BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Newt Gingrich, who recently admitted that his own childhood was comfortable, seems to have a problem with youth – poor youth, that is. Back in 1994, the Gingrich master plan to shrink the welfare rolls was to ship the children of the poor off to orphanages. He told a Harvard audience not so long ago that child labor laws are “truly stupid,” and schools should fire janitors and replace them with poor […]

Suffer The Little Children
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