean, so maybe you could say they were formed after the first World Trade

00:17:28.140 Center bombing, but not 9-11. No. And formed, you know, she makes Muslims, American Muslims sound 0.99

00:17:36.600 like the victims of 9-11. They weren't. They were not. I mean, some of them were in the

00:17:43.480 towers, right? Yes.

00:17:44.520 Yes. You know? Yes. But I mean, you cannot, again, disagree that it was formed after some

00:17:49.680 people did something. That is true. It is still true. And she's nailed that one.

00:17:54.740 This woman needs to go. She needs to be impeached. This woman is really dangerous. She's really 1.00

00:17:58.560 a danger. So here's a tweet from her. I recently met with a couple of people to talk about Hoda

00:18:03.960 Abdullaman. Some people. Just call some people. Some people. Some people. A political prisoner

00:18:09.840 in Egypt. I hope Trump brings up her case in his meeting with the regime that has imprisoned

00:18:14.980 her. Now, the regime that imprisoned her was Al-Sisi's regime, the one who put the Muslim 1.00

00:18:20.900 Brotherhood out of business. Because remember what they were doing? Oh, yeah, that's right.

00:18:25.960 They were burning churches down and crucifying Christians and all of that stuff. She said that

00:18:32.580 regime imprisoned her. We must work to free Hoda. Okay. All right. So who is she? Well,

00:18:41.180 she's just a wonderful person, wonderful person that happens to be, you know, directly connected

00:18:47.460 to the Muslim Brotherhood. This is a terrorist organization, a terrorist organization. By the 0.98

00:18:55.200 way, one of the one of the people I think that she is posing with in a picture was featured 0.98

00:19:04.240 in an Al Jazeera produced video dramatizing mom's situation as a human rights crisis. Now,

00:19:11.100 this is the boy in the picture with Al-Anamar. She is. She's posing with the son of this Hoda

00:19:20.600 woman that is in there. Uh, he, uh, after he was on Al Jazeera, she reached out and she's

00:19:29.060 like, Oh, I want to help your Muslim Brotherhood mom. Why? Well, because again, care who is holding 0.99

00:19:36.180 her hand the entire time is a, the parent organization of, I'm sorry, the parent organization

00:19:45.160 of care is the Muslim Brotherhood. If the Muslim Brotherhood has people in prison, she's going 1.00

00:19:53.800 to stand up for them because she is being backed by the propaganda arm care of the Muslim Brotherhood. 0.82

00:20:01.480 So this is, this is, this is foreign agent kind of stuff. Yeah. I mean, she, she calls herself

00:20:08.440 a second class. So she's tired of being treated like a second class citizen. I don't know. She goes

00:20:12.500 on to say, this is the best of the Glenn Beck program. I want to tell you real quick, we're

00:20:30.640 going to talk next hour about our kids. The suicide rate is, has almost doubled again, uh, with our kids

00:20:38.280 under 13. It is terrifying what's going on. The experts say one thing. I have quite a different

00:20:43.580 take on it. We'll give that to you next hour. Also, we're going to talk about the, uh, higher

00:20:48.180 ed scandal that is going on. I shouldn't say scan scam that is going on. That's after the top of

00:20:54.100 the hour. I'd like to see those suicide rates matched up against the increased use of reusable

00:20:57.980 garbage, uh, grocery bags. Really? Yeah. Because, uh, you know, there's a huge thing that's out now

00:21:03.160 that if you have to, for every reusable bag you use, you have to reuse it 7,100 times to equal,

00:21:11.540 uh, a plastic bag at a grocery store. Now, many of you may not use that reusable bag that many

00:21:17.800 times. However, if it's organic cotton, it's 20,000 times you have to reuse it. Now, here's my

00:21:23.320 daughter's argument on this. Uh, first of all, the oceans, and we can get into that later, but she

00:21:28.260 said, the problem is, is that we're not, we're going out, we're creating a new industry of these

00:21:34.600 new bags. She's like, you don't go out and buy a new bag for this. You use a bag that you already

00:21:41.760 have. The problem is, is that it's created this environmental thing is creating a whole new butt

00:21:49.360 load of, of products for you to go out and buy and own. So you're not reducing. No, of course not.

00:21:56.540 Um, also there, it's really unhealthy. Um, they did a study of this university of Pennsylvania and

00:22:01.160 George Mason did the study of this when they banned plastic bags in San Francisco. And, uh, in the wake

00:22:07.120 of that, they had a 46% increase in food, foodborne illness. Wow. They found, uh, deaths and ER visits

00:22:13.980 spiked as soon as the ban went into effect. And it's because people put meat and vegetables in,

00:22:19.880 in their bags. They throw it in their hot trunk. It cooks in there. And then they go back with the

00:22:25.600 same bag the next time and buy new food and produce rolls around and all that you're supposed

00:22:29.820 to be washing them in between every use. And if you do, you have absolutely no environmental

00:22:35.880 impact. Even if you include all the Marine waste with the plastic bags, which by the way,

00:22:41.060 90% of it comes from China. So that's a whole nother situation, but it's, it is amazing the way they,

00:22:47.160 they're able to create these brand new industries. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:23:05.080 Adam Andrzejewski is, uh, with us now. He is a CEO and founder of open the books.com.

