Freddie Mac's $30K-per-hour grifter holds forth on the work ethic of the Poors

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Newt: Poor Children Have "No Habits of Working"
by Nick Kalman | December 01, 2011

GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich defended his stance against certain child labor laws during a campaign stop in Iowa Thursday, saying that children born into poverty aren't accustomed to working unless it involves crime.

"Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have

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[lisasimpsonfan]

Such bullshit. Every person born into poverty, lord I hate that phrase, knows all too well what it's like to work. They see right from birth how hard Mom, Dad or whoever they live with has to bust their ass to keep the family together. Poor people do nothing but work. They don't take vacations like middle class people do. They don't work 8 hour days and then go home to dinner, they work 8 hours days then go home throw together dinner and then go to their next job. Poor people don't spent the weekends on the golf course or shopping in the mall, they spend their weekend working or trying to find a little time to connect with their children and partners.

NO people born into poverty, still hating that BTW, go into crime because they see how god awful being poor is and how it grinds you down day after day doing nothing but work but still somehow falling deeper and deeper down the poverty pit. F U Newt.

[lone_concertina]

That, or they can't afford things they need so they steal them.

This this this. I had to shoplift groceries for a couple of months when my roommate and I both lost our job and were denied unemployment for not reason. It ain't fun but it's either that or going hungry and tbh I'd rather eat.

[bestdaywelived]

Yep. I used to steal food from the restaurants I worked at because I couldn't afford groceries beyond bread and peanut butter.

[nothingmuch]

<3 thank you for saying it so much better than I could.

[poetic_pixie_13]

Fucking thank you.

[roseofjuly]

This...I wasn't born into poverty but I was born working-class, and I watched my parents work two jobs to make it all work. We only went places we could drive and only once a year or so. And in my family, you worked till you died. You worked when you were sick, you worked when you were in pain, you worked when your mom died, you worked past 65 and 75 if you lived that long...which we don't. Retirement was...what's that? I didn't find out what "on salary" meant or that some people don't get paid hourly until I was in college. It's even worse for people in poverty, because they're working just as hard and they still don't make enough to make ends meet.

I don't understand how Gingrich thinks poor people don't work. Who does he think cleans his office, serves him food at a restaurant, picks his vegetables? They aren't making $30K an hour to do that. Most of them aren't even making $30K a year.