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Newt favors putting (poor) children to work in paid jobs at the schools they attend “as early as is reasonable and practical.”

At a party fundraising dinner in the Des Moines suburbs, the former House speaker launched into a defense of his proposal to teach the nation’s poorest children the connection between “showing up” and earning money — by putting them to work in their schools in the country’s poorest neighborhoods.

“I believe the kids could mop the floor and clean up the bathroom and get paid for it, and it would be OK,” he said to applause.

Gingrich said, mockingly, that those on the left would oppose his idea because it might prompt the children to earn more money and eventually escape poverty, “and then who would rich liberals worry about?”

[...] “Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and nobody around them who works,” Gingrich replied. “So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash,’ unless it’s illegal.” **

You see, really rich kids work harder than poor kids right from birth, what with their inheritances and capital gains and tax cuts and such. Poor kids lie around their cribs all day, wanting milk and diaper changes, making no profits — seriously, zero profits.

NEWT GINGRICH’S AMERICA: a proud, child laboring, third-world plutocracy. Enjoy your NASCAR and vote GOP!

** Yep, this also applies to the poor white kids in places like Wasilla, the meth capital of Alaska.