Santorum's a hypocrite on college education

Only a fool or a liar is unaware that higher education is all but a prerequisite for success in the post-industrial economy; the unemployment rate for college graduates is just 4.4 percent, compared to 9.5 percent for high-school graduates. The idea that encouraging young people to go to college is really an attempt to lure them into indoctrination camps, or campuses, would be grossly insulting if it were not so comically paranoid.

But of course Rick Santorum doesn’t practice what he preaches. He went to college and holds both a law degree and an MBA. He’s sending his own children to college; his two eldest, Elizabeth and John, are interrupting their studies to help their father in his campaign.

Santorum told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that “there are a lot of people in this country that have no desire or no aspiration to go to college, because they have a different set of skills and desires and dreams that don’t include college.” Yet he makes sure his sons and daughters are not among them.