Quotations from Speaker Newt Gingrich: on Jobs


Newt Gingrich: Welfare attacks work & encourages getting out of work

The traditional emphasis on work is under severe attack. The most obvious examples are the dropouts, the hippies, the people who use loopholes in the welfare system to draw unjustified benefits. However these often discussed (& attacked) examples are just the tip of the iceberg.

The real effort to get out of work in this century involves the average American. There has been constant pressure for shorter work weeks, larger vacations and earlier retirement.
--The Georgian (Carrollton, Mar.18, 1976

Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p. 34 Jan 1, 1995

Newt Gingrich: Lower lifetime earning level if you go to Job Corps

More young people get more entry-level training in McDonald's than anywhere else. The tragedy of the welfare state is that its answer to McDonald's is to raise taxes and transfer the money to a Job Corps bureaucracy--even though recent studies have shown you will have a lower lifetime earning level if you go to the Job Corps than if you avoid it.
--Readings in Renewing American Civilization
Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p.121-2 Jan 1, 1995

  • The above quotations are from Quotations from Speaker Newt
    The Little Red, White and Blue Book of the Republican Revolution
    by Newt Gingrich and Amy D. Bernstein.
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