"It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods,
entrapping children in, first of all, child laws, which are
truly stupid," said the former House speaker Friday at the
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. "Most of these schools
ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master
janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. The
kids would actually do work, they would have cash, they would
have pride in the schools, they'd begin the process of rising."
Newt Gingrich considers himself to be a "historian," which
dictionary.com says means "an expert in history; authority on
history." And history is, in turn, "the branch of knowledge
dealing with past events." Perhaps Gingrich really is an expert
on past events, in that he knows that they happened, and even
perhaps what happened. For example, he is likely aware of the
horrific abuse of children in the past, before there were "truly
stupid" laws governing how and when children could work. He is
probably not so aware of widespread prob