That Unpatriotic President

The Corner, over at National Review Online (NRO) is always a good source for Quotes from Crazyland.  [Poor Bill Buckley]

Yesterday John J. Pitney, Jr., a professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College*, wrote this in response to President Obama urging kids to stay in school because if they quit, they’d be quitting on their country as well as themselves:

…Among Americans between ages 65 and 74, 20.7 percent quit before finishing high school. For those 75 and older, the figure is 27.4 percent. The latter group includes some who quit in order to enlist in the armed forces after Pearl Harbor. And yet the president seems to be calling them unpatriotic.

Well, that’s a bit of stretch, isn’t it?  I wonder if John Boy checks under his bed for monsters every night?  Apparently he doesn’t realize that times, they are a’changin’.  My father would be in that ‘over 75’ age category and yes, he could have quit school and still found a job paying a living wage to support a family.  I wish John Boy could point out one kid who quits school these days who could do the same.  Huh, J-B?

*Tuition at this private California college is almost $40K  per year not including room and board.  If I had a child at this college, I’d ask for a refund or a very large discount.