Ilhan Omar wants GI Bill for all, not just GIs

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is being criticized for sharing an article that calls for the G.I. Bill legislation, aimed at paying for the higher education of American service members' to apply to all U.S. citizens.

What appears on the surface to be charity being handed out by the left, is actually a slap in the face of all who have served. After all, it's the "G.I. Bill" not the "Everyone Gets Free Education Bill." Military men and women have earned it by putting their lives on the line for the country. 

The story being touted by Omar was written by USMC and Iraq veteran Will Fischer. He used the G.I. Bill's benefits to pay for his college tuition and he argues that the benefits of paying for all would benefit student debt and the economy as a whole.

What the story doesn't say is that students take on the loan from lending institutions with the promise to pay it back. It's no different than a car loan. So why should taxpayers foot the bill for people who it is assumed will get a good job and then pay off their debt? Why should someone with no kids, pay off the debt of someone else's kid? 

And what about those of us who paid off our student loans? Is it fair that those who come after us get theirs paid off and I, in the meantime, have to pay off theirs?

"Imagine what it would do for our country and those who live here if we were to take the ethos behind the original G.I. Bill and apply it to everybody—canceling all student debt and making public colleges, universities, and vocational schools tuition-free," Omar tweeted, quoting the AlterNet story. We know what her agenda is.

Debt is not "canceled." Someone has to pay back the lending institutions that took the risk of providing the borrower the money. The people in the military took a personal risk to serve the country and the country owes them for that risk.

"I'm a recipient of the GI Bill," wrote Chris Manning, a veteran who ran for Congress in New Mexico as a Libertarian in 2018. "The GI Bill was earned by agreeing to serve my country for six years and to put my life at risk as an infantryman in Afghanistan. It wasn't something just given to me with nothing expected in return. Don't cheapen our sacrifice w/ this comparison."

"My dad was a WWII vet who went to Brown University on the GI Bill. He still worked as a truck driver on the side to pay for his family's food and housing while attending school full time," Cam Edwards, a gun rights activist tweeted. "He didn't get 'free' college. He paid his way with his service to the nation."

Socialism never works. Never. When will the left learn this? When they run out of toilet paper and stand on bread lines?

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