{"id":17595,"date":"2011-10-27T16:37:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:37:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-02-26T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T19:04:35","slug":"the_big_education_racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/10\/27\/the_big_education_racket\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Education Racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR\/>RUSH: Rasmussen went out and asked people what they thought of the whole notion of forgiving student loans. Sixty-six percent oppose forgiveness of student loans. One of the loudest demands of the <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17590\">Occupy Wall Street protesters <\/a>is forgiveness of the nearly $1 trillion worth of student loans, but Rasmussen, as I say, went out and surveyed and they found that 66% of Americans opposed the whole thing. You know, it really is a racket. It\u2019s an interesting loop or circle for generation after generation. We\u2019ve all been pressured. I\u2019ve told the story numbers of times.<\/line><img id=\"eZObject_55636\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125108.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>My father, up until the last five years of his life thought he was a failure because he was unable to convince me to go to college. Formative experience, two of them in his life, the Great Depression and World War II. Great Depression, it was true, if you were without a college degree in and around that period of time, you really did face long odds in getting a job. Of course when I was growing up there was no Great Depression; there was nothing like it. But it was such a formative experience for people that lived through it that it became a value system. It was a huge thing and it always has been a huge thing: got to go to college. My problem with it has always been, college to me never equaled education. Learning equaled education. And I always had a problem learning in forced, mass circumstances like schools where everybody had to conform and everybody was taught the same thing, and what you were interested in was of secondary importance.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_55634\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125108.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\"\/><BR\/>College. If I could have audited classes, meaning if I coulda gone and just picked the courses I wanted to go to, things I really cared about, go in there, learn what was being lectured or taught, not take a test, don\u2019t get any credit for it, just go in, leave, whatever, it would have been far more preferable to me. But, no, no, no, no, that wouldn\u2019t work because you didn\u2019t have any proof. You didn\u2019t have a degree. So there was social status attached with a degree, all the things wrapped up into it. While this is going on, every generation is under &#8212; well, it was pressure, but it was almost a cultural requirement, systemic norm that you had to go to college. If you didn\u2019t go to college, you were hopeless. Your prospects were dimmed. You weren\u2019t going to learn anything. I can\u2019t tell you the things I was warned were gonna happen to me if I didn\u2019t get a college degree.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>The pressure was intense and I continued to resist it because I wasn\u2019t interested in it. I knew way before college what I wanted to do, and all I wanted to do was things oriented toward advancing what I had already found out that I loved, and there wasn\u2019t one thing &#8212; well, not true. There were maybe two or three areas of college that were interesting to me, and I did excel in \u2019em. But it wasn\u2019t enough to overshadow the F\u2019s I got in all the other classes. I just never equated it with learning. I still love learning to this day. It\u2019s one of the most exhilarating things. And I think learning is key, keeping your mind active, to remaining young at heart, rather than stagnating, and if you like learning you\u2019re gonna have a much easier time of it if you have the time, the freedom, the ability to focus on what it is you want to learn. It\u2019s impossible to know everything. (interruption) What do you mean, too much truth? I\u2019m not saying that.<\/p>\n<p>Snerdley\u2019s afraid that I\u2019m hitting you people with too much truth, that I am setting a bad example for the young skulls full of mush listening to this program. They\u2019re now gonna walk into their parents\u2019 house, &#8220;See, see? Look at Rush, he doesn\u2019t like college, he didn\u2019t go to the college, I don\u2019t want to go.&#8221; And you\u2019re gonna get mad at me for undue, improper influence of your young children. Well, that\u2019s not my intention here. I\u2019m merely sharing my passions with you. I\u2019m sharing my own experiences, and as I always do, my own opinions. (interruption) No, I was never scared that I didn\u2019t finish college. The one thing when I left home, I looked at it as a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>I left home at age 20, after two basically worthless semesters of college. The story is now legion. I flunked speech class twice. I, El Rushbo, el primo communicator in America, flunked speech class. You know why? Because it wasn\u2019t a speech class. This is exactly my point. It was an outline class. I showed up. I gave every speech. But I didn\u2019t outline \u2019em. I had already developed another technique for giving speeches. I ad-libbed \u2019em. I gave speeches on subjects I knew about. I didn\u2019t need notes. Well, I flunked \u2019cause I didn\u2019t follow the course. This is the kind of stuff, I said, &#8220;This is a waste of my time.