Friday, December 2nd, 2011 09:49 am
work ethic does not mean child slave labor, except in Republicanese
He's...not actually joking.
Gingrich: Laws preventing child labor are 'truly stupid'
I know, titles can be misleading sometimes! So let's...
...what, are his servants getting old and he wants to save money and get them trained at school now instead of that uppity math and reading nonsense they've been getting?
The Republican Party, ladies and gentleman. Make the poor kids work to clean up after the rich ones. That'll teach 'em.
[Weird but true; I did work from fourth grade to eleventh grade at my school's lunchroom to pay for my lunch during the school year. It was like, an hour a day and we controlled the schools' ice cream access. Twelfth grade I was abroad, so I couldn't. I'm still grumpy about that.]
Gingrich: Laws preventing child labor are 'truly stupid'
I know, titles can be misleading sometimes! So let's...
"It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid," Gingrich said. "Saying to people you shouldn't go to work before you're 14, 16. You're totally poor, you're in a school that's failing with a teacher that's failing."
Gingrich then proposed a system he said would help those students rise from poverty.
"I tried for years to have a very simple model. These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work; they'd have cash; they'd have pride in the schools. They'd begin the process of rising."
...what, are his servants getting old and he wants to save money and get them trained at school now instead of that uppity math and reading nonsense they've been getting?
The Republican Party, ladies and gentleman. Make the poor kids work to clean up after the rich ones. That'll teach 'em.
[Weird but true; I did work from fourth grade to eleventh grade at my school's lunchroom to pay for my lunch during the school year. It was like, an hour a day and we controlled the schools' ice cream access. Twelfth grade I was abroad, so I couldn't. I'm still grumpy about that.]