I personally want to see Newt Gingrich working as a janitor.

We need more Newts!

Although I wouldn't vote for him - that's going to Paul regardless.

But Newt rocks!

And this from lazy, freezing Mpls.

My tenants sell their EBT cards for cash - $.50 to the dollar.

Then buy Chocolate wraps for their blunts but they buy the shitty weed cause we only put such a small monthly amount on their cards. I'm hoping we put even more on their cards - 50% markup isn't too bad for a hard days work at fraud.

I used to ask my tenants kids to help w/ minor work - pick up condoms and beer cans in the yards that they put there. They wouldn't do anything unless I paid them. So they'd get paid with the profits from the EBT fraud. Which their parents gave away for $.50 on the dollar.

Gotta love the vicious cycle...

My 2-1/2 year old grandson is a lazy son of a bitch! He needs to get a job!

Newt Gingrich is a real asshole, it's isn't so much his politics, there are other conservatives. It really is just that he is such a complete asshole and, actually, many of the commentators on TV even laugh about it.

>many of the commentators on TV even laugh about it

Wow - well done! 'Many' of them, huh? Newt's toast now!

Try to come up w/ an opinion on your own.

Does Gingrich know that he's running for president? Bringing back child labor hasn't been an argument made by a politician in this country in 100 years.

We have gotten to the point we won't let childern do anything anymore. The kids don't know how to work or have a reason to do anything because they get handed anything they want.

"Newt's toast now!"

The more the public gets to know Newt the less they will like him. He is his own worst enemy.

>Bringing back child labor...

True, but once again you're not all that interested in context.

The bigger question trying to be addressed, which you willfully ignore, is what to do w/ millions of kids who have no work ethic. Especially as the boomers invert the workforce.

Your call is to just set aside more money, tie up more resources and refuse to characterize the problem for what it is.

You leftists are funny because you believe you all think for yourselves.

Palin
perry
cain
romney
Gingrich

As your bible-like sites such as Huff post feed you articles, you flood this site with them this

Sheep.....all of you

I just had a great idea. Why couldn't we use playgrouds as pick-up sites for day laborors. That way the kids could have fun until someone picks them up for work.

"As your bible-like sites such as Huff post feed you articles, you flood this site with them this"

I could go to many right wing sites and read the exact same talking point. For someone on the right to accuse the left of being sheep is pretty funny. Question; do sheep know they are sheep? I think some sheep actually think they are wolves but they're still really sheep.

>That way the kids could have fun until someone picks them up for work.

Yes, just imagine all the crime that wouldn't be committed by someone 'bored'.

I know it's just baby-steps but you are making progress.

Not that I'm in favor of exploiting child labor but it's funny that Newt only seems to think this should be done with poor children, as if the kids in most upper middle class and rich neighborhoods have any work ethic either.

Yeah, those mops are so very dangerous?

"Yeah, those mops are so very dangerous?"

You do realize there are industrial cleaning chemicals involved as well, right?

>only seems to think this should be done with poor children, as if...

It's a start isn't it? How many of the kids in the flash-mobs are from the Upper Hamptons?

You haven't been to a big city in a long time, huh?

typical liberal distortion....

the headline that is....

So what. I'm tired of the pussification of American kids, who show up to work their first day at age 22 after a long life of video games, reality TV, and a college that hasn't taught them anything. I was working hard in construction since the age of 10, and in lawn care since 11. Dems would make all of that illegal, now, of course.

Vote Democrat. It's easier than getting a job.

The more the public gets to know Newt the less they will like him. He is his own worst enemy.

#7 | Posted by danni at 2011-12-03 10:51 A

your'e right as long as the liberal distoriton and lie machine is left unchecked...as in this headline which I understand of course..you know like the thing about him serving papers to his dying wife and all..

ah but thats okay..........gonna be fun.."AINT" it....

When I was a kid we worked baby sitting, helped with chores, boys mowed lawns, etc. Today many of those jobs are done by adults because it's the best jobs they can find. Just like the idea of raising the retirement age which is another idea supported by most Republicans, the theory may be fine but where are the fucking jobs????? Newt and other Republicans always complain that there are too many people not working but then they ship the jobs overseas or import Mexicans to do them for less than minimum wage.
Poor Americans will be happy to work if you offer them a decent job for a decent wage. This ugly superior attitude among the beneficiaries of middle class upbringing and opportunity is disgusting.

The only Job an child should have is to go to school, Education is the only way out of poverty. Newt Gingrich is a RACIST PRICK that could only have been invented by the Republican party. This Asshole could have run for President in the 1800's he might have had a chance than, those fucking days are over, BRING IT ON YOU FAT BASTARD!!!!!!!

Shut up.

AFKABL2 he's nicknamed Nasty Newtie, he won't be able to shake that impression most folks have of him. Every time he opens his mouth about lazy poor kids it reinforces the image.

