““Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works,” the former House speaker said at a campaign event at the Nationwide Insurance offices. “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.””
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Newt Gingrich: Poor kids don’t work “unless it’s illegal” - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
I just…I can’t…what? Does he even realize that nearly a quarter of the American labor force lives in poverty? Close to a third are “low income”? Has this man ever visited reality?