BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – Education Secretary Betsy DeVos slammed calls to “cancel” student debt or make college free, making a case this week against what she called a “socialist takeover” of education — and prompting a fiery rebuke from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“Policies should never entice students into greater debt. Nor should they put taxpayer dollars at greater risk. There are too many politicians today who support policy that does both,” DeVos said. “Still more advance the truly insidious notion of government gift giving. We’ve heard shrill calls to ‘cancel,’ to ‘forgive,’ to ‘make it all free.’ Any innocuous label out there can’t obfuscate what it really is: wrong.”
Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., reacted on Twitter to DeVos’ remarks, mocking the education secretary’s comments.
“Tuition-free public college is a dangerous socialist takeover of higher ed, as opposed to the far superior capitalist takeover of higher ed, which reliably buries millions of Americans in trillions of dollars in debt & graduates them into low paying jobs without good healthcare,” the “Squad” congresswoman wrote. “I also think that the grading system in college is outdated. All students should be automatically given A’s, and let’s end this ‘homework’ B.S. DeVos won’t admit her real agenda, which is trying to prevent democrats from teaching students the beautiful value of nonstop handouts and cradle to crave entitlements. She is also trying to stop us democrats from rightfully elevating Karl Marx and Joseph Stalin to the same level as Jesus.”