&#8221; But I understood, the educators gotta have systems for dealing with large groups and masses of people. They can\u2019t tailor education to individuals when you got 200 of them in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. So I just figured it wasn\u2019t for me. But what happened to me, when I finally left home at age 20, after one year of accomplishing nothing, essentially, in college, I realized, sort of like a slap to the face, I realized at that point that I was going to have to be able to demonstrate my education. I wasn\u2019t gonna have a diploma that said, &#8220;This is an educated person.&#8221; I was gonna have to demonstrate it. So I became an omnivorous, voluminous reader, and that worked well with my career because show prep has always been show prep, and I\u2019ve always had a never-ending quest to keep learning, to know things. So it was a challenge. Demonstrating what I knew meant being able to use the language properly. Read it, write it, spell it, all of these things. And it became a personal challenge to me.<\/p>\n<p>My whole life has been show prep, essentially, being prepared to have to demonstrate what I know because I don\u2019t have this magical piece of paper which says so. I also knew that I was not gonna be able to seek careers in places that required that piece of paper. Okay, fine. That limits. I didn\u2019t want to do it anyway. Cool. If I wanted to do it I\u2019d have stayed in college. Now, I\u2019m not suggesting that everybody punt college. &#8216;Cause I realize for most people, college is a weigh station. It\u2019s the next thing you do when you don\u2019t know what you want to do. You go there, society says that\u2019s where you go, and this is what happens when you go there. You come out, you\u2019re educated; you\u2019re well-rounded; you\u2019re informed; you learn social skills, all that rot, and you are prepared, and, you know, all of these things that are attached to it that equal social status.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_55635\" class=\"alignleft\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125108.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\"\/><BR\/>So people go to these colleges, universities as a weigh station, hoping that while they\u2019re there they find out their passion, they discover it, what they want to do. Some people know it when they go there. Again, not everybody\u2019s the same. But I just look at it now, the student loan business run by Obama, and I think I see the racket that this is. Now, I am fully aware that there are great institutions for education in this country. There are plenty of good universities and colleges. It\u2019s not all a racket. But I just find it fascinating that while the price of gasoline goes up we target a whole industry, Big Oil.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>The subprime loan business happens, so what do we do? We protest on the lawns of executives at Wall Street firms that people have been made to believe had a role in the subprime mortgage thing. If the price of anything goes up, we protest that industry. The Democrat Party and the American left have their enemies list, and it\u2019s basically any private sector industry that is a success. The one institution in this country that is immune from such attack is education. Those people can charge whatever they want! Tuition could go up 200% and there\u2019s never one peep about it. The Democrat Party and the American left never make Big Education justify what they\u2019re doing. They never try to drum up hate for them. They never demonize them. They never try to get you to despise \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>They never try to get you to distrust \u2019em. They want people paying these exorbitant fees when it comes to college tuition, and what\u2019s the system to make it possible? Student loans! It\u2019s like the subprime mortgage business. &#8220;You can\u2019t afford a house? That\u2019s not fair. We\u2019re gonna see to it that you can get into one anyway.&#8221; &#8220;You can\u2019t afford to go to college? That\u2019s not fair. You don\u2019t have a chance if you don\u2019t go to college. We\u2019re gonna make sure you can go there. Here\u2019s a student loan. You\u2019re gonna go for four years. We\u2019re gonna teach you nothing that\u2019s worthwhile. We\u2019re gonna teach you nothing useful. You\u2019re gonna be indebted to us $200,000 when it\u2019s all over. The rest of your working life is gonna be spent paying us off. You owe us,&#8221; meaning the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of our friends are in higher education: The teachers, the teachers\u2019 assistants, the professors. They are the ones who benefit from this never-ending tuition price increase, fee increases, what have you. It\u2019s the one American industry that is never demonized. No matter what it does. Price goes up? It would be the equivalent of if the Democrat Party and the American left had an incestuous relationship with Big Oil: The price of gasoline jumps up one day a buck a gallon let\u2019s say, and everybody in the country\u2019s whining and moaning. &#8220;How can this be?