Thursday, January 19, 2012

Question/Debate of the Day: What Happens to the 3 Janitors?

In the raucous Monday night GOP debate in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich laid out an idea for encouraging the poor minority youth of this nation to discover the joys of employment.

"You could take one janitor and hire 30-some kids to work in the school for the price of one janitor," Gingrich said. "And those 30 kids would be a lot less likely to drop out. They would actually have money in their pocket."

Later in Sean Hannity's spin room, Gingrich expanded on his idea:

HANNITY: What does it mean if you suggest that it's good for people to get a job -- and you talked about how much janitors in New York make. They do make a pretty astronomical amount of money. What is it --

GINGRICH: You can hire 30 young people part-time for one janitor. So you take a school that has four or five janitors, keep the top two, take the bottom three. You now have 90 kids who have an incentive to not drop out. They have to go to -- they have to go to school to get -- have their little job. Their little job gives them cash. They have pride in what they're doing. They begin to have pride in the school. They'll learn the work ethic. It's just a win-win strategy.

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Sounds like a great idea, unless you are one of the 3 janitors.

Presumably these janitors who are getting paid these astronomical salaries are adults and heads of households.

My questions to the group is....What happens to the 3 janitors and their families?

Are there other equally salaried jobs they could find to keep their lives intact?

Or should they go on Unemployment and through Professor Gingrich Re-Education/Job Training camps?


(Maybe he's really not the smartest guy on the stage.)

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice, Doug!

Terrye said...

That is a good point...but it also worth noting that this is not going to happen. Newt knows it..he is just running his mouth, coming up with some silly scheme to please the base.

It is also worth noting that 74% of the people in this country who are on some kind of government support are actually white...so maybe Gingrich should start lecturing white people on their lack of a work ethic..but somehow I doubt if he would get a standing ovation for that.

Klong258 said...

So I whent to school to be an accountant I alway have a job good field pick. I paid back my student loans. Now I pay for my kids education. Ok great. Then Newt fires the janator paid by my taxes we pay him 99 weeks pay for his college get the 30 kids jobs and educated again on my dime. Next they compete with my kid for the new jobs. WTF is tha

Klong258 said...

So I whent to school to be an accountant I alway have a job good field pick. I paid back my student loans. Now I pay for my kids education. Ok great. Then Newt fires the janator paid by my taxes we pay him 99 weeks pay for his college get the 30 kids jobs and educated again on my dime. Next they compete with my kid for the new jobs. WTF is tha

Klong258 said...

Why is Newt getting a pass on this

KelleyGurl said...

I wondered the same thing. Thanks for addressing this very important issue. We shouldn't be replacing anyone with children to do the work. Children shouldn't be working. Period. There are age requirements in place to protect the children from getting used. Too many things could go wrong, we have seen other countries take advantage their children. That's why there are labor laws in place.

Anonymous said...

The idea is insulting and and idiotic.

My family was insanely poor while I was growing up. The last thing I wanted to do after a long day of study, and being ridiculed for my patchy clothes, was to put on a pair of coveralls and clean the messes my class mates made.

We're poor but we still have pride. After school I worked as a dishwasher at a local cafe and I didn't need the school system to hand me a job out of pity.

Screw you Gingrich.