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In reply to the discussion: Mining Would Be Exciting For Kids: Trumps Secretary Of Education Wants Legal Child Labor [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,270 posts)51. It was Gingrich who suggested
that the poor kids could be put to work as janitors in the public schools instead of the unionized janitors:
"You say to somebody, you shouldn't go to work before you're what, 14, 16 years of age, fine," Mr. Gingrich said. "You're totally poor. You're in a school that is failing with a teacher that is failing. I've tried for years to have a very simple model. 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 would have pride in the schools, they'd begin the process of rising."
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/newt-gingrich-thinks-school-children-should-work-as-janitors/248837/
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Snarkoleptic
Nov 2016
OP
What a sick, sick person! Trump is declaring war on the American evidenced by the people he is
smirkymonkey
Nov 2016
#2
Black Lung Disease puts hair on your chest and makes frail little boys real men!
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#41
DeVos and the Kochs, Daltons and other Plutocrats want to bring back serfdom.
Dustlawyer
Nov 2016
#12
Not that I'm defending this crazy shit, but child labor has always been legal for farm kids
NickB79
Nov 2016
#16
See my post #36 below. Coal mining destroyed Grandpa's lungs. He went to the mines at age 13. nt
tblue37
Nov 2016
#37
Because to a Republican, people who don't earn money have no value at all as people. nt
tblue37
Nov 2016
#38
Well, no offense was meant by my last re to your post 59, but I deleted it anyhow. nt
Mc Mike
Dec 2016
#62
"Valued as people" TYPICAL of RW assholes to think that children and others are not valued
Maru Kitteh
Nov 2016
#42
And when the kids get black lung disease and other occupational related disorders,
smirkymonkey
Nov 2016
#54
Of course the rich folks wouldn't want THEIR kids to prove their value as people
tblue37
Nov 2016
#60