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Puts Student Loan Debate In New Light

by David Kurtz
04.25.12 | 11:25 am

Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) says the federal government shouldn’t be involved in student loans at all: “America has got the equivalent of the stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.”

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