[Vision2020] Newt's work plan for poor kids

[Rosemary Huskey]

Maybe not a heartless bastard, just a pompous, self-entitled jackass.  What
makes Newt think that poor kids can't learn office skills or be trained to
be assistance librarians?    Let me help you to understand, Gary.  That
pathetic serial adulterer, hypocritical, ethically challenged little twerp's
message decoded (i.e. translated for those who have never lived in the
South) simply means black kids are great with mops, buckets, and toilet bowl
brushes, but office work, not so much.  That said, I have two other
observations to make about Newt.  The first is courtesy of Paul Klugman
"he's (Newt) a stupid man's idea of what a smart person sounds like."  And
the second, which probably reflects the positions of many Progressive
voters, if the Republicans are silly enough to "overlook" the baggage Newt
brings to the party, Democrats will be dancing in the streets.

And, by the way, I am a great believer in the notion that kids rich or poor
(from their middle teens on) should be happy to pick up some part-time work,
which will help them gain a sense of purpose and responsibility, financial
management skills, and a boost in deservedly earned self-esteem.  I worked
30 hours a week from my 16th birthday until I graduated from high school.
But, guess what, nobody ever suggested that the only skill I might have, or
the only work I might be fit to do was clean the bathrooms at Moscow High
School.

Rose Huskey

 

 

 

 

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Gary Crabtree
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 7:51 PM
To: Tom Hansen; Moscow Vision 2020
Cc: Penni Cyr
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?

 

Sounds as though the man is putting forward the radical conservative concept
of "the part time, after school job." What a heartless bastard.

 

g

 

From: Tom Hansen <mailto:thansen at moscow.com>  

Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:07 PM

To: Moscow Vision 2020 <mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com>  

Cc: Penni Cyr <mailto:cpenni at gmail.com>  

Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?

 

"A very poor neighborhood. You have kids that who are under law required to
go to school. They have no money. They have no habit of work. What if you
paid them part-time in the afternoon to sit in the clerical office, and
greet people when they came in? What if you paid them to work as an
assistant librarian?  





Let me get down to the janitor thing, and these letters are written that
janitorial work is really hard and really dangerous and this and that.
Fine.  So what if they became assistant janitors and their job was to mop
the floor and clean the bathroom. And you pay them."





- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (December 1, 2011)







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gsc9ElmJEs

 

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

"If not us, who?

If not now, when?"

 

- Unknown

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