The Price of the American Dream
7 min readAug 23, 2019
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There are $1.5 trillion in student loans guaranteed by Uncle Sam!
Sen. Willard “Mitt” Romney (R-UT), when he was running for president, had a stump speech generally accessible to the plebes. There was one point, though, that I could not follow no matter how many times I heard that speech or how much I thought about it. It was clear that Gov. Romney (as we called him from his last held office at the time…