Peter Schiff
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My grandmother didn't work.
And my grandfather came to this country without a penny.
He didn't even speak English.
He came here at about 12 or 13.
No welfare, no food stamps, no government housing, just nothing.
Just show up and get a job.
Where did they live?
In Haven, in Connecticut.
He worked on building the Yale Bowl.
It's like his first thing he did.
But anyway, so my father...
didn't have any money for college.
So he got a job in the summer and that paid for all his college.
He didn't graduate with any debt.
He worked his way through college like a lot of his friends.
That was common to do back then.
There was no government loans.
Nobody could get a loan to go to college.
But because nobody can get a loan to go to college, the universities had to keep the cost down or they wouldn't have any customers.
So there was a lot of free market activity