The Country Be Damned

Think Progress: At a debate over the weekend, Missouri Rep. Todd Akin (R), who is running for Senate, said involving the government in the student loan process has given the government a “stage three cancer of socialism”:

AKIN: America has got the equivalent of the stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in. So first, to answer your question precisely, what the Democrats get rid of the private student loans and take it all over by the government was wrong, it was a lousy bill, and that’s why I voted no. The government needs to get its nose out of the education business.

To borrow a term from Thom Hartmann, education is intellectual infrastructure.  It's an investment in the future of the country.  That Republicans want to turn it into a for profit business for their cronies tells us all we need to know about their love of country. 

There is a cancer in this country but it's not federal support for education, it's the Republican party.  They're quite literally killing our future.