A.G. Gancarski
Asked in Iowa Saturday if he backed the idea of student loan borrowers serving compulsory military stints, Ron DeSantis rejected the concept of “bringing people in who just may not have any interest.”
The Governor told attendees at a Never Back Down “meet and greet” event in Algona, Iowa, that a service requirement could “potentially backfire” given the population of people in today’s colleges.
“I look at some of these college campuses and I’m not sure how many of those folks would thrive in a military environment. I’m not saying none of them could, but I do think it’s something that because I want the military standards to be high and I want the mission to be above all else if you start forcing people to come in who have no interest in the military, this is not theirs,” DeSantis said. “I think it’s harder to get that cohesion.”
DeSantis talked of his own military service at some length thereafter, before restating his belief “that we want to draw people that really have that sense of purpose and drive rather than, rather than force people to come in who may not want to be part of it.”
DeSantis, like most Republicans, has made political hay out of moves by the Joe Biden administration to “forgive” student loans. The latest administration plan has been to fix long-standing failures of the Department of Education and loan servicers to correct deficiencies in the Income Based Repayment program in counting payments, fulfilling an agreement for loan discharge after 20 years of undergraduate loan repayment, or 25 years for graduate borrowing.
The Governor has previously called to stop “subsidizing ineffective programs at these universities,” including arguing earlier this summer that loans should be “dischargeable in bankruptcy,” which was made illegal in most cases decades ago.
9 comments
Richard C. Russell
August 26, 2023 at 2:10 pm
DeSantis is wrong! Nothing should be free and if they go in the service and wash out then no freebies for them either. If someone does not want to serve then they don’t deserve a hand out! It’s called free will and that’s the choice they’re given.
Bwj
August 26, 2023 at 3:14 pm
I actually agree with DeSantis. College should be afforded to everyone. If you want to increase the GI Bill, let’s do so for those that want to serve.
Padraig Martin
August 27, 2023 at 8:43 am
DeDantis is not arguing that it dhould be free. He is simply saying that military service should not be part of any loan forgiveness program.
Dan
August 27, 2023 at 3:24 pm
A student loan is not a hand out. Compulsory service was proven ineffective a long time ago. Even a D.A. like DeSantis knows this.
Terri
August 26, 2023 at 3:08 pm
Ron DeSantis was a jag officer and that he only reason why he signed in. He was a damn whimsy lawyer and he is going to make decisions about someone who wants college and a military career. He’s a d….
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August 26, 2023 at 3:22 pm
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Michael K
August 27, 2023 at 8:01 am
It’s not like saving the banks and the multi-million dollar salaries of bank leaders or any of the other massive corporate lifesavers that benefitted rich people. No, helping young people with student loan debt is nothing like that at all.
Forget him
August 27, 2023 at 9:08 am
Forget the army. I’d let the Chinese army make a video out of ron in a heartbeat.
He doesn’t care about anyone
PeterH
August 28, 2023 at 12:58 pm
…..so now Ron DeSantis has disenfranchised college graduates! Is there any collection of Americans that DeSantis hasn’t trashed?
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