Gingrich: Really Poor Kids Don’t Know How To Work — Unless It’s Illegally (VIDEO)

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Gingrich: Really Poor Kids Don’t Know How To Work — Unless It’s Illegally

On Thursday, Newt Gingrich reaffirmed previous comments that child labor laws are “truly stupid.” At a campaign event in Iowa, Gingrich explained that poor children need to learn how to earn money, rather than get it illegally.

“They have no habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash’-unless it’s illegal,” Gingrich said, according to multiple reports of the event.

A few weeks ago, Gingrich proposed a program in which janitors’ unions in schools would be thrown out and replaced with poor children. This, Gingrich said, would allow these children to learn how to work — something he says they do not learn in their communities. “Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday,” Gingrich said Thursday.

While the presentation may be abrasive, Newt’s comments are pretty traditional conservative fair — especially for the man famous for passing welfare reform in the 1990s. Gingrich’s most famous legislative accomplishment added a work requirement to welfare and pushed thousands of poor people out of the welfare system. Gingrich has reinvented himself many times, but the idea that what the poor really need is a better work ethic, is still classic Newt

VIDEO at LINK: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/really-poor-kids-have-no-work-habits----unless-its-illegal.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

[Enrique]

1. getting money illegally

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich

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Eighty-four ethics charges were filed against Speaker Gingrich during his term, including claiming tax-exempt status for a college course run for political purposes. Following an investigation by the House Ethics Committee Gingrich was sanctioned US$300,000.<68> Gingrich acknowledged in January 1997 that "In my name and over my signature, inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the committee". <69> The House Ethics Committee concluded that inaccurate information supplied to investigators represented "intentional or ... reckless" disregard of House rules.<70> Special Counsel James M. Cole concluded that Gingrich violated federal tax law and had lied to the ethics panel in an effort to force the committee to dismiss the complaint against him. The full committee panel did not agree whether tax law had been violated<71> and left that issue up to the IRS.<72> In 1999, the IRS cleared the organizations connected with the "Renewing American Civilization" courses under investigation for possible tax violations.<73><74>

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2. Oink, oink.

Newt is such a pig. :kick: & rec