Sen. Claire answers another horrible Todd Akin quote with a listening tour at Missouri Universities . . . Check it:
McCaskill to Launch "On Our Campus, On Our Side" Statewide Listening Tour Will visit campuses in all four corners of the state to discuss importance of affordable college loans
Columbia, Mo. – On Tuesday, September 4, Senator Claire McCaskill will kick off a statewide "On Our Campus, On Our Side" listening tour with stops at the University of Missouri in Columbia and Westminster College in Fulton where she will discuss the clear choice in this election between herself, a Senator consistently on the side of Missouri's students and their families; and Todd Akin, a candidate who equated federal student loans to "stage three cancer," and has advocated policies that would eliminate key programs that help keep college affordable for Missouri's working families.
"I know first-hand that a good education is the first rung on the ladder of opportunity, and we should always be striving to create more chances for hard-working students, not less," said McCaskill. "My opponent, Todd Akin, believes we should fundamentally change the American Dream by letting the big banks decide who goes to college. Pell Grants and federal student loans are an investment in America's future and Todd Akin's position that these student loans are like a cancer on our society just goes to show that he's too far outside the mainstream for Missouri's students and families."
In June, Claire and her colleagues successfully fought to ensure the interest rate for Subsidized Stafford Loans remained at 3.4 percent. This extension was completely offset and paid for, ensuring that rates would not double for the more than 185,000 Missouri students who rely on student loans. Todd Akin missed the critical vote because he was in Missouri campaigning.
At a debate hosted by the University of Missouri College Republicans in April, Akin told Missouri voters that the federal government should not be in the student loan business and went so far as to say that student loans were equivalent to "stage three cancer." Since receiving his party's nomination, Akin has not walked back on his comments, telling the Springfield News Leader in August, "I called a spade a spade."
Claire has also been an ardent supporter of Pell Grants, a need based program that targets low-income students and rewards them for their hard work. Todd Akin has consistently demonstrated that he would end this program through his support of the Romney-Ryan budget which would cut $170 billion from the Pell Grant program, as well as his unwavering commitment to eliminating the Department of Education, which funds and administers the program.
These stops are a part of Day One on Claire's four-day "On Our Campus, On Our Side" Statewide Listening Tour, during which she will talk with voters from all four corners of the state about the importance of affordable college loans.
Tuesday, September 4
WHAT: McCaskill to stop by the University of Missouri
WHEN: 3:00 pm
WHERE: Middlebush Building ,Room 309, University Ave & S 9th St, Columbia, MO
WHAT: McCaskill to stop by Westminster College
WHEN: 4:45 pm
WHERE: Hunter Activity Center, 501 Westminster Ave, Fulton, MO
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Damn she will try anything to round up some more votes. Damn media abusing witch.
ReplyDeleteReaching out to the youth vote is basically a sign of desperation. By and large the younger voters don't sway elections.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's Claire, taken about 1963....
ReplyDeleteThere are an awful lot of young people in this country who owe an incredible amount of money on student loans for degrees that aren't doing them any good in the current job market. I'm not saying all student loans are bad, but in many cases they're like our government debt - it looks like easy money, but paybacks are hell. I hate to sound like an old codger, but I and many others, including my own kids, put ourselves through college by working and applying the pay-as-you-go plan. It may be harder than getting a student loan and it may take longer to get through school, but when you graduate you're not in debt up to your ears. It's too bad so many of today's young people have no financial sense.
ReplyDeleteAkin and the republicans are destroying higher education in missouri. Don't let them finish the job.
ReplyDeleteWith the increase in availability of student loans, tuition went up and quality went down. Professors who used to teach four classes a semester now teach one to two per semester and the rest of the teaching falls to graduate student adjunct professors. The student loans have not helped the student or the college. Aiken is right; student loans are a cancer that is killing the university and the grads' future.
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Unless your pursuing a technical degree in the medical field, your better off learning a trade.
3;00pm right on the mark. Young people graduating today have a lot of degrees and no temperature.Sadly
ReplyDeleteThat picture must have been taken when Air Claire was married to that pillar in the community, David Exposito. Her hairstyle says it all.
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