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Ron Johnson: “We have buried our children, not only in our collective…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Ron Johnson (FULL) National Issues Facing Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs

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And I've gotten letters literally of their son and daughter in law, $300,000 in debt been paying it off? No, they've been trying to pay it off for 10 years. Haven't even made a dent in it. We have buried our children, not only in our collective debt, $30 trillion, we've buried them in their own personal debt. telling them they all got to get a four year degree and then not monitoring at all what those degree programs actually are and how valuable they might be. (50:17–50:25)

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Asserts that the U.S. has $30 trillion in collective debt and significant personal debt burdens.

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