Newt Gingrich: Poor kids don't work "unless it's illegal"

[J.E.D]

I repeat:

Newt Gingrich: Poor kids don't work "unless it's illegal"

Ladies and gentlemen, your GOP front runner. The war on the poor is alive and well in the Republican party. Good luck in 2012.

DES MOINES, Iowa - After saying recently that child labor laws are "truly stupid," Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Thursday told an Iowa audience that children in poor neighborhoods have "no habits of working" nor getting paid for their endeavors "unless it's illegal."

"Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works," the former House speaker said at a campaign event at the Nationwide Insurance offices. "So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash,' unless it's illegal."

Newt Gingrich: Poor kids don't work "unless it's illegal" - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

 

[Truthmatters]

Like I said before Newt is not a nice man.

He will say this and much much more to show his real heart.

He doesnt like most of the American people.

 

[J.E.D]

Like I said before Newt is not a nice man.

He will say this and much much more to show his real heart.

He doesnt like most of the American people.

You can say that again. I know that Newt will be Newt, and Republicans have made no secret of their disdain for the poor, but this is un.be.lievable.

 

[Sallow]

That was just amazing.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvCXwjj3Uf0]Newt Gingrich: "Child Labor Laws Are Stupid" - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sallow]

Obviously..Mr. Gingrich is no fan of Charles Dickens.

 

[J.E.D]

That was just amazing.

Is this for real? Please tell me this is a nightmare.

 

[Katzndogz]

It's a way of life in the slums and ghettos. If people don't want to believe that the drug dealers and criminals don't employ children that's just wishful thinking. Kids are couriers, pushers, lookouts and sometime killers. They are shoplifters, pickpockets, and flash mob assaulters to grab what they can. Girls can start working as prostitutes when about ten.

There is an idealized vision of children that doesn't exist everywhere, not even everywhere in this country.

As far as holding down a job, there isn't a role model for these children. Dad, if Dad can be identified at all doesn't work. Mom's boyfriends don't work. Mom doesn't work. Taking off the blinders would go a long way to dealing with the criminal class.

 

[Sallow]

It's a way of life in the slums and ghettos. If people don't want to believe that the drug dealers and criminals don't employ children that's just wishful thinking. Kids are couriers, pushers, lookouts and sometime killers. They are shoplifters, pickpockets, and flash mob assaulters to grab what they can. Girls can start working as prostitutes when about ten.

There is an idealized vision of children that doesn't exist everywhere, not even everywhere in this country.

As far as holding down a job, there isn't a role model for these children. Dad, if Dad can be identified at all doesn't work. Mom's boyfriends don't work. Mom doesn't work. Taking off the blinders would go a long way to dealing with the criminal class.

Dealing with it..would mean upgrading the schools to the level of their wealthy counter parts.

Schools in poorer neighborhoods receive much less funding..and talent then those in better neighborhoods.

 

[J.E.D]

It's a way of life in the slums and ghettos. If people don't want to believe that the drug dealers and criminals don't employ children that's just wishful thinking. Kids are couriers, pushers, lookouts and sometime killers. They are shoplifters, pickpockets, and flash mob assaulters to grab what they can. Girls can start working as prostitutes when about ten.

There is an idealized vision of children that doesn't exist everywhere, not even everywhere in this country.

As far as holding down a job, there isn't a role model for these children. Dad, if Dad can be identified at all doesn't work. Mom's boyfriends don't work. Mom doesn't work. Taking off the blinders would go a long way to dealing with the criminal class.

Well, yeah, no shit. SOME -not all, and not even most - poor children in inner-cities are living in those conditions; but to lump all poor children into that category is not only the most ignorant thing I've heard in quite a while, but it also makes Newt, you and the rest of the cons who are actually defending this out of touch piece of shit, sound like complete assholes. If this is your nominee; if you really think that this is a winning message; you are seriously delusional.

 

[Vaard]

Like I said before Newt is not a nice man.

He will say this and much much more to show his real heart.

He doesnt like most of the American people.

most republicans dont like most americans either.......

