Monthly Archives: November 2011
Dumb and Dumber
When asked why he’d make a better candidate now than he has in the past, Newt Gingrich said, “I do fewer dumb things.” Oops.
He made that claim after calling child labor laws stupid. These are laws that took more than a hundred years of struggle to bring about. And, finally, in 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed setting minimum ages and hours of work for children.
Before that, yes here in America, children were sometimes forced into indentured servitude, slavery, or were simply the preferred workers. Why?
