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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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.
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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.
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Of course, the poor kids aren't REALLY at my school - Columbia brags about their financial aid packages about something like 40-50% of the students here are full-pay, which means their parents can pay the full cost of attendance. The CoA is About $50-60K a year. And even parents with six-figure salaries get financial assistance here, so by full pay we're talking about families that make nearly $200K and up.
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If there good paying jobs available everywhere, people wouldn't have to find illegal ways to make a living.
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