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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

At a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa Thursday, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said children in poor neighborhoods have "no habits of working," no one around them works and they get cash illegally.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbs; gingrich; hitpiece; lsm; msm; newt; newtgingrich
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Never ever trust CBS. Newt is trying to help inner city kids with jobs not hand outs. His statement is not foolish unless we want to now enter fantasy land that all is well in the cities. Just incredible.


81 posted on 12/02/2011 7:19:27 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Ah! Someone else who remembers this classic series!


82 posted on 12/02/2011 7:19:30 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Let's have a Cain Mutiny!)
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To: tacticalogic

Yeah, well, our culture has come to worship the wrong things.

I am so tired, I don’t know how to fight it with my own kids thinking sex and money is everything and I find myself also wishing for no money stresses, what ever happened to altruism, loyalty, living for others, refusing to take unfair advantage....people think you are daft if you say those things.........


83 posted on 12/02/2011 7:19:30 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: CAluvdubya

P.S., if you are a Cain person, then you have chosen one candidate who is an alleged adulterer, and are defending another one (Newt) that is a known adulterer, 2 times over. Nice choices on your part.


84 posted on 12/02/2011 7:20:21 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: cripplecreek

By Newt’s definition you weren’t poor.


85 posted on 12/02/2011 7:20:28 AM PST by rwilson99 (Please tell me how the words "shall not perish and have everlasting life" would NOT apply to Mary.)
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To: yldstrk

Can you believe now the media will portray Newt as dissing poor kids when he is talking about getting them job skills? And some on here will now pretend Newt Gingrich is blaming the kids he’d like to help. Or that it’s his fault. Oy.


86 posted on 12/02/2011 7:24:30 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: flaglady47
if you are a Cain person, then you have chosen one candidate who is an alleged adulterer, and are defending another one (Newt) that is a known adulterer, 2 times over. Nice choices on your part.

okay, gotcha...the truth matters not to you, it's the allegation that's important.

Bless your heart....

87 posted on 12/02/2011 7:24:35 AM PST by CAluvdubya (Cain is not the one that called me "heartless" and "inhumane"! MERRY CHRISTMAS!)
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To: Williams

He wants more government. He wants government make-work jobs.

I am sure he thinks a government jobs program for kids will put a man on mars or something.


88 posted on 12/02/2011 7:26:41 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: rwilson99

I doubt anybody in the race really knows what poor is.


89 posted on 12/02/2011 7:27:18 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: miss marmelstein

LOL! I remember this series when it was in re-runs on CBN television. My local ABC station has a channel on their digital subcarrier that carries classic TV shows and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis comes on at 6:30am. LOL


90 posted on 12/02/2011 7:27:44 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: RockinRight

I am sure Newt will come up with a government program to solve this. Newt is not a conservative on ANY issue. Frankly, he is a leftist on every single domestic issue.


91 posted on 12/02/2011 7:28:18 AM PST by Gipper08 (www.travishankins.com...a real CONSERVATIVE)
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To: Daffynition
Here is something newt said today on abc... and it should concern every one of you. He was asked about his not attacking other republican candidates and newt made his statement again and he then... EXACTLY AS mccain did... he said that he "WOULD BE THE NOMINEE"... and that this coming election WOULD NOT BE A REFERENDUM ON obama... it would NOT BE ABOUT obama... that he was not going to attack obama etc etc etc... same as mccain did. We know exactly how that worked out for mccain. newt is embracing the failed politics of the high road... just like Bush and his “NEW TONE” garbage.

I had to read post after post by those trying to rationalize mccain... they said the high road is the right path... that we are better than the dims... well that is a false premise... you cannot win a fight without landing blows and if you refuse to fight... you will get the crap beat out of yourself.

If newt is nominated... he will be destroyed in the media while he will refuse to fight obama down in the gutter where obama lives.

AS RICK FLAIR SAYS... AND RICK IS A WINNER AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN... “TO BE THE MAN... YOU GOTTA BEAT THE MAN”. You cannot beat a political opponent by refusing to point out his weaknesses and failures... and with obamao... those are huge and are both PERSONAL and POLITICAL. I cannot believe how blind some Conservatives are.

LLS

92 posted on 12/02/2011 7:28:51 AM PST by LibLieSlayer ("Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness." Ronaldo Magnus)
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To: cripplecreek

I don’t know about the others but I think Cain and Bachmann know what it’s like being poor.


93 posted on 12/02/2011 7:29:59 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I’m old enough to remember it on its initial run.

Work? WORK????


94 posted on 12/02/2011 7:31:20 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Let's have a Cain Mutiny!)
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To: CAluvdubya

okay, gotcha...the truth matters not to you, it’s the allegation that’s important.

Newt’s adulterous affairs are well documented, for years now. I see you have your blinders on.


95 posted on 12/02/2011 7:32:06 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: jtal

Bingo Bingo Bingo. CBS is the worst and some Freepers need to get their heads out of their asses.

Which is it now? Gingrich is a flaming liberal but he insults poor people for not working?

Reality: he is talking about getting kids some work for $$ experience rather than a handout. CBS is evil and will use pretzel like logic to deny the kids such help. Now Newt is their enemy for wanting to help them develop good work habits!


96 posted on 12/02/2011 7:32:33 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: EricT.
"I'm not feeling sorry for someone who is given a free education with multiple opportunities for vocational training, apprenticeships and/or internships"

Back in the 80s or early 90s, I'd have agreed with you. The job market in this country just isn't what it was twenty (or even five) years ago.
97 posted on 12/02/2011 7:33:07 AM PST by CowboyJay (Generic Republican - 2012. He's the only 'electable' candidate.)
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To: flaglady47
P.S., if you are a Cain person, then you have chosen one candidate who is an alleged adulterer, and are defending another one (Newt) that is a known adulterer, 2 times over. Nice choices on your part.

Seems to me that we expect more out of today's politicians personal lives than our nation's founders could have mustered.
98 posted on 12/02/2011 7:34:00 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: cripplecreek
I doubt anybody in the race really knows what poor is.

I would wonder how many of the so called poor in this country, really knows what poor is.
99 posted on 12/02/2011 7:34:42 AM PST by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: Beagle8U

Uh section 8 housing is a cancer esp under Obama.


100 posted on 12/02/2011 7:35:05 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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