Posted on 12/07/2011 7:05:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Not quite, Jonah. The GOP voters have noticed that Newt is taking the fight to Obama instead of the other GOP candidates.
Jonah's just all pissy that the surge hasn't gone to his dream candidate Mitt.
Newtie is a Grinch when it comes to delivering on smaller, less intrusive government.
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He noted that when Newsweek asked Oprah Winfrey why she went to South Africa and not south Chicago to open a girls school, she responded: I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isnt there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they dont ask for money or toys, they ask for uniforms so they can go to school.
Wow. He does get it. Well, I think a lot of pols get it but few will say it. Even Newt is being nuanced, but he's saying it here...the schools are bad for 2 reasons, one that a lot of conservatives will say publicly, and one that they won't:
1. Unions and bureaucracy (most will admit this)
2. The kids themselves have no willingness to learn. (Newt hasn't said it quite this bluntly but has alluded to it)
SEE, SEE, Newt's a liberal SOB that loves Oprah! He's sitting on a couch with Oprah, He's a racist, he wants Black kids to clean TOILETS, can you say racist sterotype?
Do I have to say “sarc”?
What Newt said wasn't politically correct, but it was true. For the most part, the extremely poor are that way because they won't work. And they are teaching their kids that same "lifestyle".
I see nothing wrong with allowing poor kids to get paid for cleaning toilets (or whatever needs cleaned) at their school. They'd earn money and perhaps, just perhaps, start learning respect for property.
stereotype
I’m fine with what Newt said.
No, we've just noticed that the campaign is coming down to Newt and Mitt, and Mitt is worse. Also when the fight by Obama gets dirty, Mitt will just say "Thank you, sir. May I have another."
Now to edit Newt's quote to make it even more pithy...
Really poor children in really poor neighborhoodsCongressmen in Washington have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works, Gingrich explained recently in Iowa when asked to clarify his position. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of I do this and you give me cash, unless its illegal.
Hmm. Well, what Moynihan said was correct, actually. As far as Newt, yeah, he's a tinkerer and seems to usually prefer "cheaper government that does things" to "smaller government that doesn't do so much", but I would call it a stretch to think Newt feels he can "fix" culture...
He proposes that the local Government FIRE the cleaning staff and supervise the children who are paid significantly less than janitors and custodians that are union minions.
In The Cleveland Public Schools, for example, the custodians make more money than the teachers. They average over Eighty Thousand Dollars a year. They also are required to mop the cafeteria floors no more than once a week weather it needs it or not.
Gingrich also proposes that Social Security is made into a system that allows workers to put their portion of the FICA tax into a private account. He proposes to pay for it by closing the 180 poverty programs at the Federal Level and laying off the hundreds of thousands of Government workers working in these bureaucrats.
He would then Block Grant the money to the states for them to use as they see fit. This gives MORE Liberty and LESS Federal Government encrochment on our lives. Not more.
So, considering the demographics that now compose this nation of 18 year old and up voters, this is going to get Gingrich elected how?
So Newt speaks the cold, hard truth, and the fags from both the left and the almost left {our heroes from FOX, National Review etal} pee in their collective depends.
Newt says what we know to be true, and it offends the welfare queens, and the demonRAT and media bastards that promote them.
There was an Amish woman with 15 bastard kids on TV from Florida, within the past week, and her message was that "someone needs to be held accountable and pay for her kids".
Do you think that any of those kids has a clue about the work ethic?
God help us.
I don’t think conservatives are confused at all about what Gingrich is. He’s basically an intellectual version of GWB. Empathy will drag him to places our pocket books can’t afford to go. But I’d rather fight with a foolish friend, than rely on a fake one.
This phrase is utter nonsense, the sort I wouldn't expect from Jonah Goldberg.
Gingrich proposed no new government program, no money spent, no new intrusive beaurecracy.
He proposed a repeal of federal government rules that overreach and make the poverty issue worse. On this issue, at least, his ideas were entirely consistent with smaller-government, conservative principles.
Poor kids.
Enough of “compassion”. That is the door to communism.
That being said, there is a truth to the linkage between the poor and crime. Poor people, more so than rich people, are breeding ground for criminal activity because of class envy, jealousy, and general desperation.
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