Children Plotting to Steal Our Jubs! They are Taking Our Jubs!!

[evildevil]

For the Price of a Cup of Coffee, You too Can Have Your Own Personal Child Laborer for a Day.

Gingrich Calls Child Labor Laws ‘Stupid’, Wants To Replace Janitors With Poor Kids

In an anti-government diatribe that would be funny if he weren’t serious, GOP presidential candidate New Gingrich told a crowd at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

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[celtic_thistle]

...wow. Yes, schools in this country are failures because the janitors are unionized. Seriously, what? And of course shitmuppets like Newt would LOVE to see child labor laws repealed--that way they could somehow establish an even lower minimum wage for 12-year-olds to do menial tasks. THAT is somehow supposed to "solve" poverty? I can't even.

[roseofjuly]

Shitmuppet is like my new favorite word, thanks.

[erunamiryene]

[ohloverx]

These photos make me so incredibly sad. I can't believe the surge in "repeal child labor laws" that we've been hearing lately. These people have learned nothing. Nothing. Between this and the way that birth control and abortion rights are being chipped away at, I don't know why anyone would want to have a child right now. I know my fiance and I have tabled the discussion for a revisit in 8 or 10 years. I'm too afraid of what kind of world they'd be born into with the shit these asshats are trying to do.

[erunamiryene]

i have three (a son and two daughters), and they're the main reason I'm looking to get the hell out of here. i don't want them growing up in a country like this one's becoming.

[romp]

Our kids were a big reason we left the US. It was hard to get out and we were lucky. Good luck to you!

[jasonbeast]

Really funny. Let's hope he's also unelectable.

[gr_julian]

I used to think he was, thanks in part to his lovely marital history.

But it doesn't seem that even a minimum modicum of "don't be a fucking asshole" is required to be considered seriously in politics.

[jasonbeast]

Not lately, no.

[sasha_davidovna]

Yeah, this. I've always thought that child labor laws are overly strict, but returning to the days when kids were essentially slave labor is not the kind of reform I have in mind!

[tmlforsyth]

I went to a private HS and a number of students would do jobs like that under a program called work study. I did work study when I went to College, and I think such a program can be great for many things, including building esteem, establishing job history, and making students more involved in their school.

I'd like to believe that this is what Newt means. I think giving younger kids tasks that will not hurt their education or themselves would be great, and I don't believe child labor laws were done for entirely altruistic reasons.

[livetuned]

We do that here, but it's not really "hiring", we get volunteer hours for helping out.

[beoweasel]

“Core policies of protecting unionization and bureaucratization against children in the poorest neighborhoods, crippling them by putting them in schools that fail has done more to create income inequality in the United States than any other single policy."

Yes, damn that stupid law! How dare it keep us from exploiting poor children, and using them as cheap, expendable labor!

Between this, and Santorum wanting to get rid of government assistance, and saying, "Suffering is a part of life, it isn't a bad thing and that it's essential." I'm not sure I can get any angrier.

Seriously, these people want us to return to the late 1800's, and holy shit, that is frightening.

[wemblee]

I used to think Republicans just wanted to turn the clock back to the '50s! I guess I wasn't ~dreaming big enough.~

[replyhazy]

1850s!