12 and have social security survivor s benefits. there s something nonsensical about the idea every government benefit only pro-meteorologists dependency. i couldn t have gone to college without federal student loans and survivor s benefits. we had a conversation that student loans are like young kids going to the bank and robbing it, like they are vilified if they want college assistance to better themselves. i believe a story came out not long ago we passed $1 trillion in college debt in this country. the new new york times poll says 56% thinks we should spend more and raise taxes to help the economy. does that number surprise you? it does and doesn t. i think a lot of americans understand in their guts, there are things government does they support and are happy about. people know we need better roads
illegal aliens to texas with college assistance and chastised cain for making light of the problem. let es s face it. we can t joke about the issue and we can t have magnets to bring illegal aliens in the country. separate from tonight s debate, nevada is in spotlight for choosing early january date for the caucuses that could force new hampshire s laidoff primary to december of this year. as of tomorrow, after tonight s debate, five of the republican candidates will boycott the campaign trail. jon huntsman is skipping the debate tonight. three who are not boycotting are ron paul, rick perry and mitt romney. for doing so, they risk the wrath of voters in new hampshire who may decide they re not doing enough to protect the first primary. bret? bret: carl cameron live in las vegas tonight. carl, thank you. iowa caucus is set for january 3. please join us wednesday on special special, as we continue our center seat series. former senator rick santorum will be our guest. he will ta
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their in effect, their local bankers in cooperation with their colleges. what democrats are saying is, wait a minute, we re paying a lot we re subsidizing the banks here. we re paying money to middlemen. let s cut the middlemen out. we ll have the u.s. government make the loans directly and we ll take that money that we save and we ll spend it now on pell grants which are an additional form of college assistance. that s got a lot of democrats excited. it will mean more money going to college assistance and they don t like the banks to start with, of course. along come republicans and say, that s a terrible idea to do that. you re only centralizing, as dana bash reported a while ago, you re concentrating yet more power in washington, d.c., just like you re trying to do on health care. it s not a good philosophy. these are local jobs that are at stake. these are private companies that help to do this. they do a like them. some actually provide a lot of services to students such as co