Charles Blow has written another op-ed about the war on children. This is a must-read for anyone who cares about our country's children. The statements by Gingrich quoted in Charles Blow's article are almost unimaginable - except that they come from a person who is willing to win votes by exploiting the most vulnerable among us.
Here is the link: http://www.nytimes.com/...
I highly recommend reading the entire article. He is a brilliant and inspiring writer.
Here is a paragraph that basically left me stunned:
On Thursday, at a campaign stop in Iowa, the former House speaker said, “Start with the following two facts: Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. 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.” (His second “fact” was that every first generational person he knew started work early.)
Gingrich's complete ignorance of the situation of children in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods is stunning. He's like the King in Camelot looking out from his castle and asking: "Oh what do the simple folk do?" Leaving aside the fact that he is simply wrong about the lives of those children he wants to send to work, he is so mean it's hard to believe anyone could stand to listen to him.
Is this where we've come?