habit of working. we ll talk about that in just a moment. but gingrich has some other targets like child labor laws and unions. it is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, in trapping children first of all in child laws which are truly stupid. most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. newt, why didn t you say that today when talking about the aparenti? let s turn to dr. peterson. associate director of language at lehigh university. and with us, ari melber for the nation magazine. i had a discussion with my listeners on the radio about this. most, especially in the progressive community, are appalled by this. let s start with poor kids have no work ethic. dr. peterson, i need your response to that. oh, boy.
recipients should be taken away from them and shipped to orph orphana orphanages. why do you say something like that in politics? do you think that s an actual policy that you plan on spinning out and implementing across the country? or is this just being provocative for political sake? this is a deliberate strategy. it s a strategy to bait liberals and to seem unpc and tough to conservatives. it s why last month newt gingrich proposed the 9-year-olds should be janitors and why gingrich is doubling down on the janitors idea in front of conservative audiences whenever he can. we should contemplate very seriously that the poorest children in the poorest neighborhoods ought to actually have part-time jobs in the schools they have to go to. the trap, gingrich wants to trap the poor as janitors. then i was told janitors do really dangerous, hard work. well, the master janitor probably aught to do the dangerous, hard work, but i will
they are saying, gingrich wants to trap the poor as janitors. then i was told janitors do really dangerous, hard work. well, the master janitor probably aught to do the dangerous, hard work, but i will tell you personally, i believe the kids could mop the floor and clean out the bathroom and get paid for it and it would be okay. yay, the republican audience loves it and simultaneously cue the liberal outrage. we need that, too. notice how he puts that in there, right? i was promptly attacked. badge of honor. eat the poor strategy is the same thing behind newt gingrich s delicate language around the occupy wall street movement itself, right now. all the occupy movement starts with the premise that we owe them everything. you need to reassert something as simple as saying to them, go get a job, right after you take a bath. take a bath, that s hysterical. yay. cue the liberal outrage.
certainly republicans and voters in general don t trust obama a lot on the economy. so it s your bread and butter to keep ham emering away on that stuff. he brags, as he has, about getting $60,000 for an hour-long speech and yet he s also talking repeatedly about putting little kids to work. we ll play that. again, he talked about it yesterday. he wants to trap the poor as janitors. the master janitor probably ought to do the dangerous hard work. but i will tell you personally, i believe the kids could mop the floor and clean out the bathroom and get paid for it and it would be okay. he s been talking about the poorest of the poor kids, as you know, nate, and what he said yesterday was they don t know what it is to work. so we need to teach them that.
stupid. okay, you say to somebody, you shouldn t go to work before you re, what, 14, 16 years of age, fine. you re totally poor. you re in a school that s failing, with a teacher that s failing, i tried for years to have a very simple model. most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. the kids would actually do work. they would have cash. they d have pride in the schools. they d begin the process of rising. and, of course, that caught the attention of the biggest union in the country that represents janitors, american federation of state, county and municipal employees.รง they rewrote gingrich s vision of an army of children janitors pulling themselves up by their janitor boot straps in this video. most of the schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitor, have one master janitor and pay the children to take care of the schools. it s a hard knock life for us