[quote]Promising “extraordinarily radical proposals to fundamentally change the culture of poverty in America,” [URL="http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/newt-gingrich-PEHST000779.topic"]Newt Gingrich[/URL] said Monday that he would fire school janitors and pay students to clean schools instead.
Speaking at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the Republican presidential candidate and former speaker of the House challenged laws that prevent children from working certain jobs before their mid-teens.
Gingrich blames “the core policies of protecting unionization and bureaucratization" for “crippling” children.“
It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in, first of all, in child laws, which are truly stupid,” he said.
”I tried for years to have a very simple model,” he continued. “Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work, they would have cash, they’d have pride in the schools, they’d begin the process of rising.
”Gingrich, who over the weekend said [URL="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/activism/protest/occupy-wall-street-EVGAP00019.topic"]Occupy Wall Street[/URL]protesters should "get a job" and "take a bath," suggested Monday that poor children need to build a work ethic.
"Get any job that teaches you to show up on Monday," he said. "Get any job that teaches you to stay all day even if you’re having a fight with your girlfriend. I mean, the whole process of making work worthwhile is central.
"Gingrich is the latest Republican presidential candidate to challenge front-runner [URL="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/mitt-romney-PEPLT007376.topic"]Mitt Romney[/URL] in the polls.[/quote]
source:[URL]http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-gingrich-child-labor-20111121,0,6466282.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fpolitics+(L.A.+Times+-+Politics)[/URL]
Video in source. Oh Newt...
Yet he's still a serious candidate to the media
okay
Well, apparently we are going back to Nineteen-fucking-eleven. You are literally a sick individual if you believe child labor is ok.
I think this is the same guy who said there was no such thing as 99%.
Yeah, Republicans like this are truly stupid.
[editline]why are you looking at this[/editline]
Of course, we all over-react. He said janitors should be fired and the students should be paid to clean up. Still a strange idea though.
It's terrible if people are taking this guy seriously
Hey, I think I found a picture of Newt Gingrich:
[img]http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/6/6a/Mr_Burns_evil.gif[/img]
Oh Newt Gringrich...
Hahaha, new Democratic campaign ad: "Newt Gingrich wants to fire workers and enslave our children instead!"
Seriously, how the fuck are these people actually candidates for the [i]Presidency[/i]?
Newt Gingrich: 'truly stupid'
I get kinda what he's saying but he said it in a dumb way.
Oh my god, the guy's a fucking lunatic!
[quote]While serving in Congress, Gingrich introduced H.R. 4170, the Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996. The legislation would have directed the court to sentence a first time drug importer to life in prison or multiple-time offender to death.[/quote]
There's no way Newt Gingrich is a real person. I think he's a Democrat Manchurian candidate. He keeps saying [I]exactly[/I] what democrats would want him to say to damage the reputation of both himself and the GOP in exactly the right ways.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;33375503]Oh my god, the guy's a fucking lunatic![/QUOTE]
Ok he has no chance ever at being a president
He gets his name for having a brain the size of a newt.
"Guys, I have an idea.
We can solve the unemployment problem...
by firing people and giving their jobs to children."
"Brilliant!"
But seriously, he can go fuck himself with a Komodo Dragon.
I could see it working if they kept a small staff of Janitors off hand, and then having a club or something to help with it.
What's next? Coal mines making a comeback?
[QUOTE=dass;33375610]What's next? Coal mines making a comeback?[/QUOTE]
We have to be competitive! If we don't send [i]our[/i] children to work 16-hour-days in sweatshop factories and mines, China will beat us!
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;33375760]We have to be competitive! If we don't send [i]our[/i] children to work 16-hour-days in sweatshop factories and mines, China will beat us![/QUOTE]
That ties in wonderfully with that nice Bachmann quote.
Newts are hardly fit to be politicians, I don't see why anyone is listening to him.
I was wondering why he sounded so amphibian. Turns out it's a contraction of 'Newton'.
When I am at school, I try to further my education so I [I]don't have to be a janitor.[/I]
It's nice of him to malign janitors as well, hope they show him where he can shove it
help children get jobs by making working adults lose theirs? best idea ever!
One word: Scumbag.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;33375944]It's nice of him to malign janitors as well, hope they show him where he can shove it[/QUOTE]
Surprisingly relevant:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x22yNaLdiGA[/media]
[QUOTE=Spooter;33375527]There's no way Newt Gingrich is a real person. I think he's a Democrat Manchurian candidate. He keeps saying [I]exactly[/I] what democrats would want him to say to damage the reputation of both himself and the GOP in exactly the right ways.[/QUOTE]
A deep cover liberal?
Would explain a lot...
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;33376130]A deep cover liberal?
Would explain a lot...[/QUOTE]
It would also explain a lot for Cain.
And Bachmann.
You know what, the most logical explanation is that [I]every[/I] Republican candidate is secretly a liberal working as a caricature of Republicans to give them a bad name. None of them know the others are also secretly liberal, and they all are underestimating the stupidity and apathy of a large amount of Americans.
[quote]
It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in, first of all, in child laws, which are truly stupid,” he said.[/quote]
You know, he's right! Why don't we liberate them from these laws and set up factories right [i]in[/i] those neighborhoods!
[img]http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/stories/the_industrial_town/06.ST.02/img/IM.1064_zp.jpg[/img]
Look how liberated and free everyone is!
How the fuck do men like this even have the POTENTIAL to be taken as serious candidates? This man needs to leave politics and go to hell.
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