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Des Moines, Iowa — Responding to controversial comments he made about
child labor in late November at Harvard University, Newt Gingrich today
told a crowd in Des Moines, Iowa, that children in poor neighborhoods have
“no habits of working and nobody around them who works.”

Gingrich was asked by an audience member to clarify the comments he made
last month in which he called the current child labor laws ”stupid” and
would replace janitors with schoolchildren to work in the community school.

“They have no habit of showing up on Monday and staying all day or the
concept of ’I do this and you give me cash,’ unless it’s illegal,”
Gingrich said.

Gingrich said that successful people he knows started work early by doing
small jobs like babysitting and shoveling snow.

“You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to
go to school. They have no money, no habit of work,” Gingrich said. “What
if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the
assistant librarian? And let me get into the janitor thing. What if they
became assistant janitors, and their job was to mop the floor and clean the
bathroom?”

Gingrich talked about a program around while he was in Congress called
“Earning While Learning,” which paid students to read books. He said it was
the same concept of students gaining money for doing acedemic work that he
would like to see students to invest in.

“They wanted the money. The kids were showing up saying, ‘I demand you let
me read. You can’t keep me from this program,” Gingrich said.

Gingrich said there would be a lot of details to work out, but the general
principle was “exactly the right direction for America’s future.

“If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness,
that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and
I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the
cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest
money,” Gingrich said.

Gingrich speaks at the Polk County GOP dinner tonight and campaigns in New
York on Saturday.


On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:14 PM, <tedkaufman@comcast.net> wrote:

> I do not think they are crazy - they just do not want to vote for Romney
>
> Here is a great DNC Romney flip flop video -
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9njHHyRI7g
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Eric Schwerin" <eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com>
> *To: *tedkaufman@comcast.net
> *Cc: *"beau biden" <261penn@gmail.com>, "hunter biden" <
> hbiden@senecaga.com>, "Alex Snyder-Mackler" <smacklera@gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, December 1, 2011 5:01:57 PM
> *Subject: *Re: Gingrich
>
>
> Great video - but I feel like the flip flop charge s much more devastating
> a charge against Romney than Gingrich. Not sure why, but I think because
> for Romney it so obviously seems that his flip flops are as a result of
> political expediency. For Gingrich he has created an image however flawed
> as a "thinker" and I think people explain away his flips flops more easily
> as a result of some intellectual change and can deal with that more easily
> than Romney who is acting as a pure politician. Just my thoughts - but I
> have no idea what the GOP primary electorate really thinks. They're crazy.
>
>
> Eric D. Schwerin
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> *P** **Consider the environment before printing this email.*
>
> On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:48 PM, tedkaufman@comcast.net wrote:
>
>
>
> You have to see this
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWKTOCP45zY
>
> Today's polls
>
> FLORIDA: GOP PRIMARY*
>
> Gingrich 47%
> Romney 17%
> Cain 15%
> Paul 5%
> Bachmann 4%
> Huntsman 3%
> Perry 2%
> Santorum 1%
>
> MONTANA: GOP PRIMARY**
>
> Gingrich 37%
> Paul 12%
> Romney 11%
> Cain 10%
> Bachmann 10%
> Perry 5%
> Huntsman 3%
> Santorum 1%
>
>


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