Newt Gingrich calls for the repeal of child labor laws.

Published in the Orlando Sentinel on Saturday Nov 26 2011
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Republican candidate Newt Gingrich espousing the repeal of child-labor laws. He believes janitors should be fired (hello, unemployment costs) and replaced by poor school-age children.

So I guess Newt wants kids to put down there books and pick up mops. This story was buried in a small segment on page 14 and I almost missed it. Is this what we want for or childrens future. Perhaps Newt will replace immigrant workers with our children.

It seems to me he want's our country to to move backwards. I don't know about the rest of you but I find this sickining.

Newt Gingrich 2012 - "If you can’t beat the sweatshops, join the sweatshops"

Vote Ron Paul

Not surprising coming from the guy who divorced his wife while she was dying from cancer. This is someone considered for the presidency? Only in america.

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I have been saying all along that Gingrich has so much dirty laundry it is sickening for anyone to even consider him for dog catcher let alone President. Believe me this is a small thing to what can be found out. He is a total piece of crap this is just more of it.

I have read so much dirt on this guy yet he is still favored by some. I just do not understand it.

How does the media not pick up on this stuff?

Ohh wait, nevermind I should know better than to ask a question like that.

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how about a link to the article?

Gotta love Newt...
1. Gingrich divorced his first wife for Marianne Ginther, whom he began courting while he was still married. He informed his first wife of his plans while she was in the hospital receiving treatment for cancer. Of course, Gingrich explained that he had an excuse for his adultery: “There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.” Patriotism!

2. Gingrich received $1.6 million to lobby for the housing agency Freddie Mac. When asked what he was doing to deserve such a high fee, he replied he was giving “strategic advice” and further claimed to be offering his services as “a historian.”

3. On Obama, Gingrich asked: “What if he is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?”

4. Gingrich once gave a Congressional speech so controversial that Tip O’Neill called it “the lowest thing I’ve ever seen in my 32 years of Congress,” and Trent Lott demanded it be stricken from the record. Highlights included his assertion that Democrats believe “America does nothing right.” In the same time period, Gingrich is also quoted as saying Democrats will bring to the U.S. “the joys of Soviet-style brutality and the murder of women and children.”

5. While any amateur can claim to want to cut the Departments of Energy and Commerce, Gingrich knows the rot goes much deeper. That’s why he has pushed for the elimination of the Congressional Budget Office as well, arguing “If you are serious about real health reform, you must abolish the Congressional Budget Office because it lies.”

6. Gingrich joined Palin in warning against the Affordable Care Act’s supposed “death panels” … 12 months after lauding precisely the “advanced care directives” that inspired Palin’s attack. Gingrich’s father-in-law benefited from the approach to end-of-life-care targeted by Palin.

7. A Gingrich charity—founded to “preserve the four pillars of American civilization: faith, family, freedom, and free enterprise”—paid a Gingrich for-profit company $220,000 for cases of his books and DVDs.

8. On the mosque planned near ground zero in downtown Manhattan, Gingrich argued: “There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.”

9. Gingrich claimed that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was “behaving exactly in the spirit of the Soviet tyranny.”

10. Gingrich warned, in reference to Obama’s 2008 coalition, that “the secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.”

11. Gingrich tweeted that Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor was a “latina woman racist.”

12. Gingrich systematically inflated his follower count on Twitter by creating fake user accounts, which made up as much as 92 percent of his “fan base.”

13. In 1995, Gingrich told a group of black journalists that “the truth is that preachers and lawyers have been more dominant in the black culture in the last 40 years than have business people,” and “the habits of the church and the habits of the lawsuit have been more powerful than the habits of acquisition and the habits of job creation.”

14. Gingrich once urged Republicans to fight Democrats in congress “with the scale and duration and savagery that is only true of civil wars.”

15. Gingrich warned that “there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us.”

Originally posted by mishigas
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how about a link to the article?

I read it in the newspaper at home. It's in the Orlando Sentinal on page A14 I do not have a link at this moment , I didn't read it online. Some things I still like to do the old fashioned way.

Okay, Newt is in need of a news flash here. Unemployment is at a back breaking 8-30% across our nation, depending on where one may find themselves. The *LAST* thing we need right now is to scrap labor protection laws of ANY kind. This is particularly self evident, or SHOULD BE, if scrapping said law would ADD to the work force. Gee.. lets have even MORE people competing for the same work....even if it's children!

Oh Newt....I'd ask what happened to him, but I've always considered him to be part of the problem and not the solution anyway. He's just doing the nation a service by showing it to everyone else so clearly and publicly.

