Gingrich's Janitor Comment Should Help Obama

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What's wrong with being a janitor? It is a necessary job that teaches responsibility and skills. If a person tries the job and doesn't like it, he should stay in school and learn to do somethings else. That's all Newt was trying to say. Only someone who looks down on janitors would take it as an insult.

desphs of 4:41PM January 23, 2012

Hey Zogby.. Yea Sure the Millions of Union Janitors have a Voting Block ??? There are 100,000 Taxpayers who Fund the Overpriced Union Janitors to every 1 Janitor!!! Are You Sure You did your Homework here?? The Idea was to give kids a Job so they learn a work ethic and have a reason to stay in school ! Only Union janitors and the DNC want Everyone to think that means Firing Every Janitor and replacing them with 10 Kids!! Well and YOU..Do They Pay YOU Too??

John Poland of NY 1:34PM January 23, 2012

It is idiotic. Most of the High Schoolers in our area work a few hours after school...and most of the families are poor. The very notion that poor people have no ethics at all is ridiculous....THEY are the ones whoi work the hardest.
Here is where Newt will take us :
http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html

Barb B of IN 5:57PM January 22, 2012

One of the jobs that could not be out sourced to China, Newt and the Republicans now want to out source to child labor. Why is it class war when it comes to increased taxes on the millionaires and not class war when it comes to firing lower middle class workers?

Jim Mannie of NY 6:43AM January 21, 2012

Please, Gingrich's own daughter made extra money working as a janitor for her church. The media twists every comment into a racial thing. Newt does have credibility issues. His minuses far our weigh his pluses when his total career is reviewed. Hypocrisy is not the sole purview of the extreme left or right. The problem is voters who overlook it. I am voting for Romney. I trust his integrity and economic ability. He is rich, but earned it himself and knows how to help encourage business growth and prosperity. I hear attacks on his integrity, with no fact to back it up..He has lived a pretty clean life and I have been watching for many years.

Connie Davis of CA 6:07PM January 20, 2012