Eve Eve Tahmincioglu looks like a female Jon F'in Kerry
Posted on 01/18/2012 10:03:15 PM PST by Steelfish
Gingrich Daughter's Teen Work May Have Violated Law
By Eve Tahmincioglu During the Republican presidential debate this week, Newt Gingrich shared a story about how his daughter worked as a church janitor when she was only 13.
“I was actually proud of my clean bathrooms,” Jackie Gingrich Cushman said in an telephone interview Tuesday, referring to the janitorial job she held at the First Baptist Church in Carrollton, Ga., in the early 1980s. “I learned work has value.”
But that work may have been a violation of federal child labor laws that her father has denounced as “stupid.”
Cushman was 13 when she took the part-time, minimum-wage janitorial job, scrubbing bathrooms two days a week using cleaning supplies and a bucket. She said working as a janitor was a "great experience." Asked if she was working legally as a janitor for the church, Cushman said, "I certainly hope so."
But based on child labor laws in effect now and in the 1980s, 13-year-olds are not allowed to hold janitorial jobs, said Michael Hancock, assistant administrator for policy in the wage and hour division of the U.S. Department of Labor.
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MSNBC contributor Eve Tahmincioglu lamented that, “Disasters wipe out jobs along with lives .” In her piece, Tahmincioglu blamed job loss directly on the tornadoes and floods that have bedeviled the central US.
The hardest-hit states already are seeing claims pour in for unemployment benefits. Since a deadly wave of tornadoes swept through Tuscaloosa, Ala., and other Southeast towns in late April, more than 6,000 people have applied for disaster-related jobless benefits, said Tom Surtees, director of the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations. Typically about 24,000 people file for jobless benefits each month in the state, where the jobless rate is 9.3 percent, a bit above the national average.
Might make sense, of course. If your towns have been wiped out by natural disasters, well, it might stand to reason that jobs would be wiped out, too. This might help explain the sad jobs picture during this, the Obama administration. MSNBC would love if it were that simple, love to have something other than Obama to blame for the high unemployment figures, certainly. (more…)
From the “figures lie, but liars figure” department we find that left-leaning cable newser MSNBC reported that the main reason Obama’s job stats are tumbling and unemployment is so high is because of the harsh tornado season and other natural disasters we have been experiencing over the first half of 2011. Yet, hypocritically, if we take a peak back to the unemployment rates reported by MSNBC in 2004, during Bush’s era, his jump in hiring was called false because of — you guessed it — hurricanes and other natural disasters.
That’s right, folks, MSNBC is using natural disasters to explain away Obama’s high unemployment rates when they used the very same excuse, natural disasters, to say that Bush’s rise in employment was false.
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Why?
It's a great opportunity for the MSM to work for social justice. MSNBC should stay on this case until noon a year from tomorrow, when Newt takes the oath.
It should be illegal for Liberals to buy door locks, or locks of any kind for that matter.
Liberals lock their doors to protect them from other Liberals.
Jackie should take her broom and shove it up MSNBC’s ass where it is needed to clean out all the leftist crap that is up there.
Might even poke Chrissy Matthews, commie O’Donnell, and Ed The Horse Schulz in the eye, up there.
Eve Eve Tahmincioglu looks like a female Jon F'in Kerry
I shoveled snow, took care of gardens, raked leaves, worked in my father’s store, and worked at a camp as a waiter, all before I was 15.
Bought food, records, stamps, and a coke & cody with my own money.
I’m no govt welfare slave. Everyone in my family worked, often from the day they got off the boats from Europe (5 cents an hour to roll cigars; sewing, etc).
Obama has created a nation of “slackers” (McFly), and MSNBC wants to keep it that way.
The writer, probably a crazy Romanian who missed working on the horse radish farms by a hair.
‘Gingrich Daughter’s Teen Work May Have Violated Law’
My parents definely violated child labor laws and I am so glad they did! I learned to work my ass off and loved it and still do to this day. It is a great feeling to know you have worked a hard days work to make your own living.
Some 45% of the country’s freeloaders should know such joy and happiness!
These know it alls can kiss my ass! I doubt any of these so-called experts have ever worked a real days work in their ugly souled lives.
When I heard Newt talk about it, I thought the janitor was tossed out as an example, of the things he was talking about not that all janitors could or should be replaced with kids.
That IS the problem, they are making us all criminals, some before they are fourteen years old. Where is the freedom they are always talking about?
Technically this kind of light church-cleaning might have not been kosher, but it sounds very like a family chore situation with easy tasks. It does not sound like anything that comes remotely close to abuse.
Much like those who grew up on farms, those of us from lumberjack families were doing all sorts of illegal/dangerous work from our pre-teen years onward. Quite a few of my friends were more than capable (and did) of driving skidders and loaders/running chainsaws well before 16 rolled around.
My grandfather and my uncle both drove log trucks and I spent many a 40 below night in them keeping them running in an Adirondack winter because a 350 Cummins does not like to start at that temp after sitting all night. Likewise under them changing busted springs and blown tires on 20 in. split rims. (try Coke for rust busting ;)
This country would have then/still would today fail utterly without kids working jobs that the govt says are illegal.
Hey, I manned garage sales when I was a kid. Probably violated some stupid feral law. I loved it because I got to make money.
Mountain meets molehill.
kids can yeehaw too
In a weird way, this actually takes away some of the innocence of childhood. Kids normally don’t have to be beaten or goaded into doing things that their parents and older siblings willingly do. Dad painted rooms, so did I. My big brother worked on the car from above and beneath, so did I. It was a family thing.
Indeed!
I can just imagine what those libs would do if they ever found out that all them farm/forestry/industrial redneck teen kids had a beer or two right along with their Dads/co workers at the end of the day too ;)
I miss the old ways and the old days.
I remember work ethic. I got mine by working in the fields in the summers and then when I hit High School, being from a large poor family, I was eligible to participate in something called “Work Study” where I could work before and after school in the attendance office and during the summer doing maintanance, filing and whatever other work they needed done at the high school.
Then I worked in the cannery at night. When I got to college I still got to participate in the Work Study program and that helped a lot. Of course, this was the 60s, not the 80s.
After the child labor laws came about is when we had the influx migrants who became immigrants and when the kids started being so ungrateful, IMO.
Might make sense to serve it in a mini mug, though, because the effect of the alcohol is proportional to the body weight. One can to a kid might be like three or four cans to his dad.
But don’t let Smokey the Bear see it.
Up north we had more than one 16 year old ‘lumberjack’ in the 200 pound range. And not a lot of fat on’em. Think the stereotypical ‘Farm boy’. They grow’em big in the woods ;)
BS aside, I’m not saying Dads force fed beer to their kids, my point was simply that it was just another ‘dangerous thing’ that libs would flip over. In the 80s there were still states with 17 YO drinking ages. Today people tend to forget that once upon a time in the pre MADD hysteria days, a teenager with a beer was not that uncommon, nor did parents freak out about it.
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