Rick Santorum suggested today that his pro-manufacturing policies reflect a greater respect for working-class people than President Obama seems to hold, as he made a blue-collar appeal to voters in the outskirts of Detroit.

"President Obama once said he wants everybody out there to go to college; what a snob!" Santorum said this morning at an Americans for Prosperity event. "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 in their own image, not his."

Santorum, who recalled earlier that his grandfather worked in a coal mine, said that "there are good decent men and women who go out and work hard every day, and put their skills to test, that aren't taught by some liberal college professor [who] tries to indoctrinate them."

From there, Santorum touted the need for welfare reforms. "There's food stamps and Medicaid and a whole host of other welfare programs that need to have happen to them what we did to" the program for "aid to families with dependent children -- we made it, instead of a dependency program, we made it a transitional program."