You are twisting Newt's words and missing an important point in this discussion about what young people need, particularly low-income teens. Newt Gingrich points out that poor children benefit when taught real-life job skills during their K-12 years. Change K-12 curriculum so our children earn their Associate Degree by age 18—legal adulthood. Our education system cripples poor children the most by delaying their ability to become self-sufficient and earn money. We can reduce high school drop out rates, teen social problems and poverty by focusing on marketable job skills at an early age to enable low-income kids to contribute to their family income sooner. Many of today's "kids" are totally out-of-sync with normal life-stage development because they are dependent on Mommy and Daddy until their late twenties and thirties still attending college. Focus more on vocational training in K-12 so young people learn how to support themselves and not acquire a dependency orientation in the first place!
Twisting the words spoken? "Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they 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 it's illegal." I fail to see how words could be twisted in this manner. Again, I know parents who work and support their families-academically and financially who don't have a great income and they certainly DO NOT have their children do illegal thing or teach them how to do illegal things but INSIST they stay in school and work honestly.
What! Does he realize that the current Speaker of the House (Boehner) was crying emotionally (nothing new to him) about his poverty stricken youth and how he worked his way up to his current position? Untold young people have worked their way through college, trying to make something of themselves, including myself. Studies have shown that a majority of military recruits are from lower middle to lower class backgrounds who join from both patriotism and to get the GI Bill to get educations to become upwardly mobile. I was a teen-aged single mother living in assisted housing and joined the Army at 19 and my high scores qualified me to go to LVN school. Then I went to college in my spare time to become an RN and got promoted to officer and was sent to military training to became a physician assistant. All legal, thank you very much. What. A. Doosh. It's called the American dream, you beady-eyed, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, spittle-spraying, beetle-browed Trogodyte.
It's interesting that he criticizes the very people who have paid in part for his estimated $181,400 wage ( wage paid to Speaker of the House in the year 2000- He left in 1999)- see http://www.legistorm.com/member_of_congress_salaries.html I know children who's parents struggle to make ends meet AND have a very strong work ethic who make about 10-15 percent of what he did; insist that their children work hard at HOMEWORK to LEARN to READ and WRITE to MAKE DECISIONS for themselves so they can have what they want HONESTLY. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON this man deserves to represent ANYONE in THIS COUNTRY.
It's interesting that the very people who have paid in part for his estimated $181,400 wage ( wage paid to Speaker of the House in the year 2000- He left in 1999)- see http://www.legistorm.com/member_of_congress_salaries.html can be oh so critical of systems and people. I know children who's parents struggle to make ends meet AND have a very strong work ethic who make about 10-15 percent of what he does; insist that their children work hard at HOMEWORK to LEARN to READ and WRITE to MAKE DECISIONS for themselves so they can have what they want HONESTLY. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON this man deserves to represent ANYONE in THIS COUNTRY.
Every single one of these so called "elected officials" needs some supernatural guidance. Some are making **** poor decisions.. and we are letting them! Time to really do our homework and stop the eenry-minee-miney-mo at the ballot box! Newt aint to astute!!!
Lawd Jesus we have elected complete morons! Maybe this will show the American people that allowing these so called representative into these position have decayed the fiber of our democratic system and we are to blame for being so complacent and not making them tow the line and be accountable for what they "do" say and promise....We need the sandman in both houses(a la Apollo Theater) to bring the hook and clear the joint out!
I think Newt showed his true colors with this insanely racist comment. This country does not need his kind of thinking. Instead of having kids clean toilets and mop the floor in school how about giving them more educational programs, arts and literature, to show them what the world can offer outside of their poor environment. This man has no morals and should not even think about leading this country.
This guy is as dumb as can be. (there's a song there somewhere, lol) He is so far out of reality makes his a*s sqeak. And I suppose the kids in the rich neighborhoods work too. I mean, mom and dad can buy them cars, cell phones, clothes, food, etc, but I think that goes on until their about 35 years old, then uh oh. Guess he's not looking for the black vote, or any other minorities vote. Mr Grinch, you need to live in the ghetto, for a week, then maybe you can talk your sh*t. Until then, you have no clue as to what poor kids do. Where did you get that info, that you can remark about?
NOT TRUE! I like Newt Gingrich! Newt is intelligent, well thought out, a good academic, a good debater, and he has experience. Is he perfect? No, but I don't know anyone who is. Newt Gingrich had only one alleged "ethics violation", and a subsequent IRS ruling essentially CLEARED him on that one. Newt knows Washington, and won't need "on the job training". Newt is a "real" candidate and is not "manufactured" meaning that he hasn't had his whole history hidden, and then re manufactured through his books as the current president. Before you judge Newt, visit his website and watch some of his speeches; he's a wonderful orator! Newt Gingrich has my vote of confidence!See Newt Gingrich at his best here:http://youtu.be/SQxturElvxI
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I fail to see how words could be twisted in this manner. Again, I know parents who work and support their families-academically and financially who don't have a great income and they certainly DO NOT have their children do illegal thing or teach them how to do illegal things but INSIST they stay in school and work honestly.
I know children who's parents struggle to make ends meet AND have a very strong work ethic who make about 10-15 percent of what he did; insist that their children work hard at HOMEWORK to LEARN to READ and WRITE to MAKE DECISIONS for themselves so they can have what they want HONESTLY.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON this man deserves to represent ANYONE in THIS COUNTRY.
can be oh so critical of systems and people. I know children who's parents struggle to make ends meet AND have a very strong work ethic who make about 10-15 percent of what he does; insist that their children work hard at HOMEWORK to LEARN to READ and WRITE to MAKE DECISIONS for themselves so they can have what they want HONESTLY.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON this man deserves to represent ANYONE in THIS COUNTRY.
Lawd Jesus we have elected complete morons! Maybe this will show the American people that allowing these so called representative into these position have decayed the fiber of our democratic system and we are to blame for being so complacent and not making them tow the line and be accountable for what they "do" say and promise....We need the sandman in both houses(a la Apollo Theater) to bring the hook and clear the joint out!
He is so far out of reality makes his a*s sqeak.
And I suppose the kids in the rich neighborhoods work too. I mean, mom and dad can buy them cars, cell phones, clothes, food, etc, but I think that goes on until their about 35 years old, then uh oh.
Guess he's not looking for the black vote, or any other minorities vote.
Mr Grinch, you need to live in the ghetto, for a week, then maybe you can talk your sh*t.
Until then, you have no clue as to what poor kids do. Where did you get that info, that you can remark about?