Republican Newt Gingrich the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and current front runner to become the Republican parties candidate to challenge Barack Obama for the Presidency in 2012 has over the last several weeks has made several proposals that would lead to school children coming from the lower end of the economic scale to work as janitors at their schools. He's implied that their parents are poor because they are lazy and by being forced to work it would instill in these children respect for hard work. This program is about the Bangladeshi governments efforts to wipe out child labour in Bangladesh by 2015 as most of these children work in jobs which are quite dangerous. Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world yet they are doing the opposite of what Newt Gingrich advocates forcing the children of the economic disadvantaged to work.
"I got a little controversy going a week ago because I suggested that children could work," Gingrich told a forum with local business leaders in Greenville, South Carolina Thursday. "Now, this is education in life," Gingrich declared. "This is bringing people into the world of work, the world or prosperity, the world of savings, the world of investment -- and we want every young American to have an opportunity to do that." "So, if you took the cost of the New York City janitors, the most expensive janitors in New York are paid more than the highest paid teachers. The entry level janitor is paid twice as much as an entry level teacher. It's all because of the union. So, I say let's keep two janitors who are adults who are professional. They do all the heavy stuff and the dangerous stuff. And let's take all the other jobs and divide them up into part-time kids."
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