From today's New York Times:
"If only they were more willing to be janitors! Asked by Mr. Williams why he has frequently suggested that poor children be employed as school janitors, Mr. Gingrich said his daughter worked as a church janitor at age 13 and liked earning the money and that it would be a good way for poor students to learn the value of work. But, he suggested, Mr. Obama doesn’t want them to work at all because liberal elites prefer to “maximize dependency.”
Don’t try to follow any kind of logical thread of why the president wouldn’t want the jobless rate to decrease; there isn’t one. This trumpet was sounded to feed the prejudice of people who already believe that blacks and other poor people don’t really like to work and to deflect the growing public awareness that the Republican Party’s highest priority is protecting the rich from higher taxes."
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You know, I've been involved in higher education all my life–I grew up on college campuses, my father was a college president. I have no idea who Gingrich is refering to when he talks about "liberal elites" since I've never really met one. I think Thorstein Veblen was a liberal elite but "he gone".
Planet of the Blind 