Newt Gingrich: Child Labor Laws Are 'Stupid'

Learning life skills and developing a work ethic will help them succeed later on in life. Just one of many common sense concepts that the left considers anathema.

 

Invalid transition, if you do not understand that, then yes, do your homework.

If you do not understand the background for the enactment of child labor laws, yes, go do your homework.

Maybe if the Right did their homework they would have an understanding of what Gingrich said is not practicle. But I guess I would asking too much from the right.

 

And that should be. Child explotation no thanks.

As I've said. Conservative would like a lot to go back to the XIX Century.

 

Going to school, doing your homework and doing your best is also a work ethic.

 

And they can still do this.

 

What do you tell your children, Brewskier?

Do you tell them their job is to work hard and make good grades?

 

Work ethic? What is that? Work and work and don't have live? That kind of ethic? Thanks, but no.

If someday someone approves the child labour, I will fight with everything. Even with arms. No to the slavery. Many people died during the XIX Century and the XX to abolish that, and I don't want to recover this.

 

Tell you what. You can let your kids sit around playing video games all summer. Mine will be out detasseling corn.

When your kids end up living with you into their thirties we can all have a good laugh.

As an added bonus, my kids will have the life skills to put themselves through school while holding a job, as my wife and I both did, while maintaining a high gpa and won't need to sit in a disease ridden OWS camp for months begging for their student debt to be forgiven.

 

Ok. I want that my children, if someday I have, have better life than me. Not worse. That the world that they live be better than the mine. I will fight for that.

And children don't have to pay their education. That is what pretends Gingrich, and even worse. He pretends that poor people go to work instead of get educated. That is horrible. That is go back 200 years ago. And I don't want to do that.

Children when they are young, mainly in the age that Gingrich mentions that are around 9 years old must play, and enjoy their lifes not work, and less to survive.

I can teach my children to earn things. To take care of what is important, to have responsibilities... But not work as the right is pretending.

 

Brewskier:

 

What are you talking about? No one is suggesting that children go to work instead of going to k-12. That's ridiculous.

The problem is, labor laws prevent kids from having summer jobs or after school jobs.

And having a job is part of a child's education. Not working leaves young adults woefully unprepared for the real world. Not pushing your children to work is akin to not teaching them to read.

 

1) Children are already allowed to get afterschool jobs such as a paper route. Of course, even this job would be unsuitable for children under ten. In most states, by the time you are 15 or 16 you are eligible to work part time. Of course these kids now have to compete with elderly and disabled people who can't survive on their meager benefits, so there is increased competition.

2) Why would anyone hire a young child over an adult as a janitor? The premise is idiotic. A child isn't even tall enough to change a light bulb. In addition, the job would be hazardous because the children would be working with toxic cleaning agents.
I suppose there will be no liability toward the child if he or she goes to reach a jug of bleach and it splashes in his or her eyes? Or if he or she slips on wet stairs and dies after mopping? How about if the child doesn't know any better and mixes bleach and ammonia?

3) The parent can always give a child work to do for money. It's called an allowance.


No, the unions fought too hard in this country to establish such laws, because they protect children. These republicans are going too far. First they take this away, then they eliminate overtime, then they eliminate workers comp. Next thing a 5 year old working in a sweatshop has no recourse for losing her hand and she is tossed out in the street to starve.

This is the conservative endgame: erase every aspect of worker's rights one right at a time.

 

Probably but are fools that still revere something as stupid as a monarchy that treated them like slaves sane? They should have been eliminated many years ago......seriously.

 

I really think Newt says things like this to derail himself from actually having to become the leading candidate and thus spending all his campaign money. He is not a real candidate.

No one serious would say something like this.

 

Psst, he is now the front runner as of today. That's OK we all have our opinions, I don't think Dumbo is really human.

 

Gingrich did. He suggested that.

 

Please, point to one person in this thread that says clearly that that is what they want. I really want to (*)(*)(*)(*)ing know.

This thread is getting on my nerves, no one wants child slavery. All we want is the option for children to opt for a limited summer/after school job if they want to. Keyword: Limited, in case you failed in reading comprehension.

 

Oh balderdash.. Does Newt have any children?

The JOB of children is first and foremost to study not flip burgers.

 

Agreed. However, if they can balance both, why not let them have it. The requirement for good grades is a requirement to have a part time job under 16 in some if not all states.

 

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It takes perseverance, patience and intellignce to win an election to become president. That is how you get the American voters to put you in office. It takes close to genius to do it.

btw: I think that "Dumbo" is an unfair evaluation of Gingrich...he is a slimy politican, a real 'Honest to God' sociopath, who is often out in the clinical stratosphere of mind-blowing self destruction but equates it with 'saying and doing dumb things'...that if he can control those episodes he would be a good president. But alcoholics always say and do dumb things. And: if Gingrich becomes president, what do we call his wife...Third Lady?

 

Well... Newt has a long history of shooting himself in the foot. Does he have any children from any of his three marriages ??

 

Under 16 play and study that is your job.

 

Why?

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My 12 yr old is begging to work, and he would do great at it. I'm stuck paying him allowance for menial tasks cavemen could do.

 

Like I already said, it would be voluntary. Besides, I know that if I was still a kid, I'd love a part time job so I can pay for all these god(*)(*)(*)(*) expensive games.

 

Newt isn't saying that kids should be FORCED to work, he's saying that they should be ALLOWED to work in certain cases.

And I think he's right. Especially if it might make the difference between a kid working a bit and staying in school because there's money available now, and more self-esteem available now, and there's a possibility he's not roaming the streets with negative influences now since he's working...and quitting school which such a job might have avoided.