Comments on: Newt Gingrich, poor children, and work habits

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:35:50 +0000

It’s better for the school to pay them nothing and call it “volunteer” work when they require it for credited graduation, than “pay them” anything. Paying them would be slavery after all. Volunteering them, that’s social justice right there.

By: heather

heather — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:10:31 +0000

Just tonight at dinner, my nine year old was lamenting that she is too young to get a “real” job that pays money.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:49:05 +0000

I learned a while back that black men and women who were raised by their birth fathers and mothers made good employees, mostly. Black men and women from single parents were not good employees. Imagine that.

Funny, though. White kids who were raised by their birth parents made better employees than those raised by single parents. I think I’m seeing a trend.

By: Bookworm Room » The schizophrenia of modern public (i.e., Progressive) schools

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:21:09 +0000

[...] culture infantilizes young people. Just think about the way the whole liberal world had a collective head explosion when Newt suggested that young people get jobs to learn the value of discipline and achieve the [...]

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:43:46 +0000

The Left can’t be having slaves supporting themselves here, people. That isn’t going to be allowed.

By: jj

jj — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:44:31 +0000

Growing up on a farm, us childs didn’t know if child labor laws were stupid or not; all we knew about them was that they were irrelevant, or didn’t apply – or something. Dad didn’t know from child labor. He was amusing himself, as I have said - but we planted it, fertilized it, weeded it, harvested it, and then sold it, and he expected attendance and general usefulness from us just as much as he did from the guys he paid.

People put the arm on third-world kids working for a dollar a day or whatever, which is completely understandable. But I always find myself wondering: would they be better off without the daily dollar?

Yes, Newt’s willingness to call bologna baloney is a very good thing.

By: Libby

Libby — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:18:20 +0000

I also think that Newt is talking about families where they’ve remained in poverty for generations, like what we saw in New Orleans after Katrina. How can a child learn a work ethic when he’s raised by a government subsidized mom and grandmother (and likely no father present). These families are vastly different from families that are poor for a spell but then work their way out of it (such as recent immigrants, or families where the working parent(s) was laid off, etc.).