Texas Congressman Ron Paul appeared on Meet the Press earlier today with David Gregory in a “Meet the Candidate” interview with wide-ranging topics.
Report from Politico:
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential contender Ron Paul said Sunday he wants to end federal student loans, calling it a failed program that has put students $1 trillion in debt when there are no jobs and when the quality of education has deteriorated.
Paul unveiled a plan last week to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget that would eliminate five Cabinet departments, including education. He’s also wants young workers to be able to opt out of Social Security.
The student loan program is not part of those cuts, but Paul said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he’d kill the loan program eventually if he were president. That could put him at odds with some of his young followers, many of whom are college students.
Paul blamed government intervention in the economy for rising tuition.
“Just think of all this willingness to want to help every student get a college education,” said Paul, who graduated from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania before earning a medical degree at the Duke University School of Medicine. “I went to school when we had none of those. I could work my way through college and medical school because it wasn’t so expensive.”
Ron Paul is seeing stronger support this time around compared to 2008, however, he has hit a ceiling in many polls since his foreign policy views don’t typically fall in line with “mainstream” Republican views. Paul’s recently unveiled economic plan with drastically cuts government growth and spending is very popular with some voting blocks within the GOP but translating that into winning the nomination will be tough.
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