Obama rebukes Santorum on college "snob" remark

Rick Santorum is not only against birth control and abortion, the 2012 GOP presidential candidate is also against college education.

Santorum called President Obama a "snob" for his support of higher education.

Santorum told ABC's This Week, "President Obama once said he wants everyone in America to go to college. What a snob." He added that having people educated by "liberal college professors" was a plot by Obama to "remake students in his own image," according to the New York Times.

Wages for uneducated workers is considerably lower, at about $8.00 an hour, than for those with a college degree, who can earn upwards of $60,000 a year.

So what exactly is Santorum promoting by telling people that they didn't really need to go to college..that they should spend their lives working for minimum wage? Does America suddenly have no need for engineers, doctors, and other professions that require post high school training?

President Obama said at the White House, "When I speak about higher education, we are not just talking about a four-year degree. We are talking about somebody going to a community college and getting trained for that manufacturing job that now is requiring someone walking through the door handling a million-dollar piece of equipment....And they can't go in there unless they have some basic training beyond what they received in high school."

While being wheeled into an operating room, it's comforting for most people to know that their surgeon actually went to college.

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