ext_306469 ([identity profile] paft.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2011-12-14 01:44 am (UTC)

“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.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/gingrich-says-poor-children-have-no-work-ethic/

g: So if some liberal suggested the exact same program, but used terms that made it obvious that it was copying the spirit of the Japanese system, would you still oppose it, on the basis of child labor?

As I have already pointed out, Gingrich's proposal is not"copying the spirit of the Japanese system."

If anyone, liberal or conservative, proposed a day when everyone at the school pitched in to do some cleaning, I'd have no problem with it.

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