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Originally posted by mishigas
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how about a link to the article?



I read it in the newspaper at home. It's in the Orlando Sentinal on page A14 I do not have a link at this moment , I didn't read it online. Some things I still like to do the old fashioned way.

Not all of us have access to hard copy. When you author a thread it is your responsibility to supply relevant links. Otherwise your thread is bogus.

So, either links or it didn't happen.

Republicans YEARN to one day have a labor environment that consists of only master and slave PERIOD.

The Republicans do not want workers rights, job safety regulations, benefits, retirement, or anything for the American worker.

All they want is for that mountain of cash that is STORED AWAY by the 1% cronies of theirs (who fund them to fight for THEIR interests and NOT the PEOPLES interests!) to grow higher and higher every minute. [color=limegreen]Their mountains of cash that will never see the light of day and never stimulate our economy.

Seriously, WHY are you Republicans so anti-American worker and anti-middle class??

DISGUSTING!!!!!!

edit on 26-11-2011 by HangTheTraitors because: (no reason given)

child labor


This is not the article in todays paper but this is what the article was about.

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I thought this site was about geting to the truth and geting information out and not about trying to debunk each other.

Anyhow I posted a link that is close enough. Maybe you are happy now.

Even if you don't have a hard copy you do have a computer and search engine same as me where I did post the source date and page.

Links, for those living under a rock;

Newt Gingrich: Child labor laws 'truly stupid' [Video]

Promising “extraordinarily radical proposals to fundamentally change the culture of poverty in America,” Newt Gingrich said Friday that he would fire school janitors and pay students to clean schools instead.

Because we all know the reason this country is broke is those overpaid elitist School Janitors. And we all know those poor kids aren't ever going to amount to anything, so might as well get them started in their predetermined career path of manual labor and janitorial services.

Newt Gingrich Says Schools Should Fire Janitors, Use Students Instead (VIDEO)
Newt: Fire the janitors, hire kids to clean schools

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child labor
This is not the article in todays paper but this is what the article was about.

You mean the article where he says things like this:

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.”

I'd say he's trying to help our youth.

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I thought this site was about geting to the truth and geting information out and not about trying to debunk each other.

Anyhow I posted a link that is close enough. Maybe you are happy now.

Even if you don't have a hard copy you do have a computer and search engine same as me where I did post the source date and page.

What is the truth in this situation? Your own half-baked, baseless theory? Because when we cannot examine his exact words, we cannot honestly comment. All we have to go on are your words, which could very well be nothing more than lies.

And you will be debunked when you post here, like it or not.

And obviously you are unaware of posting duties. The author is required to supply links to original quotes. Otherwise, we have nothing to work with. I'm not going to clean up your mess because I have Google.

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No amount of double-speak backwards apologist what-he-really-meant-to-say can make up for what Newt said in this case - it shows exactly where his mind goes when he think of cutting budgets - the very lowest on the economic ladder. Let's cut janitor's, why not school crossing guards and the lunch-room lady, too (there unionized also!)

What Newt doesn't offer to cut is the bloated defense budget, or Freddie Mac (He's on their payroll, to the tune of 1.6 million) or payouts and bailouts to the banks. Think Newt will cut health care? This is the author of the individual mandate, used by Romney for Romneycare, both of which were the basis for Obamacare.

Newt Gingrich is the master of the political payoff. He will punish the poor and working classes, and richly reward his benefactors.

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Lol, this can't be true surely

Is this said to get the public more angry and worked up on purpose, or did this guy just put a bullet through his foot?

They are pushing to see how the public are going to react to see how far they can push?

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I did say try to debunk I quoated exactly as it was writen. So good luck.

I don't buy into the whole this is what he ment to say double talk.

If you support Newt I could care less that is your blindness. The man said he wanted to repeal child labor laws that is the truth. If you support that sort of thing then it makes me wonder what sort of person you are.
I am begining to form a opinion though.

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Gingrich, who has since backtracked on his comments, didn’t offer any evidence to support this theory. That would be difficult, since studies have found that the more students work, the lower their grades and the more likely they are to have academic and behavioral problems and drop out of school.

Originally posted by TheMindWar
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Lol, this can't be true surely

Is this said to get the public more angry and worked up on purpose, or did this guy just put a bullet through his foot?

They are pushing to see how the public are going to react to see how far they can push?

I don't know how he has goten this far. Things keep getting crazier and crazier.

So what exactly is wrong with child labor?


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