>The only Job an child should have is to go to school...

Ok, in this area that's 7:30a until 1:45p. Mom or dad doesn't get home for another 4 hours at the earliest.

What are your precious gifts going to do?

If you don't like to study, play sports, engage in school activities...and have no parental support or guidance for 4 hours...what are you going to do?

Smoke pot, fuck and or wreck other people's shit.

Thanks for the compassion!

>he won't be able to shake that impression most folks have of him

Is your whole existence defined by what other people think?

This is the only life you get, unless the eastern religions are real.

Have an original thought - about what you care about. Not what your candidate tells you to care about.

he's nicknamed Nasty Newtie, he won't be able to shake that impression most folks have of him. .

#20 | Posted by danni at 2011-12-03 11:20 AM | Reply | Flag:

So what. Since when is niceness a prerequisite to political office.

The same thing is being said about Bill Christy.

Only to you libs does that make a difference.

I would rather have a nasty fuck that takes no crap then a limp wrist in office any day.

rwd

typical liberal distortion....the headline that is...

Where's the distortion? Gingrich said again that he wants poor children to work as janitors at their schools.

Some years ago a talented black teen wrote about what it was like to be put in a separate food line for free-lunch kids at a mostly white suburban school in Dallas. The humiliation stuck with him for years.

We have gotten to the point we won't let childern do anything anymore. The kids don't know how to work or have a reason to do anything because they get handed anything they want.

I began working when I was 16, bagging groceries at the local Safeway supermarket. Most of my friends got jobs around that time because they wanted money to get a car. I don't think I suffered from not having to work earlier than that.

"The same thing is being said about Bill Christy."

Good God, I hope you meant Chris Christie, and that he and Bill Kristoff didn't have a bastard child together.

>I don't think I suffered from not having to work earlier than that.

I, I, I...

What the fuck - of course you didn't suffer. You probably didn't grow up in a single-parent, rented, food-stamped, HRA funded home.

Or did you, and you became an outlier.

These kids are suffering and you won't let them help themselves.

Enjoy!

Does Gingrich know that he's running for president? Bringing back child labor hasn't been an argument made by a politician in this country in 100 years.

True, but you are speaking about a man that advocated taking children from poor single mothers and putting them in orphanages (see "Contract with America" 1994).

Uh-oh. HappyEnding just got a chubby.

Good God, I hope you meant Chris Christie, #30 | Posted by Danforth

Yes, that is who I meant,New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

rwd

""The same thing is being said about Bill Christy."

I'm a liberal Democrat and I don't think Chris Christie is anywhere near as big of an asshole as Gingrich.

>putting them in orphanages...

Another brilliant move by Newt.

You people really need to get out more.

Not every single mom with 6 kids is providing the best home for these kids. And as another thread on this site shows, you're the problem for not giving her more.

I'm in the unfortunate business of having a front row seat.

Jail at 16 is the best thing that could happens to many of them.

>My 2-1/2 year old grandson is a lazy son of a bitch! He needs to get a job!

Like Grandma, like Grandson.

That's all on you, Danni.

And it's real life too; reaping what you sow...

You do realize there are industrial cleaning chemicals involved as well, right?

#15 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2011-12-03 11:09 AM

Easy fix, give them a job that does not involve those nasty chemicals until they have been trained in the safe handling of them.

IDIOT

If we make kids work as janitors isn't there a danger that they could become part of Obama's brown shirt young nazis?
You have to think this through.
If jobs are being outsourced to China then why not outsource poor American children to China to compete with the Chinese kids? You have to go where the jobs are.

The only Job an child should have is to go to school, Education is the only way out of poverty. Newt Gingrich is a RACIST PRICK that could only have been invented by the Republican party. This Asshole could have run for President in the 1800's he might have had a chance than, those fucking days are over, BRING IT ON YOU FAT BASTARD!!!!!!!

#22 | Posted by celisary at 2011-12-03 11:18 AM

AH THERE HE IS

where the FUCK have you been shit for brains....
of course saying I missed you is like saying I miss hemoroids....

I was mowing lawns when I was 10 as well. My kids were both working for pay, before they were 14. That still doesn't mean that kindergarteners should be cleaning public toilets.

Where's the distortion? Gingrich said again that he wants poor children to work as janitors at their schools.

Some years ago a talented black teen wrote about what it was like to be put in a separate food line for free-lunch kids at a mostly white suburban school in Dallas. The humiliation stuck with him for years.

#28 | Posted by rcade at 2011-12-03 11

puullease...godfather...

it hints at him wanting children..as in small kids etc....

his point being of course that american children are for many not being brought up with a work ethic as in the past...

his point being of course that american children are for many not being brought up with a work ethic as in the past...

