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This Congressman has to be one of the worst if not the worst in US History to
attempt to pay the deficits by the student loans. This will do nothing more than do
permanent harm to those people that need assistance for college.
I believe that the profits being earned by the Department of Education on student
loans should be required to give out more "Pell Grants". This will make more
students able to afford to live better after they get their college degrees.
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Kline is everything you don't want in a Congressman.We as a nation have to decide
what we want for the future.. Today it is nothing to graduate a 4 year college and
owe $200,000 in student loans.As a country who is trailing in all the STEM sciences
why are we discouraging our best minds? Who will tackle the problems that lie
ahead of us? Then you have nations like Denmark that actually pay their students
to go to college simply because they want a well educated population.. Our values
are totally screwed up..
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