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Gingrich: Poor kids don't work
CBSNews.com ^ | December 1, 2011 | staff reporter

Posted on 12/02/2011 6:18:45 AM PST by Daffynition

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To: Williams

There is no reason that kids under 18, who don’t have others to support, should have the same minimum wage as people over the age of 18.


101 posted on 12/02/2011 7:35:32 AM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: ZX12R

Good point.

My 13 year old niece was throwing a tantrum the other day because my sister cut off the cable TV to her bedroom. My sister and her husband are what I would consider to be working poor.


102 posted on 12/02/2011 7:38:12 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Daffynition
I was unable to find a full transcript of the video clip or a full version any where on the internet. In addition, there is an undisclosed edit at time mark 0:39. This is what I did find combined with my transcription: Nowhere in the clip did he say that government should be the one to employ these kids. Can anyone take issue with what he really said? This is the most insightful explanation I have seen for the disintegration of the inner-city and the collapse of the minority family. Please ping me if anyone finds a longer video or full transcript, I would really like to see it.
103 posted on 12/02/2011 7:38:51 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: cripplecreek

“Seems to me that we expect more out of today’s politicians personal lives than our nation’s founders could have mustered.”

Oh yes, I’m sure Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and the others had lots of affairs and cheated on their wives. Sure.


104 posted on 12/02/2011 7:39:04 AM PST by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: GeronL

He wants no such thing snap out of it. Gingrich is the new liberal let’s all stay home for Obama! Gingrich said something CBS didn’t like boo hoo.


105 posted on 12/02/2011 7:41:10 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: Gipper08

Gingrich is flawed, but it’s intellectually dishonest to say he’s a leftist. The guy has a 90% lifetime rating from the ACU for Pete’s sake!


106 posted on 12/02/2011 7:42:57 AM PST by RockinRight (If you're waiting to drink until you find pure water, you're going to die of dehydration.)
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To: flaglady47

Jefferson? Franklin? Hamilton?

Better read some more history.


107 posted on 12/02/2011 7:43:55 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

It’s the govt fault. My college educated brother who grew up in one of the richest zip codes in America has never had a job because he gets everything from the California welfare system. He knows how to work the system he’s an expert on getting everything paid for. He has raised 3 sons in his image and California is paying to feed his 150lb mastiff dog in a three bedroom apt. Wake up America some people need welfare and some dont


108 posted on 12/02/2011 7:45:46 AM PST by cnsmom (csmom)
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To: cripplecreek
My 13 year old niece was throwing a tantrum the other day because my sister cut off the cable TV to her bedroom. My sister and her husband are what I would consider to be working poor.

I live in a very small community in the south, where there are plenty of the working and chronically unemployed poor, in fact, when I go to the local grocery store, I'd swear that my wife and I are the only two people that don't whip out a free shit card. If this represents the majority of the so called poor, they are doing okay. Most of them, anyway.
109 posted on 12/02/2011 7:45:53 AM PST by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: RockinRight
:::::Granted, he’s broken a few rules on the “list of things you can’t say in public”:::::::

And I find that very refreshing, finally someone who will dare to say what is on all our minds, get it out there front and center and deal with the problem. We need more Welfare Reform.

He is not saying they are Lazy, just they have no positive influence, and he is absolutely correct. Not that should really matter, if one is a self starter and REALLY wanted to improve themselves, but for most of them, it is a way of life and they are afraid of their "peers" (yuk), to make the change.

110 posted on 12/02/2011 7:47:51 AM PST by annieokie
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To: RockinRight

I swear I’m expecting half of us may get banned from FR for supporting Newt Gingrich if some of these people have their way!

Ok I accepted no support for Romney but now I have to accept that Gingrich is a liberal. I can assure people Obama IS a liberal.


111 posted on 12/02/2011 7:48:29 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: Williams

So he didn’t propose giving them paying jobs cleaning the schools??


112 posted on 12/02/2011 7:49:20 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL
“Poor neighborhoods”

aka ghettos

aka “under-served communities”

Not all are lazy, the drug sellers are real hustlers

and not all are criminal, collecting welfare for 5 generations is no crime

Newt is right, the kid from these neighborhoods who exhibits ambition and drive usually makes the headlines
as an anomaly

113 posted on 12/02/2011 7:50:13 AM PST by silverleaf (common sense is not so common- voltaire)
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To: Williams

“Jefferson? Franklin? Hamilton?

Better read some more history.”

