Those two quotes prove my point.
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even though most of these ideas are lousy if not downright offensive, such as firing unionized school janitors, so poor children could do their jobs
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What Gingrich actually advocated was allowing kids to earn money helping to clean up their school. My first job was raking leaves and sweeping floors at May A Gallagher Junior High School when I was a kid. Darn good money for a 13 year old. Eliminating just one high paying low performing union janitor job would provide a bunch of kids like me a hard to find source of income, not to mention teaching us a few valuable lessons about the value of a buck.
But oh no. Speigel, deems that "offensive". That makes me believe that rags like der Speigel are what is wrong with our society.