00:23:11.420 It works to capture and post all disclosed spending at every level of government, federal,

00:23:17.140 state, and local. Uh, they have, uh, successfully captured nearly $4 billion in public expenditures,

00:23:24.860 rapidly growing their data in all 50 States. Uh, they are a government watchdog organization.

00:23:30.520 They do not accept any government funding. Uh, he and Steven Moore, a friend of the program

00:23:36.420 worked on an article called the biggest college scandal of them all. And we welcome you Adam to

00:23:41.740 the program. How are you? Glenn, thank you very much. Thank you for your interest in our work.

00:23:46.020 Yeah, you bet. Um, this is to me, I have been watching this for about 20 years now,

00:23:52.300 and everybody talks about the price of healthcare and the price of food and the price of gas and

00:23:56.520 everything else. And no one has talked about the price of college, at least at the government level,

00:24:02.380 because they're enabling, uh, this to happen and it is breaking our back. Tell me what you found.

00:24:10.960 So we found basically seven facts that Americans don't know regarding higher education. Uh, so it's,

00:24:18.560 you know, the biggest scandal facing, uh, higher ed is certainly the cost of higher education. And you

00:24:24.880 mentioned the 1.7 trillion in student debt, but that now exceeds the $1 trillion Americans have put on

00:24:31.420 their credit cards or the 1.1 trillion that we've accumulated in debt on auto loans. So it's a huge,

00:24:37.320 huge amount of money. Um, you know, one of the most troubling facts that we found is that the,

00:24:42.840 um, the American people are paying for wealthy schools to get even richer. We found that the top

00:24:49.360 25 schools in the country, they hold a collective endowment. That's money in the bank of a quarter

00:24:55.480 trillion dollars of endowment funds. They don't need taxpayer help, but just last year,

00:25:00.260 the American taxpayer put $7 billion worth of federal, uh, taxpayer subsidies into those 25

00:25:07.160 wealthy schools. And they need to lighten the load in the American taxpayer. 0.85

00:25:10.620 I remember, uh, Adam, this years ago, I just on the back of an envelope did some figuring and just

00:25:16.540 on the, the interest that they are accruing every year, Harvard could pay for everybody that goes to

00:25:23.240 Harvard. And I think they could open up like six satellite schools and they wouldn't, the principal

00:25:28.240 would have never been touched. Well, you're right about that. So we did analysis of the eight

00:25:32.740 schools of the Ivy league and collectively they hold North of $120 billion. We forecast that by

00:25:39.740 over the next 20 years, they'll hold a trillion dollar endowment. And you're exactly right, Glenn.

00:25:44.740 They, they, um, could finance the next 51 years with no further gifts, free tuition for every single

00:25:52.720 undergraduate student. So why is the federal government involved in this? This is, this is,

00:26:01.200 this would be like giving Apple, uh, welfare. They don't need it. 0.98

00:26:07.560 So, you know, all of this, um, federal student aid was supposed to make college more affordable,

00:26:12.140 but I think higher ed has once again, proved the rule, uh, that the fastest way to make something

00:26:17.120 really expensive is for Washington DC politicians, Glenn, to throw more public money at a problem,

00:26:23.140 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

00:26:52.320 the, uh, colleges from saying, you know what, everybody's happy. They're just gonna, they're

00:26:58.420 just gonna take the loan out anyway, cause they don't have a choice. Just keep raising the price.

00:27:02.920 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

00:27:35.360 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.

00:27:47.380 They can only do it because we, the American taxpayer funding them to such a great degree.

00:27:54.520 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.

00:28:24.240 So what is this, what is this headed towards?

00:28:28.120 Well, look, the, uh, education secretary, Betsy DeVos, uh, in many ways, she's been a pioneer

00:28:34.380 and a reformer in higher education. But right now she wants to actually weaken accreditation 0.94

00:28:39.720 standards. So you're going to get more schools like these beauty schools. You're going to get 1.00

00:28:43.740 more schools like a music and design academy that charges between $38,000 and $48,000 a year on

00:28:51.660 tuition. And they admit that their average graduate comes out and only makes $28,000 a year. We don't

00:28:58.700 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,

00:29:20.260 after graduating from the School of Gaming?

00:29:22.600 Well, and that begs the question, Glenn, do you like your tax dollars shaken or stirred?

00:29:28.380 Jeez. This is, this is nuts.

00:29:32.500 That one at least sounds fun. I mean, you know, I don't know.

00:29:35.700 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

00:30:39.640 gigantic, uh, uh, funds behind them?

00:30:44.700 So I think there's, you know, three nonpartisan reforms that the secretary DeVos can bring forth.

00:30:49.480 One is wealthy colleges must make themselves affordable. Glenn, there's no public purpose

00:30:55.620 argument for working in middle-class taxpayers to fund the Harvards, the Notre Dames, the Stanfords.

00:31:02.300 They literally have all the money in the world. May need to lighten the load on the American 0.95

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.

00:31:25.560 Why are we doing it?

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

00:32:14.060 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

00:33:04.900 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.

00:35:06.040 Thank you, Glenn.

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

00:35:14.300 scandal of all from the Washington times. It is well worth the time to read the blaze radio network

00:35:23.060 on demand.

The Glenn Beck Program - April 09, 2019

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