College students panic over FAFSA's fine print about registering for the draft

CBS ^ | JANUARY 6, 2020 | LI COHEN

[Rashputin]

Watch it, some people have a very low tolerance for Truth and overdose easily.

[TheWriterTX]

My son is applying for student’s loans for the first time this year. We paid for his associate’s degree, he pays for everything else. He already registered for the draft years ago but his doctor told him to forget about military service. He blew out his knee playing football; while very strong and a great shot, he can’t go long distances on the knee.

It was a crushing blow for him.

[kaehurowing]

You have to be registered for the draft to get any federal benefits. Also, in my state, when you get your driver’s license you are automatically registered for the draft. Big signs are posted saying that at the DMV.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

There are other ways he can get the education I think joining the Peace Corps would also give the education dollars very LIBERAL organization however!!! There are many, many private companies out there right now offering apprenticeships where he wouldn’t even have to set foot in a university filling his mind full of propaganda!! Trump has made these apprenticeships a TOP PRIORITY with companies so these kids weren’t subject to these leftist educations AND debt!! Your son should check into this in the field he is interested in going into!!!

[conservative98]

[lightman]

And 90% of them can’t pass the drug test.

[Darksheare]

But none of them batted an eye at Hillary’s bellicose belligerence towards Russia, her threats of war, and the reality that they’d have been drafted into Hillary’s pantsuited paratroops.

[vpintheak]

It is the law for all males to register anyway. What a bunch of pant-loads.

[familyop]

"They needn’t worry. Under this president Pajama Boi’s are safe."

Very true.

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[familyop]

"There can be no draft in present day USA because the greater portion of what would be brought in with such would be worse than worthless."

And come out mighty fine. There's nothing like initial training for real combat soldiers. It's like growing up all over again in a hugely different way. ;)

As for those who don't graduate to become men, oh well. Good riddance.

[FreedomPoster]

There was no registration for 2 years, 1976-1977. So if you turned 18 in that time frame, you didn’t register. As you note, we returned to draft registration in 1978, which of course was under Carter.

[gattaca]

Rangel (I think), back when BW was pres, introduced a bill to reinstate the draft then voted against it.

[gattaca]

Should be GW, need coffee.

[jurroppi1]

been there a lot longer then that (since obama).

[rollo tomasi]

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." --James Madison

Any freeman or lover of liberty would be appalled at a strong centralized government having conscription powers. Every President who pushed for a draft was a centralized Progressive (Yes, that includes Lincoln) Statists. Same with Congress members and judges who pulled "shadows" out of their rectums to justify the draft.

If my community is threatened, then I will pick up arms by reason, not through conscription which is antithesis to reason and limited government.

That said, regulated militias (Not directly under the Federal/State governments) should be promoted, perhaps through tax breaks for participating in Weekend Warrior activities. If the government is too scared of not completing controlling militias, tough crap, government servants should be scared of their citizens

DOD should have professional "volunteers". The process can be optimize a heck of a lot more.

[wintertime]

So?.....Will those transgender females who identify as male be required to register? ( Just wondering.)

[Buckeye McFrog]

You have been required to register for the draft in order to qualify for student aid since 1980.

And they’re just noticing now?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Reagan actually campaigned on doing away with Selective Service as a waste of taxpayer money. All it does is pay armies of bureaucrats to compile a huge mailing list. If something goes down most of these people won’t be found, or if they are many will resist and clog the court system.

After getting elected he changed his mind as it was thought this would send the wrong message to the Evil Empire.

[FreedomPoster]

And it’s not even a good mailing list. It’s not like you’re required to update.

[PapaBear3625]

In Rostker v. Goldberg(1981), the Supreme Court held:

... And since women are excluded from combat service by statute or military policy, men and women are simply not similarly situated for purposes of a draft or registration for a draft, and Congress' decision to authorize the registration of only men therefore does not violate the Due Process Clause. The testimony of executive and military officials before Congress showed that the argument for registering women was based on considerations of equity, but Congress was entitled, in the exercise of its constitutional powers, to focus on the question of military need, rather than "equity.

But, guess what? Since then, the Obama Administration busily worked to get women into combat specialties, which means the original reasoning no longer holds.

And in 2019, a federal judge ruled that excluding women from draft registration was unconstitutional.