Newt: Take on teachers' union to end poverty

[Rose Siding]

Speaking at a fundraiser in Raleigh Wednesday night, Gingrich suggested that the former North Carolina senator's approach to solving poverty is wrong.

Gingrich said that the main cause of poverty is a lack of education and that many public schools, particularly those that serve inner-city students, were failing because of incompetency.

"My challenge to your former senator who is running around the country prattling about ending poverty is simple: Take on the teacher's union," Gingrich told about 200 people at a dinner at the North Raleigh Hilton for state Sen. Fred Smith.

"I'd be delighted to come back down and have a dialogue with Senator Edwards about how to truly help the poor," he said. "We might even have a charity night, and all the money we raise that night would go to the poor. So we would actually do something to help the poor as opposed to talking about helping the poor."
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"People worried about feeding their children don't need politicians shooting their mouths off at partisan political events who didn't do anything significant about poverty when they had the chance," Edwards spokeswoman Kim Rubey said in a statement.

http://www.newsobserver.com/114/story/456037.html

[sandnsea]

1. Republicanism is the main cause of poverty

People who believe the elite should have everything and to hell with everybody else.

In other words, stfu Newt. You don't give a shit about why anybody is poor.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. God, he sounds so dated.

[adwon]

3. Wow

It's really nice to see Newt mentioned and think to myself, "He's still around? I forgot all about him."

[Joe Bacon]

4. Hey, is Newt cheating on his latest wife yet?

Once you get started...it's sooooooooooo hard to stop!

[leesa]

5. I never knew it was so easy! All we have to do to end poverty is to

dissolve the teacher's unions! You mean we don't even have to 'take out' a trial lawyer or two??

[suegeo]

6. I'm naming my newest chin zit "Gingrich"

[gulliver]

7. It's about time someone stood up to teachers.

Teachers don't need more money and better working conditions. What teachers need is a good 'ol kick in the pants from a true blue, red-blooded, white Republican ex-Congressman. Then maybe we'll start to get some work out of these incompetents. What are they gonna do, quit?

[midnight armadillo]

8. I thought poverty was caused by a lack of money

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[Jack Rabbit]

9. Edwards is wrong about one thing

People worried about feeding their children don't need politicians shooting their mouths off at partisan political events who didn't do anything significant about poverty when they had the chance.
When Gingrich had the chance, he got the House to pass welfare deform. It made a bad welfare system worse.