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Dealing with it..would mean upgrading the schools to the level of their wealthy counter parts.

Schools in poorer neighborhoods receive much less funding..and talent then those in better neighborhoods.

Actually inner city schools tend to spend drastically more money per student than their suburban counterparts, but that's irrelevant because education spending never has been, isn't now, and never will be the problem. Dumping money into the black hole of Big Education is not a substitute for piss poor parenting.

 

[AquaAthena]

Like I said before Newt is not a nice man.

He will say this and much much more to show his real heart.

He doesnt like most of the American people.

You can say that again. I know that Newt will be Newt, and Republicans have made no secret of there disdain for the poor, but this is un.be.lievable.

It's not that we have disdain for the poor; rather disdain for the freeloaders....

 

[J.E.D]

Like I said before Newt is not a nice man.

He will say this and much much more to show his real heart.

He doesnt like most of the American people.

You can say that again. I know that Newt will be Newt, and Republicans have made no secret of there disdain for the poor, but this is un.be.lievable.

It's not that we have disdain for the poor; rather disdain for the freeloaders....

Yeah, those poor, free-loading children. If only some conservative super hero would fly in and repeal those pesky child labor laws. This is what this country has come to. What a sad day for America.

 

[Katzndogz]

It's a way of life in the slums and ghettos. If people don't want to believe that the drug dealers and criminals don't employ children that's just wishful thinking. Kids are couriers, pushers, lookouts and sometime killers. They are shoplifters, pickpockets, and flash mob assaulters to grab what they can. Girls can start working as prostitutes when about ten.

There is an idealized vision of children that doesn't exist everywhere, not even everywhere in this country.

As far as holding down a job, there isn't a role model for these children. Dad, if Dad can be identified at all doesn't work. Mom's boyfriends don't work. Mom doesn't work. Taking off the blinders would go a long way to dealing with the criminal class.

Dealing with it..would mean upgrading the schools to the level of their wealthy counter parts.

Schools in poorer neighborhoods receive much less funding..and talent then those in better neighborhoods.

You can't do that.

Is this enough money?

Kansas City would show what could be done if a school district had both the money and the will. It would be a model for educational reformers throughout the nation.

When estimates of the cost of the initial version of the plan came back, the lawyers and education activists who had designed the plan were shocked at their own audacity.(16) The $250 million cost was a staggering amount in a district whose normal budget was $125 million a year. But that was only the start. By the time he recused himself from the case in March 1997, Clark had approved dozens of increases, bringing the total cost of the plan to over $2 billion--$1.5 billion from the state and $600 million from the school district (largely from increased property taxes).

With that money, the district built 15 new schools and renovated 54 others. Included were nearly five dozen magnet schools, which concentrated on such things as computer science, foreign languages, environmental science, and classical Greek athletics. Those schools featured such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room; a robotics lab; professional quality recording, television, and animation studios; theaters; a planetarium; an arboretum, a zoo, and a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary; a two-floor library, art gallery, and film studio; a mock court with a judge's chamber and jury deliberation room; and a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability.

Well, it didn't work.

Money And School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment

By the time Judge Clark took himself off the case in March 1997, he was a deeply frustrated man. For more than 20 years he had devoted 20 percent of his time as a judge to the Kansas City case.(79) And despite all the effort he had made to order the plan, fund the plan, and keep the plan on track--often in the face of intense opposition from the very people he was trying to help--the plan wasn't working. The number of white suburban students attracted to the district by all the new magnet schools was less than 10 percent of the number that Clark had expected.(80) Year after year the test scores would come out, the achievement levels would be no higher than before, and the black-white gap (one-half a standard deviation on a standard bell curve) would be no smaller.(81)

Although the initial gap was small, by the 12th grade, blacks' scores on standardized tests were about three years behind those of whites (10.1 vs. 13.1).(82) At Central High School, which tended to attract suburban white computer hackers, white males were five years ahead of black males on standardized tests.(83) "While there is some good teaching and learning going on in KCMSD schools," Clark concluded in his March 1997 final order, "there is a great deal of poor teaching and little learning in many schools."(84)