#41 | POSTED BY AFKABL2 AT 2011-12-03 12:16 PM

Exactly, but the lemmings will not see that.

"If jobs are being outsourced to China then why not outsource poor American children to China to compete with the Chinese kids? You have to go where the jobs are."

Now we're talking! And hey, as American citizens we can force them to keep paying payroll taxes to America so we can retire at 65. Brilliant!

his point being of course that american children are for many not being brought up with a work ethic as in the past...

#41 | Posted by afkabl2 The Babbler is speaking for himself, of course, unemployed and posting from a public library

#43 DANNI
Works for me. Who do those kids think they are, GE?

"We have gotten to the point we won't let childern do anything anymore. The kids don't know how to work or have a reason to do anything because they get handed anything they want.
#6 | Posted by Sniper"

Maybe that's true where you live, but not where I live. Kids here mow lawns, move mulch, etc. 14-15 year olds deliver newspapers, and 16 year olds bag groceries. You should turn off the tv, move out of the trailer park, and see the real world some time.

Kids here mow lawns, move mulch, etc. 14-15 year olds deliver newspapers, and 16 year olds bag groceries. You should turn off the tv, move out of the trailer park, and see the real world some time.

#46 | Posted by mOntecOre

When I was growing up, I was helping my 12-year-old neighbor deliver papers, and I was 10 at the time. And we were working in grocery stores at 12 and 13.

Good luck trying that today. A generation ago, people would come in and tell us how proud they were that we had such a great work ethic. Now they would call the Feds in and close the business down. Under ObamaCare, a 26 year old is considered a child. Little wonder you don't see kids half that age contributing to their family's welfare anymore.

Newt is the perfect Representative for the 1%ers...Asking the bottom 30% to sacrifice their childhoods to clean floors for the rest of us seems like common sense to the NEW NEW Newt Gingrich.

How many poor children has this man even met?

Ok Herman is gone - I see it's time to roast Newt now. When you leftwingbloodclots finally decide who you will allow us to run against your messiah mr hussein, kindly let us know. In the meantime we will be constructing plans to make the world a safer and better place.

#49
Newt is self roasting

When you leftwingbloodclots finally decide who you will allow us to run against your messiah mr hussein, kindly let us know.

#49 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2011-12-03 04:49 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
FunnyNewsworthyOffensiveAbusiv
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You may as well run the dog that's rumaging through your trash outside. He'd fit into the GOP lineup nicely.

All this hoohah with debates and primaries but everyone, starting with the GOP, understands that their candidates are jokes already.

"In the meantime we will be constructing plans to make the world a safer and better place."

By deregulating everything and declaring war on everyone! Yay Republicans!

#36 | POSTED BY HAPPYENDING AT 2011-12-03 11:45 AM | REPLY | FLAG:

Took you over an hour to think of that comeback?

You are a real genius.

I miss hemoroids....

#39 | POSTED BY AFKABL2 AT 2011-12-03 12:14 PM | REPLY | FLAG:

So just when did you have the brain tumor removed?

You guys misunderstand Newt. He's using the Lib definition of "child" which goes all the way to 26 years old.

"The bigger question trying to be addressed, which you willfully ignore, is what to do w/ millions of kids who have no work ethic. Especially as the boomers invert the workforce."

That's a really important point. Why doesn't he make it? And talk about all classes in our society. I've met a great many lazy middle class and wealthy types, too. Oh, why doesn't he talk about them? Because he wants them to vote for him. And because they don't suck up our taxes, apparently.
+++++

"You haven't been to a big city in a long time, huh?"

Right, so you just made your agenda clear: put the urban poor to work; leave the other lazy classes alone. Genius.
+++++

"Another brilliant move by Newt."

Bingo. I guess ol' Hap isn't a "small gov't" conservative.
+++++

"When I was growing up, I was helping my 12-year-old neighbor deliver papers, and I was 10 at the time. And we were working in grocery stores at 12 and 13.
Good luck trying that today. "

Is there a single state in this day and age in which kids under 15 can work for money--not under table, but for an actual paycheck? I don't know how paperboys are these days; we don't get the paper, but I've seen adults driving their kids down my street early in the morning, delivering the paper. (That was probably three years ago.)

Seriously, child labor? In America? There are ways to get a work ethic other than going to a paid job and other than being forced into an "internship" with the janitors at school. It's called PARENTING. And if you have a problem with parents, address THAT. And btw, it's not only poor people--and hardly is it all poor people--who have done an utterly shitty job getting a work ethic into their kids. I know some mighty lazy middle-class kids right in my classroom. You gonna force them to clean the school too? How about having leaders who care about the behaviors of all parents of all kids, not just those who (by their perception or otherwise) vote for the other side. The work ethic issue is real, so is young people's inability to create fun on their own, without the structure of school or the local rec dept. You gonna legislate that, too, O Small Government Gurus?

do sheep know they are sheep? I think some sheep actually think they are wolves but they're still really sheep.

probably, but you are a sheep regardless

With apologies to Kirk Douglas:

I'm a sheep.