I have toots. And I didn’t list Franklin, you did. And I don’t swallow for one minute the politically correct rendition that it was Thomas Jefferson that was the Jefferson who had relations with Sally Hemming. That’s the Libs’ point of view of history, and has been disputed by panels other than the first one that wanted so badly for it to be Tom Jefferson that was doing it with Sally. But you believe whatever version of history you want to concoct in your mind. We actually don’t know whether Franklin, who was a ladies man, actually had a French sweetie or not, although it appears he may have. His wife was back home in the U.S. for years while he was in France. Anyway, Franklin was never President either.


114 posted on 12/02/2011 7:52:23 AM PST by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: flaglady47
Oh yes, I’m sure Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and the others had lots of affairs and cheated on their wives. Sure.

Well yes, some instances are well documented. Ben Franklin ditched his family and spent years sleeping around while working in France. When he returned he shacked up with another woman. Andrew Jackson wasn't exactly a founder but he was married to a married woman.

Would you like me to find the letter from Ben Franklin to a friend who he was encouraging him to sow his wild oats to a widow? (He suggested putting a bag over the head of an older woman)

Like it or not our nation's founders were mere mortals.
115 posted on 12/02/2011 7:52:26 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Daffynition

The “oh no..it can’t be done, stinking way of thinking” is one of the many reasons why our nation is in/on a decline.


116 posted on 12/02/2011 7:54:16 AM PST by Goldie Lurks (professional moonbat catcher)
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To: cripplecreek

“Ben Franklin ditched his family and spent years sleeping around while working in France.”

Franklin didn’t “ditch” his wife to go to France, he went at the request of his young country, and she didn’t want to go.


117 posted on 12/02/2011 7:55:30 AM PST by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: Daffynition

My about seven years ago my sister managed a Subway shop in the Greater Cincinnatti area. She hired a teenager to work for her. He worked his tail off, every day, after school and through the summer.

One August, right before the start of his sophomore year, his parents decided that they couldn’t pay to send him to the private Catholic school that his siblings had gone to, anymore. This kid really valued that educational experience and he wanted it for himself.

He made a deal with his parents. He wanted to increase his after school working hours and weekend hours at the Subway shop, so that he could pay his own private tuition. They agreed, provided he kept his grades up.

He worked all the time and deposited his earnings into a joint account with his parents. He continued to work throughout his school year, saving money. And his parents wrote a tuition check for him, faithfully. He finished his sophomore year and junior year. He had enough money saved up at the end of his senior year to pay for the entire year, without having to kill himself working so many hours. He was very proud of his work ethic and thought that the work was worth it, because he loved going to that private Catholic school.

He enrolled for his senior year and started classes, very happy and well-adjusted.

Then the principal called him into the office to inform him that the tuition check hadn’t been sent in time for the fall semester. He wasn’t welcome at the school anymore.

He rushed home to his parents, worried. He knew he’d saved that money and that he had budgeted to pay for the full year’s tuition, all by himself.

What he didn’t know is that earlier that summer his parents had drained that account and spent it on themselves on frivolous things that they wanted and had nothing to do with nurturing or raising their son.

He had to work even more hours to pay for that last year. He rarely slept. He worked and went to school, scrimping and saving every penny.

I cannot imagine the huge hole in the trust that his parents had made when they’d squandered their own child’s educational savings. It must have damaged their relationship with their son.

He’s a good kid, and I hope that he has healed his heart while at the same time learned to really work for himself. He can’t count on his parents, obviously.


118 posted on 12/02/2011 7:55:58 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife ("Real solidarity means coming together for the common good."-Sarah Palin)
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To: Williams
Move it back to nothing but big nasty housing projects, no single family homes covered.

The goal is to make it as miserable as possible. The problem now is because they cover rents in halfway nice apartments and even single family homes.

119 posted on 12/02/2011 7:56:12 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: RockinRight

He is a leftist on health care, the environment, immigration,
agriculture, finance (bailouts,corporate welfare,freemarkets),
abortion, energy (in terms of corporate welfare and the enviornment), entitlements,size of government in general...on education he supports the DOE and other things but I wouldn’t quibble with those who say he is a moderate on education.

Not to mention he is a sell out...so those issues which is not already inclined to be a corporate socialist he can be flipped for a price.

Not to mention he is a horrible, horrible, horrible manager and leader. Being a good communicator and strategist has nothing to do with being a leader. Look at Obama.

The ACU is good for nothing. (except giving big government Republicans “conservative” cover).

If NEwt had been a “conervative “ speaker then we would have a 1.8 trillion dollars budget, ZERO national debt, a 30 trillion dollar economy, and Obama certainly would not be President.


120 posted on 12/02/2011 7:56:53 AM PST by Gipper08 (www.travishankins.com...a real CONSERVATIVE)
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