schatz, is that correct? >> schatz. >> okay. we'll recognize you for five minutes for your testimony. >> mr. chairman, ranking members of the subcommittee, we represent every school and college and training program relative to the usage of the gi bill. the idea of adopting and applying principles of excellence as outlined in the executive order is consistent with sound educational philosophy and practices and is currently recognized, respected, and implemented throughout much of the education community. our experience tells us that while some of the proposed requirements in the executive order may be helpful to the achievement of the present schools, they also could result in the establishment of measures and systems that duplicate other approaches and services that already meet the objectives, although in varying degrees of comprehensiveness. full execution of the executive order principles could lead to increased work for institutions and other entities without proportional value being added to the process of helping veterans

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schatz, in addition to your suggestion to restore the saa's role in approving courses, what specific cways can they assist the v.a. in what's being called predatory practices? >> i'll be happy to answer that. contrary to the general's statement and with great respect, compliance surveys do not look at that. they look at the appropriate payments, things like that. i was on a compliance survey not long ago at one of our larger institutions with a v.a. employee who asked the school to provide copies of their advertising, and we looked at it and it's perfectly fine. it's hard to tell what a predatory practice may be in a compliance survey. it's easier to talk to veterans and say why did you choose this school? anything thing that came out when i was participating in a gao interview about predatory practices with several of our nasa colleagues, one of the questions was basically what is a predatory and aggressive recruiting practice? one of my colleagues said it may be that what we perceive to be aggressive is what veterans to be good marketing and good student customer service. for examp

a sign of those two signs you correctly mention that interest rates went to zero on the two year schatz very very briefly but the rates have been rising and i think that is actually poppy reflection of some of things we've been talking about and that capital will end up in the as you call it the clipper category but not necessarily germany to end up in switzerland it'll end up in the u.k. and well first it might even end up in american banks so i think europe itself is basically going to have a de facto if not a de jure a beach lies ation of debt to all of this process and the germans are going have to pay for all of this and that's going to dampen european growth for a very long period of time i don't see the germans being winners out of this they've got to be a loser along with the rest of them remember main john maynard keynes famous saying if i owe the bank a thousand pounds i have a problem if i owe them in this case they truly and. they have a problem and i think that's what's going to play out all right so clearly the planets are revolving around germany melissa ask is terminated