Rodney~~~~ other than saying racist 5 tomes in 3
sentences, what did mean to say?

children living in poverty in the US are [retty much
evenly divided between

hispanics
non-hispanic whites
blacks

(in that order)

At that age the only thing that can govern the wealth of kids is inheritance.  The nasty “I” word that the media never seems to mention anymore.  Nasty, deep, and darkest secret in the U.S. is how much of the wealth is inherited?  85%?  95%?

diamond~~~~the Japanese who can afford it are good to their children and the
Japanese are still hated throughout Asia for the callousness with which they raped
and killed other people’s children….The Chinese and the Koreans and the Filipinos
remember.

Compare that Zinn thing about 1903 with the practice of the poor at that time in
Japan of selling daughters

“The Japanese for a very limited understanding of what you would call democracy.”

Maybe so but the Japanese are famous the world over for how they care for and protect their children. America as a society, on the other hand, is infamous for not doing either. Remember how George W. Bush wouldn’t allow legislation that would have guaranteed health care for American children? There’s a long history of such brutal indifference to children’s needs in America.

‘In the spring of 1903 I went to Kensington, Pennsylvania, where 75,000 textile workers were on strike. Of this number at least 10,000 were little children…Everyday little children came into Union headquarters, some with their hands off, some with their thumb missing, some with their fingers off at the knuckle’ (From ‘A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn).

Ah, the good old days. The days Newt is hankerin’ to get back to. Newt Gingrich is a fascist as are most of the movers and shakers in the Republican Party. I just thought you might want to know. Newt and his colleagues are bogged down in a Hobbesian philosophy that says the poor are sinners and must be punished for being poor. The flip side of this is that the rich are virtuous, righteous and blessed by God, even when they’re Dick Cheney. Gag reflex setting in. I’m sure you can see where this leads. Poor kids mopping the halls of their schools, for example. Can’t you just imagine the hell their lives would be if they had to do that and the mockery and disgrace they would endure? Clearly Bighead has a very little brain inside that giant skull of his.

Queenie``` “Never worked a day in his life. “

that rumor going around that Gingrich worked as a teacher for six or seven years
before working in Congress isn’t true?

or do you regard college teachers as unemployed?

This is bullshit Newt style. Throw something out there and see if it sticks then sit back and chuckle at those who took the bait. The man is a parasite. Never worked a day in his life. Always on the government tit or running for office and misusing campaign cash.

He was always the butt of jokes in school - fat and ugly, an easy target to hit. A psychopath who has been plotting revenge his whole lifetime.

felicity,
dhorsen - if you’re right, the Japanese seem to have
a better understanding of democracy than Americans. ——

felicity, just for the record…..that’s a terrible misunderstanding.

The Japanese for a very limited understanding of what you would call democracy.

The japanese are STILL fiercely xenophobic and racist…and well, perhaps you
should look up “Burakumin” and see for yourself.

Having all of the kids clean the school would seem like both a good team building exercise and good learning for kids of all social classes - wealthy kids would benefit from learning about what it’s like to do blue-collar jobs, and kids from neighborhoods with high employment would have an opportunity to work.

Unfortunately, the way in which the idea was presented by Newt seems divisive and unlikely to lead to a positive outcome.

dhorsen - if you’re right, the Japanese seem to have
a better understanding of democracy than Americans. 
Singling out a particular group, at the exclusion of
other groups, and requiring them to, in this case, do
janitorial work in their schools not only flies in
the face of what democracy is about, it’s
unconstitutional.

Take Arizona which has decided that people who “look
like aliens” can be pulled over and made to show
proof of citizenship.  Wrong.  Everybody must be
pulled over and required to show proof of
citizenship.

Slightly different but consistent with the on-the-
fast-track-to-killing-our-democracy is the SC ruling
that corporations have personhood.  Fine.  So GE is a
person, then GE (if a citizen?) has a right to vote. 
I look forward to a, say, washing machine registering
to vote followed by a trip to the polling place and
pulling the lever of choice.

Newt is an ass and a lier! As a liberal my reaction is just what Newt works very hard to foster and receive from all Liberals, the more animated the liberal reaction is to Newt, the more successful Newt sees himself!

From what I have herd, Newt was the most divisive politician of his time, (he may be a panty waste in today’s Congress) Newt apparently loves to polarize people, so he is like the ass hole relative who upsets everyone at the family Xmas gathering,  his manipulation song and dance routine seems to have worked for Newt. I suspect Newt is just warming up, testying the waters sort of speak with his child labor crap, though other Repulcians have also wanted to eliminate child labor laws!(Governor of Maine?)

What seems to be happening with the Repulcians, they over reach, way over reach on purpose and come may back a little, so the Democrats end up further to the right at the end of the day! Until recently it has worked for them, but now with the Occupy the world Movement and Wisconsin recalls and Ohio even Mississippi voters are calling bought and sold Republicans on their blatant over reaching, maybe the NEWT animosity tide has changed?