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Santorum on Obama Pushing College for All Americans: "What a Snob"
Townhall.com ^ | February 25, 2012 | Erica Johnson

Posted on 02/25/2012 1:45:38 PM PST by Kaslin

Well said, Santorum -- well said. At a campaign stop in Michigan on Saturday morning:

Santorum On Obama 'What A Snob'

"Not all folks are gifted in the same way. Some people have incredible gifts with their hands... and want to work out there making things. President Obama once said, he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob. There are good decent men and women, who go out everyday to put their skills to test that aren't taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them. Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college -- he wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; classwarfare; education; elitism; idiot; luddites; lunacy; safetynet
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1 posted on 02/25/2012 1:45:53 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Rick schooling the Ivy League snob.


2 posted on 02/25/2012 1:47:35 PM PST by CainConservative (Santorum/Huck 2012 w/ Newt, Cain, Palin, Bach, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Petraeus in the Cabinet)
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To: Kaslin

Nice!


3 posted on 02/25/2012 1:49:38 PM PST by Thorliveshere
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To: CainConservative

Agreed. But he needs to keep repeating his message, rather than look for “sound bites”.

Hee needs to keep the pressure up and stay on message.


4 posted on 02/25/2012 1:51:09 PM PST by Ernie Kaputnik ((It's a mad, mad, mad world.))
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To: Kaslin

Not the words of an establishment republican.


5 posted on 02/25/2012 1:51:56 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Kaslin

a snob?

yes he appears to be a snob....he acts the part well....

when he refuses to show his grades...and the only reason he passed his classes is because the leftist professors would NEVER FAIL A BLACK MAN!

so President Teleprompter has nothing to be snobbish about.


6 posted on 02/25/2012 1:52:02 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: CainConservative

bump


7 posted on 02/25/2012 1:52:22 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: CainConservative

Yes the world needs more worthless degrees in liberal arts.


8 posted on 02/25/2012 1:55:31 PM PST by org.whodat (Sorry bill, I should never have made all those jokes about you and Lewinsky, have fun.)
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To: 21twelve; Absolutely Nobama; AFPhys; afraidfortherepublic; AmericanInTokyo; ...
Santorum for President Ping List.

FReepmail “Antoninus” to be added or removed.

9 posted on 02/25/2012 1:57:55 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t like Santorum but that was good.


10 posted on 02/25/2012 1:58:47 PM PST by Irenic
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To: Kaslin

UMass has long had an “I Feel So Good About Myself For Sending Morons and Psychopaths To College!” Program. My first year there, way back in the 60s, we had two of these on our dorm floor. One was a psychopath who threw live cats off the 19th floor balcony to their deaths and liked to set fires in the dorm. The other operated on a junior high school level socially and academically. Both, of course, were gone after the first semester, but the Liberals felt so good about themselves! Today this program has been expanded to a “Doctorate in Social Justice and Victims’ Studies.”


11 posted on 02/25/2012 2:00:48 PM PST by pabianice (")
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To: Kaslin
We need to bring back apprenticeships and trade schools. I was talking to a cousin last night and realized that she thinks that factories are full of bustling robots being directed by computer geeks in air conditioned offices.

Even where robotics are used it still takes a fair number of people keeping them running and they don't need college degrees to do it. I'm living proof, a high school dropout who was a factory foreman who had to keep humans and robots operating. I didn't have formal classroom training, I had on the job experience and a natural curiosity.

The single best explanation of America's "Maker deficit" I've seen comes from the Discovery Channel's Mike Rowe.

Mike Rowe on Discovery, Realization and Lamb Castration
12 posted on 02/25/2012 2:02:57 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Kaslin
“President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college,” Santorum said. “ What a snob!” The crowd laughed and applauded wildly. But the last time ...

________________

Flashback: 2006, Rick Santorum Wanted To Send All Pennsylvanians To College

13 posted on 02/25/2012 2:02:57 PM PST by anglian
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To: Kaslin
The myth that everyone needs a college degree needs to be debunked. High school guidance teachers have been "advising" students to take college prep classes for at least three generations.

Could it be an attempt of elitists to turn America into the white college utopia described in Mega Trends, a best seller in the 80s?

14 posted on 02/25/2012 2:03:17 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!)
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To: Kaslin
The myth that everyone needs a college degree needs to be debunked. High school guidance teachers have been "advising" students to take college prep classes for at least three generations.

Could it be an attempt of elitists to turn America into the white college utopia described in Mega Trends, a best seller in the 80s?

15 posted on 02/25/2012 2:03:29 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!)
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To: org.whodat

Don’t forget, people who are essentially in debt bondage to the Government are far easier to control...


16 posted on 02/25/2012 2:03:55 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Lazlo in PA

Santorum scares the bejabbers out of the libs, who are elitists to the core, as is Willard Romney. He will get votes that have been unavailable to the GOP candidate since Reagan.

Obama would lose white voters without a college education by titanic proportions that would be impossible for him to overcome in states like Ohio, Michigan and PA.

Obama badly wants to run against Romney who will not be able to get those votes and will likely do worse than McCain


17 posted on 02/25/2012 2:04:46 PM PST by Brices Crossroads
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To: Kaslin

We should call most of them “Internment University”, with the only subject being “obama”...


18 posted on 02/25/2012 2:14:17 PM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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To: Kaslin
College is a big business.

Government schools are now factories designed to turn out fodder for colleges. Trade schools and High School shop courses designed to develop manual and technical skills have been largely abandoned.

Students who would never pass a college entrance exam two or three generations ago are now pushed into and through college. We now have the world's largest population of functionally illiterate college graduates barely competent to fill jobs as burger flippers. Meanwhile, jobs requiring technical training and skills go unfilled for lack of qualified candidates.

Need for skilled workers remains strong

"The workers hardest to find are machinists — skilled technicians who operate lathes, mills and other cutting tools and can turn a raw cube of metal into, say, a finely grooved aircraft engine part."

"Behind the talent crisis is a cultural shift away from manufacturing and into more college-oriented disciplines, manufacturers say. Kids today still think of manufacturing as smokestacks, when it's more about software-guided machines, says Sweatman, 65, who cut his machining teeth working for GE."

"School officials are measured by how many students they prepare for college, he says."

"They're all pushed toward college," he says. "All your politicians say, 'You need a college degree."

"Psychology majors, history majors, I don't know how many jobs are out there."


19 posted on 02/25/2012 2:16:29 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: Kaslin

If I had a kid, I would advise him/her to attend a Vo-Tech. Either plumbing or electrical.
They make a bunch of money. And people always need them.
They would make a bunch of money while their friends who Majored in Under water basket weaving or Bagpipes are working at McDonalds trying to pay off the massive debt they got.


20 posted on 02/25/2012 2:18:18 PM PST by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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