I'm a sheep.

I'm a sheep, too.

No, I AM A SHEEP.

This isn't the only recent example of a member of the GOP making a suggestion that indicates he wants the third world to be a model for the future United States. But Newt's is the most blatant.

>put the urban poor to work; leave the other lazy classes alone. Genius.

I can't take all the credit, but thanks in part.

Lazy isn't necessarily a bad thing. Lazy pioneers starved by November, for example. Made great motivation for the pioneers to follow, i'll bet.

But when laziness turns into extreme violence, like killing other people because one's bored, then extreme measures are the perfect solution.

Your 'compassion' will just keep feeding the mother w/ 15 kids w/ the type of fuel that screams "someone has to take care of all these children - someone has to take responsibility".

My 'compassion' will give you the right to starve by November. It's your choice.

My 'compassion' will give you the right to starve by November. It's your choice.

#60 | Posted by happyending

We all face choices everyday. They define us. Your type of "compassion" would allow you to turn your head and walk away if you came across a starving family in the wild. Why should you help them? They are stupid and you are clever. So they should die.

Jesus would be so pleased with the cleverness of you.

"Your 'compassion' will just keep feeding the mother w/ 15 kids w/ the type of fuel that screams "someone has to take care of all these children - someone has to take responsibility"."

That's just silly; you're assuming a lot about me, based on very little and not in keeping with anything I've written on this thread.

You, sir, are neither compassionate nor a true conservative. You're just a heartless bastard--or rather, your words suggest that about you. There's a whole lot of room between the extreme position you seem to espouse and the extreme reality that allows for generational welfare. I think we (our government, our society) should inhabit some zone in that space.

The average school has hundreds of students. How is it possible to have them all work every day? How much school would they miss? Where would all the money come from? That's not even mentioning how wrong child labor is. When they're supposed to be getting an education!

Worst. Idea. Ever. Gingrinch doesn't know how to think. And he's the top Republican contender. Wow.

The average school has hundreds of students. How is it possible to have them all work every day?

#63 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2011-12-04 05:36 PM | Reply | Flag

Since they are all fat have them run a treadmill that produces a little electric.
Give them a kilowatt target to produce,no trading allowed.
win/win

rwd

Does Gingrich know that he's running for president? Bringing back child labor hasn't been an argument made by a politician in this country in 100 years.

#5 | Posted by rcade at 2011-12-03 10:46 AM |

Indeed. Why give those jobs to black and white inner city youth when e illegal mexicans will do it. Better they just sit on the porch, smoke a blunt and eventually bust a cap in someones ass.

Illegals do a lot of the work that used to be done by teenagers as recently as just 30 years ago.

You libs are funny and usually young with little life experience.

You make your money off them R cade. How do you sleep at night knowing the scam you're pulling on them?

Illegals do a lot of the work that used to be done by teenagers as recently as just 30 years ago.

The elderly are taking the work the teens used to do as far as I can see.Teens don't pick tomatoes or butcher livestock or dig ditches.
They used to work at restuarants and fast food places or markets.

Jesus would be so pleased with the cleverness of you.

#61 | Posted by donnerboy at 2011-12-04 01:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

Since they are all fat have them run a treadmill that produces a little electric.
Give them a kilowatt target to produce,no trading allowed.
win/win

rwd

#64 | Posted by rightwingdon at 2011-12-04 05:43 PM |

You should run that by queen Michelle's staff. It just might be the best answer to her war on fat kids and adults.

reason #14 Gingrich isn't electable: bloated baboon babbling bullshit

Washboard:
we ran it by Laura Bush. Her response:
STFU, and give me another cigarette! And while you're at it, my Wellbutrin is right on the table; bring one of those with a Diet Coke.

My tenants sell their EBT cards for cash - $.50 to the dollar.

Then buy Chocolate wraps for their blunts but they buy the shitty weed cause we only put such a small monthly amount on their cards. I'm hoping we put even more on their cards - 50% markup isn't too bad for a hard days work at fraud.

I used to ask my tenants kids to help w/ minor work - pick up condoms and beer cans in the yards that they put there. They wouldn't do anything unless I paid them. So they'd get paid with the profits from the EBT fraud. Which their parents gave away for $.50 on the dollar.

Gotta love the vicious cycle...

#2 | Posted by happyending at 2011-12-03 10:24 AM | Reply | Flag:

^^^
Complains about Govt spending all while happily accepting HUD checks.

Is your whole existence defined by what other people think?

#26 | Posted by happyending at 2011-12-03 11:26 AM | Reply | Flag: Flag:

When you're running for the highest office in the land, it certainly should be something you consider.