Gingrich Doubles Down On Child Labor: Poor Kids Should 'Clean The Bathroom'

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Gingrich Doubles Down On Child Labor: Poor Kids Should ‘Clean The Bathroom’

By Lidane

Wingnuts • December 2011 • Views: 1,959

And this man is the current GOP front runner. That should bother every sane person left in this country.

From ThinkProgress:

Conceding ever so slightly to flak he’s taken for calling child labor laws ‘stupid’ and suggesting that schools fire janitors and replace with them poor kids, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich got more specific today, saying working-class students should be limited to jobs like cleaning bathrooms. Bowing to concerns that janitorial work is dangerous, Gingrich floated, ‘What if they became assistant janitors and their jobs were to mop the floor and clean the bathroom?’ Watch it:

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6 comments

andres Sun, Dec 4, 2011 12:01:39pm

I'm all for teaching kids work ethics, but this is beyond ridiculous.

If this "gem" had come from a fringe candidate, with no hope of getting 3% of the votes, it wouldn't bother me. There are plenty of people like that, and 3% won't win any election.

But this is coming from, not only a "respectable" political party, not only from the current front runner, but also from a person who's usually referred to as an intellectual.

Dear God, I think the worst is still to come...

dragonfire1981 Sun, Dec 4, 2011 4:02:42pm

You know the GOP is fucked when Ron Paul is now one of their sanest, most rational candidates.

Mostly sane, most of the time. Sun, Dec 4, 2011 4:44:40pm

Mr. Gingrich should lead by example. Let's see him clean a bathroom.

Let's see him locate the cleaning supplies in his own house. Without asking the help.

Romantic Heretic Sun, Dec 4, 2011 7:09:02pm

I'm repeating this story, as I have everywhere I've seen this on the internet.

I worked as a janitor for a while. It was in a place that used to be a distillery that had been converted into a cultural space. Artists, art galleries, theatre companies, restaurants etc.

Because it was a sprawling complex and security wasn't tight the local homeless population, which had increased a great deal when we had a 'conservative' premier and not reversed when 'liberals' took over, had discovered they could use one of the more isolated bathrooms. They did so until security tightened up, and the bathroom became too filthy even for them to use.

I got the job of cleaning that out. One urinal, one toilet and one sink took an hour and a half to clean. I started the job by shovelling old faeces into a garbage bag with my gloved hands. Then spent half an hour scrubbing the faeces encrusted toilet and urinal down. It was pretty much like a normal clean after that. It was a hideously unpleasant job and I'm amazed I didn't catch something horrible from it.

There's no way I'd want any kid to do that job. I do want Mr. Gingrich to do it just so he can finally have a reality check.

OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Dec 4, 2011 7:25:03pm

Traditional conservative family values

SanFranciscoZionist Sun, Dec 4, 2011 10:51:23pm

In Japan, I am told, the kids are responsible for cleaning and maintaining their own classrooms. I assume that the real janitor does stuff like wax the floor or whatever, but the kids do the mopping and such.

That's a nice idea. Of course, all the kids, regardless of how much money their families have, do the cleaning.

What an amazingly Dickensien mind Newt has.

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