Everything else he said was out of the conservative playbook.
Just because one does not have a college education, does not mean they are destined for government aid!!!
My gosh, I don't have a college degree, and I haven't even come close to needing a handout from the government...
Also, most of my highest paying jobs were the ones in which I started out at an entry level position and moved up based on MY work ethic and ability to learn on the job...
My husband has a college degree thanks to the GI Bill when he returned from Vietnam....and he has never once used what the degree was for....he has worked for the US Postal Service, which is who he was working for part-time, while finishing his degree...
I would resent like heck, paying for an unwed mother to go to college, which would mean child care, and all sundries, only to have her/he to get married, or find a job that a degree wasn't necessary to begin with...
I bet there are more IT techs with Computer degrees filing for bankruptcy than blue collar workers in the last 6-7 years!