&#8221; and instead of the Democrat Party joining that chorus and bringing the Big Oil execs up and grilling \u2019em and accusing them of raping people and ripping \u2019em off, the government comes up with gasoline insurance, or gas loans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here, we\u2019ll loan you money to buy the gasoline &#8212; and after 20 years, if you can\u2019t pay it off, we\u2019ll forgive it and we\u2019ll make the other taxpayers pay it off for you,&#8221; and I\u2019m just saying that the racket (and it is one) works well because for all of these generations it is axiomatic: &#8220;Our children must go to college. Must.&#8221; Almost as axiomatic now as: &#8220;Everyone must have health care. Must! It\u2019s a constitutional right, just like the right to a lawyer.&#8221; If going to college equaled education, I\u2019d have a lot fewer problems with it. But it doesn\u2019t. Too often it\u2019s an indoctrination or a propagandization or what have you. I\u2019m not trying to get anybody irritated here, and I\u2019m not trying to be too honest. It\u2019s just&#8230; Folks, I understand liberals. I know how they try to control. I know how they try to limit people\u2019s freedom. I know how they try to dumb down people in order to get them compliant and dependent. Gosh, the damage they\u2019ve done to this country and the people of this country is just incalculable. It breaks my heart and ticks me off at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, for many people &#8212; and I mean this &#8212; a student loan itself is one of the biggest education events in their lives. A student loan is, &#8220;Welcome to the real world, kid.&#8221; Getting that big a loan, being responsible for it, having to pay it off. You know, another industry that\u2019s not demonized is Hollywood. Hollywood can charge you whatever they want at the box office, for DVDs. I don\u2019t care what they do. They are not even demonized for content. They used to be a couple of groups now and then have congressional hearings on some of the content. Very, very, very rarely. They also are immune. They are approved. I think in way too many places college, higher education, is just a branch office to the Democrat National Committee.<\/p>\n<p>We know that the Ivy League is used to train people to live and work in government as a career from the Big Government perspective, that government\u2019s the center of the universe, that government\u2019s the center of the world, that government\u2019s the center of everybody\u2019s life. That\u2019s the purpose of the Ivy League education. What do you think the purpose of the Kennedy School is at Harvard, the Kennedy School of Government? It\u2019s to train you where to go to buy the right shoes if you work in the State Department; where to go to buy the right suit; on what occasion do you wear the tails. All the social, finer points and s, all the language, all the techniques.<\/p>\n<p>They find you for the CIA there, they find you for the State Department there, they find you for any number of places there. (chuckles) Yes, yeah. At Yale you can join the Skulls. Well, the Skulls find you. Skull and Bones. It\u2019s a racket. It\u2019s a racket. Now, obviously there\u2019s a benefit to it for a lot of people. I\u2019m not universally panning it. I\u2019m just trying to make a point here that you check the Democrat Party and every industry they demonize the minute the price of their product goes up a penny or the minute they get a tax break, and then you look at how silent they are when the price of an education quadruples every year and their solution to it is for you to go into more debt to be able to have access to it. That\u2019s all I\u2019m saying. Nothing more, nothing less.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: My personal slogan when it came to going to college:<a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=18257\"> &#8220;Resist We Much!&#8221; <\/a>Even before I knew that was my slogan, that I was my slogan.<\/line><img id=\"eZObject_55643\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushLimbaughInstituteResistWeMuch.jpg\"\/><BR\/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Yeah, I think that\u2019s true. There are other reasons why college tuitions are so expensive. A, you have all those scholarships out there. However, a football scholarship probably pays for itself how many times over. You have the college scholarships, and then you have the mandatory student aid that\u2019s out there. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m still amazed, folks. With all the money, still the universities are there soliciting donations and contributions and (sigh) I marvel at the amount of money circulating throughout every area of our society, and no matter what area we\u2019re talking about, they\u2019re all &#8220;underfunded.&#8221; I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s education, if it\u2019s medicine, it\u2019s pensions, everything\u2019s underfunded! In other words, we\u2019re spending more than anybody is taking in &#8212; and it contributes to this whole notion that nothing is real. It\u2019s all been built on dreams, loans, debt, what have you &#8212; I mean, exorbitantly so. Don\u2019t forget, look, a lot of these institutions of higher learning have these endowments. Harvard, Columbia. Sometimes earning 20, 22% on their endowment investments. And they don\u2019t pay any taxes on their Wall Street profits. I\u2019m telling you, folks, it\u2019s an ingenious racket.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Rasmussen went out and asked people what they thought of the whole notion of forgiving student loans. Sixty-six percent oppose forgiveness of student loans. 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