PoliticalChic
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"The GOP presidential candidate wants nine-year-olds to work as janitors. It's not merely a crazy plan (although it's plenty crazy). It's also evidence of a deep disrespect for and ignorance of American work.
Last Friday, during an event at Harvard, Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich offered up a modest plan for alleviating poverty in the United States. It was time, he said, to relax our "truly stupid" child labor laws. In particular, schools should fire their unionized janitors, and hire children....
Business - Jordan Weissmann - Newt Gingrich Thinks School Children Should Work as Janitors - The Atlantic
Liberal media went nuts, as did The Atlantic....
Then there's this:
"Student who doubled as high school's custodian now Harvard-bound"
1. "At 6 this morning, long before her classmates were even awake, 18-year-old Dawn Loggins was already pushing a mop through her high school in Lawndale, N.C. -- where she also works as a custodian.
2. Home -- for Dawn -- is complicated. For years she moved around, sometimes squatting with her drug dealer stepfather and unemployed mother.
"Every time my stepdad would be arrested, we would have to move. Or my mom would use rent money to bail him out of jail," Dawn said. "There would be places where we lived where there wouldn't be power and water for extended periods of time."
3. But she always excelled at school. Then last summer Dawn returned from an academic summer camp to find her parents had abandoned her.
4. ...a counselor asked Sheryl Kolton, a school custodian, if she would take Dawn in. With a safe place to stay, Dawn flourished.
5. She was president of the photography club, the rock climbing club, the Spanish club. "I also started a community service project for soldiers in active duty service. National Honor Society, Beta Club, National Spanish Honor Society. ...
6. "I think that what got me into Harvard was my drive," Dawn said. "And the fact that I've been able to do so much, with everything working against me
7. "I feel like Sheryl allowing me to stay there has been the best thing that has happened to me," Dawn says.
As for Sheryl, her view is that Dawn "doesn't owe me anything."
Student who doubled as high school's custodian now Harvard-bound - CBS News
(watch the vid...)
And this...
"Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that his wife, as well as the wife of President Barack Obama, would have had no chance in life had it not been for government help. According to vice presidential pool reports:
I know, literally, Barack and I talk about it. Neither one of us would have had any shot, Biden said. The same with our wives. Both wives are smarter than both of us. Literally, these very accomplished women would not have any chance without some help."
Jill and Michelle Would Not Have Any Chance Without Govt. | Washington Free Beacon
We can't allow the Left to train us to be victims, beggars, incompetents....
Just like the real Americans, Dawn Loggins rocks.
See you at the polls November 6th....
Last Friday, during an event at Harvard, Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich offered up a modest plan for alleviating poverty in the United States. It was time, he said, to relax our "truly stupid" child labor laws. In particular, schools should fire their unionized janitors, and hire children....
Business - Jordan Weissmann - Newt Gingrich Thinks School Children Should Work as Janitors - The Atlantic
Liberal media went nuts, as did The Atlantic....
Then there's this:
"Student who doubled as high school's custodian now Harvard-bound"
1. "At 6 this morning, long before her classmates were even awake, 18-year-old Dawn Loggins was already pushing a mop through her high school in Lawndale, N.C. -- where she also works as a custodian.
2. Home -- for Dawn -- is complicated. For years she moved around, sometimes squatting with her drug dealer stepfather and unemployed mother.
"Every time my stepdad would be arrested, we would have to move. Or my mom would use rent money to bail him out of jail," Dawn said. "There would be places where we lived where there wouldn't be power and water for extended periods of time."
3. But she always excelled at school. Then last summer Dawn returned from an academic summer camp to find her parents had abandoned her.
4. ...a counselor asked Sheryl Kolton, a school custodian, if she would take Dawn in. With a safe place to stay, Dawn flourished.
5. She was president of the photography club, the rock climbing club, the Spanish club. "I also started a community service project for soldiers in active duty service. National Honor Society, Beta Club, National Spanish Honor Society. ...
6. "I think that what got me into Harvard was my drive," Dawn said. "And the fact that I've been able to do so much, with everything working against me
7. "I feel like Sheryl allowing me to stay there has been the best thing that has happened to me," Dawn says.
As for Sheryl, her view is that Dawn "doesn't owe me anything."
Student who doubled as high school's custodian now Harvard-bound - CBS News
(watch the vid...)
And this...
"Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that his wife, as well as the wife of President Barack Obama, would have had no chance in life had it not been for government help. According to vice presidential pool reports:
I know, literally, Barack and I talk about it. Neither one of us would have had any shot, Biden said. The same with our wives. Both wives are smarter than both of us. Literally, these very accomplished women would not have any chance without some help."
Jill and Michelle Would Not Have Any Chance Without Govt. | Washington Free Beacon
We can't allow the Left to train us to be victims, beggars, incompetents....
Just like the real Americans, Dawn Loggins rocks.
See you at the polls November 6th....