Saint Rick is trying too hard to sound conservative, so he says inane stuff like this. As long as it sounds Newtonian, he rolls with it. The problem is that since he doesn’t really understand it, it comes out in goofy ways. It’s too easy to paint this as a “we want all kids to have the option to go to college” and Saint Rick as sounding simply out of touch in his soundbyte.
Why not just make the preceeding 12 years of education worth a damn so we don’t have to feel like we need to have another four years to catch up?
Rick is right. Not everyone should go to college. Tech schools should be booming but contractors cant find anyone to fill slots.
Every college kid I talk to say all they do is drink and smoke pot. Like 4 more years of high school but only they dont have parents around.
The more I hear Christie mouth off, the more I dislike him. Rick is right on this one. Not everyone is cut out for college.
Better Marxism through education.
With an FAA A&P license, FCC Radiotelephone license in Avionics.....I can realize more earning potential than the majority of college graduates and I possess something that actually is value added to the infrastructure that everyone takes for granted daily.
Infrastructure doesn't repair itself.
My education has opening many doors and possibilities and I can more than compete for positions that state a desire for an AS/BS degree......or, equivalent experience.
I graduated prior to vocational schools shifting to an AS degree, yet, this hasn't hampered my ability to be gainfully employed.
It's a tough life, college kids are not going to be able to do the really necessary work.
Wow, the stock of that literal and figurative RINO from NJ is plunging with conservatives.
My question is what does the rhetoric “let every child reach his maximum or her maximum potential” actually MEAN????
Is Christie contending that if the federal government did not FINANCE ALL THE KID’S COLLEGE - then we the people are NOT “letting them reach their potential”?
I’m sick and tired of this B.S. notion that we OWE anyone LOANS or GRANTS to ANYONE.
How the hell many college kids WORK while in college as a percentage? I know I worked through college - and I did NOT qualify for grants.
Following this ridiculous logic, why should it only be supposed that the tax-pater NOT paying for COLLEGE is not “letting them reach their potential”?
That’s prejudicial. What about the high school kid who has worked at Subway for a few years and has “Shift Manager” status? If the government is paying tens of thousands of dollars in GRANTS (money that doesn’t have to be paid back) on top of $57,000 in low interest loans to basically anyone who has a social security number - then why doesn’t the Subway employee have a right to seed money of $20,000 on top of $57,000 in business loans?
How can you not let THEM reach their full potential Governor?
I better be careful with the anology because it might end up in Obama’s next campaign platform.
This guy Christie must REALLY never want to be President because his schoolboy crush on Mitt has severely tarnished his reputation outside of the Liberal eastern seaboard.
Rick Santorum had it 100% correct.
Conservatives Unite! It’s Now or Never
http://youtu.be/OItvkY_1sMk
Santorum is correct on his assessment of the Obama desire for a college degree for everyone.
Obama’s education plan is to dumb down a college education so that everyone IS capable of getting a degree, though perhaps not capable of earning it.
Obama said in one of his commencement addresses that we’ve been throwing money at public education for years and it’s not working, White students are still out performing Black and other minority students on tests, so we have to try something different.
The guy who made his, now rapidly shrinking, reputation by attacking the big (liberal) education establishment at his state level is complaining when a national candidate is attacking the big (liberal) education establishment at the national (and the state!) level? Christie is just supersized his hypocrisy. What Santorum is saying is long overdue in the national discourse.
Obama wants universal K-16, because K-12 isn’t proving to be totally sufficient indoctrination.
The more he talks, the less I like him.
It’s funny how much effort the libtard media puts into getting Repubs to defend Obama and criticize fellow Repubs. It’s all they do. It’s the entire mission of the Sunday shows.
FWIW, Santorum’s statement on colleges is silly.
College is for everyone almost ruined the NY City Colleges.It took the arrival of the immigrant students to save the system.
“I think that’s probably over the line,” Christie told Schieffer... SO WHAT! We’re not going to win any brownie points by going out of our way to be nice to Obama. Our candidate needs to bring it on hard, constantly. Some of it sticks, some of it doesn’t. Christie go home, or go on a diet.