Newt Gingrich responds to Child Labor Comments

[ronaldinhollew]

This is catastrophic. The only politicians that see that poorer youngsters can't get into work, can't come up with good ideas to solve the problem!

According to Newt you only get failing schools in these poor areas, so the children should just quit education and become janitors! NO! You, that's YOU, Newt, should improve these schools so that the kids get a good education and don't have to do menial jobs for a living for the rest of their lives! IDIOT!

[burnshitfuckschool94]

Holy shit, he just called the poor lazy. How did he get this far?

[burnshitfuckschool94]

Holy shit, he actually just called the poor

[OldskolFan]

If anything, being poor makes you want to work harder in order to earn money: hunger is a motivating factor! Research studies proves this...My brother use to collect soda bottles when he was 12 and recycle them for money. He had a job at McDnlds as a teen as well. My mother worked as a nurse 16 hour days and another job on wkends. I had Summer jobs at a park funded by the city. We work still! It's due to lack of education and jobs that the poor turn to selling drugs or pimping and prostitution!

[BigBingFan]

It's a shame that his comments are mocked by either stupid Paul-Bots, or Leftists. Smartest man running for President, but people only get a caricature of Newt, and do NOT listen to solutions, because they are pre-programmed to take what Chris Matthews and Wolf Blitzer say. Folks, Obama has NO solutions, and Newt gives solutions, and is mocked. We have too many people not willing to listen, who SUPPOSEDLY are liberal (open-minded), but instead do character assassination. Sad you don't listen.

[berber404]

Gingrich est un idiot qui ne sait rien dans l'histoire ni l'actualité il est pire que Bouche franchement voter pour lui c'est la catastrophe pour l'amérique........psychiquemen­t c'est un homme dangereux pour l'humanité qui veut faire revenir l'esclavage (faire travailler les enfants) comme il l'a dit,l'injustice fossoyer la réalité.......

je préfère un étudiant américain que ce nul dangereux

[luvitluvitbaby]

Imagine 3 and 4 year old janitors at Angel Heart Preschool in Detroit MI.

THIS COULD BE THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE!!!!

[nenuttz]

Great job, you are wonderful.

[braintnt]

For normal people honest work is always better than dealing drungs, unless you are a libral.

[Danarchistic1]

What happened to the good ole days when 12 year olds could work 12 hour days, 7 days a week in textile mills and coal mines?

[GottaLoveTaySwift13]

@Danarchistic1 The good old days? Yeah child slave labor, idiot.

[Danarchistic1]

@GottaLoveTaySwift13 You know I was being sarcastic, right?

[GottaLoveTaySwift13]

@Danarchistic1 OH good, well sometimes it's hard to understand sarcastic sayings over the internet you knowww?

[playbonb3]

What Newt was really thinking: "We should eliminate child labor laws only in poor black neighborhoods and make those little niggas shine my shoes and mop my floors. Cause all they do is eat watermelons and sell drugs."

[NikkiLurvesU]

babysitting, cutting grass and shoveling snow is not "work" it was considered "chores" when i was 13 and there is no way i would allow someone who thinks its ok to put 12 year olds to work, win the elections

[maria610421]

Gingridge, is the representitave of the nights of the living Dead, the Vampires, the parisites of humanity, the creators of poverty. The Banksters who rail road these insane lunatics as presidents of their corporations to loot the world & tell the public foolishness, & send them out to fight the poor for what little they have. These are the "ROBBERS OF THY PEOPLE" Its time to stand up & say no & if you die, die with dignity on your feet. Stop killing your brothers & look the ememies in the Eye.

[madyhealth]

Newt doesn't care if children work in their schools or not. He pretends he is compassionate about the plight of the poor (although to me he just comes off as a total douche) and as a way to change the child labour laws so that poor kids can fill jobs for companies that can pay them and treat them poorly. What is this country coming to? Love how this a-hole has the nerve to say poor people dont work. Pretty sure most poor people hold down 3-4 crappy jobs at a time just to make ends meet

[backspace4353]

did the work as a 12 year old, paper rout, work today three jobs, and this ass wants to inslave my two kids to boot.

