Digging for gold, children work in harsh conditions, paid with bags of dirt

No child advocate says that Newt Gingrich's orphanage proposals have merit!!

Are you kidding me?

maybe you should look beyond the narrow scope of the hood you grew up in. compared to an inner city drug infested upbringing an orphanage would be heaven. i just wish more self centered attention seeking celebrities would adopt american children instead of looking over seas

I'm sorry, but you have failed to address my main concern: which is that you have no evidence of any child advocate saying that Newt Gingrich has merit on his orphanage idea. You cited two quotes, the second of which is an ECONOMIST. It looks like you might have considered the 1st quote as an endorsement; however, it doesn't take a genius to see that by "vintage Newt" this person means "vintage asshole Newt."

P.S. I didn't grow up in any "hood." I grew up in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by cow pastures.

who needs a child advocate when common sense would dictate the advantage of an orphanage upbringing over being raised by alcoholic drug addicted parents. sure maybe aunt melba would be another optimum choice if she is drug free and willing...In modern-day America, orphanages are a thing of the past. Due to the emergence of foster care, the expansion of welfare, and an overall increase in life expectancy, orphanages are now seen to be largely unnecessary.
But there’s another reason for their demise which typically supersedes the rest: People tend to think that orphanages are bad.
Indeed, from Oliver Twist to Little Orphan Annie, we have long been bombarded by images of the lonely child living in cramped quarters with little to eat and even less to read. The masters are cruel, the children are loathsome, and the food is inedible.
But “not so” — or not necessarily so — says Richard B. McKenzie, editor of a recent collection of essays titled Home Away From Home: The Forgotten History of Orphanages. In the collection, McKenzie attempts to inform our common perceptions of orphanages by offering us a glimpse into what the orphanage life was really like.
The conclusion? Sometimes Dickensian, sometimes not. In either case, the McKenzian solution is a bit more cautious than we’re used to.
To build the collection, McKenzie assembled a number of academics to condense their works into more “manageable” chapters. As for McKenzie himself, he promotes a positive view of orphanages, particularly because he himself had a positive experience growing up in one.
“Critics of orphanages stress what the children there did not have.” McKenzie says. “Those of us who were there have a different perspective. We were, and remain, able to draw comparisons between what we had at The Home with what we would have had.”
http://remnantculture.com/?p=1793

so you probably understand animal husbandry more than inner city living and the inherent problems being raised by drug addicted parents and peers

you leftylibs are so predictable. you take an unrealted story and try and pin some connection on a republican. you can do better than that

whats child labor abuses in africa have to do with american politics? dig deeper my friend

you tend to exaggerate and make false accusations. i am not a newt fan but research shows working kids have better work habits and ethics later in life...http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/12/07/143258836/gingrichs-proposals....

youre in the media and a liberal so its pandemic of your nature

The only problem with that is the fact that slave children who do not get paid (except dirt) is always going to be cheaper than a big machine.

You're right--- this is exactly what he wants for American children.

Precisely my thought! I must forward this to his campaign so he can incorporate it into his next attempt to justify his comments.

bullshit! im not a gingrich fan but to make shit up as you go is not becoming although typical of a leftylib

But many of his critics, including some child advocates, say that both Gingrich's work and orphanage proposals have merit. It's the way he presents them that raises hackles.
"To me, this is vintage Newt," Ron Haskins, co-director of the Brookings Center on Children and Families, says of Gingrich's jobs-for-kids plan.

"He has a good point, but he says it in a way that many people find offensive," says Haskins, a former Republican congressional staff member and author of Work Over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law.

There is strong data that shows the lifelong benefits of learning the work ethic at an early age, Haskins says, from better pay to personal stability.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/12/07/143258836/gingrichs-proposals...

The best way to change all this is to reform the matter in which we approach world economics. The Neoliberal model is proving to be weak and unsustainable for many developing raw material exporting nations. The World is a complicated place as many are at fault whether they be the exploitative nature of multinationals to the domestic/corrupt officials that allow environmental degradation to the large informal unregulated economies of local workers who put themselves and their children in harms way in order to mine mineral sources. The demand of the rising middle class of the World is continuing to rise as people from India, China, Latin America, etc are asking for more advanced electronics and indulge in fast foods that we otherwise consider to be disgusting here in the US.

Earth to Nick19. There is no Neoliberal economic model, or otherwise, let alone one in play and effect. The model which has failed the world is corporate right "managed capitalism" which has stripped any semblance of free market from itself, and in typical trend of self absorbed entities, is sating it's greed to the point of it's own demise. When any organism, like the parasite that corporatocracy has become, continuously intoxicates itself on it's own diet, it's fated to be terminal. Fast foods, btw, are increasingly the only food that many can occasionally afford, with so many being homeless and without kitchens.

Yes, so Structural Adjustment Programs never existed and never in any way shape or form promoted Friedman's concept of Neoliberalism since the 1980s to many developing nations.

i've sold all my gold except my wedding ring.

It all depends where the gold comes from. Not all gold mining exploits children or even adults.

from my understanding of the article, all of the gold regardless of where it comes from is melted together. 12% of my gold came from these kids, and that is just unacceptable.

Not old gold or antique gold, such as gold coins and jewels. In Switzerland, as far as I can remember, there is traceability of the origin and provenance of the gold one buys in banks.

As a symbolic gesture of "drowning," I dropped mine in the ocean.
Someday, someone will find it and declare it a "relic" from ancient times. HA!!

unless mined in america

Thanks.

Good comment Hardytoo.

Your welcome

Yep, it's were the repugs would put us all.

The federal act allows youngsters of any age to "deliver newspapers; perform in radio, television, movie or theatrical productions; work in businesses owned by their parents with the exception of mining, manufacturing or hazardous job." They can also babysit , perform "minor chores" around a private home, and "gather evergreens and make evergreen wreaths."

But it's so shiny...

Here in the USA we have drive thru ATM S with Braille buttons

Thanks, this is one of those topics that tears me up.