{"id":9713,"date":"2011-11-22T23:05:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T23:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=9713"},"modified":"2011-11-22T23:05:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T23:05:43","slug":"editorial-newt-gingrichs-child-labor-plan-cleans-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2011\/11\/editorial-newt-gingrichs-child-labor-plan-cleans-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Newt Gingrich&#8217;s child labor plan cleans up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/newt-gingrich-007.jpg\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9714\" title=\"Newt-Gingrich-007\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/newt-gingrich-007.jpg?resize=460%2C276\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>Fire janitors so that school kids can learn the joy of a worthwhile job? Wow, the guy&#8217;s a one-man, walking thinktank!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Who doesn&#8217;t love Newt Gingrich&#8217;s idea to fire school janitors and replace them with actual school children? I mean, besides janitors and school children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">If the world had listened to Newt Gingrich 30 years ago, there would be no Freddy Krueger! Countless Scooby Doo villains would be forced pull off their masks in in private, with less drama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Newt argues that union policies and child labor laws \u2013 the only things standing between our schools and a &#8220;Newsies&#8221;-style takeover of our schools \u2013 are &#8220;crippling&#8221; children, apparently unaware that prior to the implementation of child labor laws, many children were crippled by their laboring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I think my favorite insight, though, is his deduction that it&#8217;s in &#8220;the poorest neighborhoods&#8221; where we see the truly &#8220;tragic&#8221; results of not allowing kids to get jobs, because they then miss out on &#8220;the whole process of making work worthwhile&#8221;. This seems not to be a problem in the non-poorest neighborhoods \u2013 mostly because everyone works for their dad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Lauding the ethic that working for a living instills, Gingrich told his audience at Harvard (who, presumably, already know that &#8220;work is worthwhile&#8221; \u2013 even though they were sitting in a political lecture on a weekday afternoon) that it was important for them to &#8220;[g]et any job that teaches you to show up on Monday&#8221;, and &#8220;Get any job that teaches you to stay all day even if you&#8217;re having a fight with your girlfriend.&#8221; Like, say, Speaker of the House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/ana-marie-cox-blog\/2011\/nov\/22\/newt-gingrich-child-labor-plan-cleans-up?newsfeed=true\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Source.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire janitors so that school kids can learn the joy of a worthwhile job? Wow, the guy&#8217;s a one-man, walking thinktank! Who doesn&#8217;t love Newt..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[229,347],"class_list":["post-9713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-labor","tag-economic-exploitation","tag-workers-struggle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Newt-Gingrich-007_9713_9e46d.jpg?fit=460%2C276&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}