[AnIrishVoter]

No harm having a job say at the weekends or especially during summer holidays in your teens. So long as the work is reasonable for a young person, then I see it as a positive influence in a young person's development.

[liamgrim]

@AnIrishVoter that's not really what's going on here.

[YouKidsNever]

What a lie - we were poor and we worked - newspaper routes, babysitting, detasseling, walking beans, you name it. Sick of this nonsense that poor kids don't know what work is.

[assman255]

sucked for me and I have never hurt anybody exept once shooting an intruder where i didn't get in trouble and once when family got atacked and I just scared them off doing "property damage"that made me a felon. I'm thinkin' go join jesse ventura in Mexico before I wind up in prison or fema consentration camp for not paying carbon tax or exercising 2nd ammendment. hell I bough a 3500american made mower at 17now city says if they catch me mowing grass I'll go to jail cause they banned it here!

[assman255]

all i know is when I got bullied in school it didn't matter if I fought back or not I got in just as much trouble and when I defended my family I got blackmaled into a felony via not able to affort court process as they said I made to much for defender and I only made 8hr and honest job at 19 and didn't have 10g's for private lawyer so it was 20trial w/o representation or 3 yrs probation and no rights, insurance companys mandating me out of work goverment regulates them!!this country has cont...

[MysticTutor7]

Newt is such a sleezebag. He will vote anyway he is paid to vote.

[spartxak5]

i agree 100%, he is trying to get kids out of the state of mind of welfare! DUH! if you work young, you will have the drive in your 20's not to be LAZY!!!! i agree 100%%% my first job was 14years old and i walked a mile to get to it thru poor areas & today i thank god i did or else I would be lazy, with 5 kids on welfare like some of my school mates who had no work ethics!

[tmmy773]

Tennessee Ernie Ford would tell Newt he's a piece of crap for saying this.

[KpopManiacSFL]

What about rich children? Did they earn a penny of their parents money? Poor child already understand working idiots! With no one at home, no one to tutor them, no one to aid them, barely any food to eat, living at the minimum, crappy school and neighbourhoods, single parent homes etc who wouldnt be tempted to quit and sell drugs to never feel hungry again? Don't talk about being poor before you lived it! I have! AND NO FCUKING MAN who has never felt hunger will tell me that I fing dont know ho

[KKonetzke]

Yeah, why don't we all just quit school and become business men?

[pgran]

For all you fans of The Wire, this has to ring true. Omar for VP...HA. It's time to change the people's perception that the Dems are the party of the poor. I am excited about a Gingrich presidency. On poverty, on cures for mental health, on pell grants for parent's to choose the school of their choice, on incentives for average people to tutor others in their community...these are solutions that seems so practical, cheap, and deep. I'm with Newt (and Omar).

[bloweduptruck]

That is a fair criticism. I agree there is nothing wrong with working as a kid, I started my first real job at 15. I do however disagree with the premise that the main contributing factor to poverty is that poor people don't know what hard work is, or have any role models in their community that work hard. That is completely backwards from my experience. It's hard not to think someone is naive for making it one of their 2 principles on fixing poverty.

[ImUrFanGirl]

@bloweduptruck ARE YOU SERIOUS. Poor people have a way better work ethic than the rich. These people work two- jobs, overtime hours at the jobs the average person points their nose up at. while you wash the car and mowed the lawn and thought that was hard work. I was learning how to fix a car and a washing machine and I'm a girl. The problem is poor area = poor education system and less opportunities.

[anharmyenone]

This video is designed to imply that if children do chores that equates with children in sweatshops. The video fails. When you don't make children do chores, they grow up helpless in life and bitter and resentful toward other people who work hard.

[shantonu9]

@anharmyenone He is not talking about doing chores. He is talking about having children push mops to clean up schools and paying them for it. That's child labor and would be illegal under the current laws. He wants to change that and make it legal to employ children. Unless I have misunderstood him, he means children of 12 years of age.