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FarLeftFist (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-23-11 09:43 PMOriginal messageDear Newt Gingrich, for one summer I actually WAS a school janitor. Updated at 9:43 PM Yes Newt, for one summer about 3 years ago I worked in a NYC public school as one of the many hard-working school janitors in that school. Although I am in the Bricklayers/Masons Union here in NYC (Local 1), I was in between jobs waiting for my next assignment. I was fortunate enough to know someone who was a Dept. of Ed. UNION Janitor and guided me through the steps to receiving my NYC Dept. of Education Janitor ID card and offered me the summer help.This was in summer of 2008 just as your republican cronies finally hammered the last nail into the coffin of our economic system, there wasn't much work to be done on the Union Labor front here in NYC at that point due to either investors hoarding cash and not investing (i.e. No hotels, attractions, etc) or city budgets feeling the stress of tightening budgets (i.e. No new city housing, departments, facilities, hospitals, schools, etc). I qualified for unemployment from the UNION Company I previously worked for but unquestionably opted to take up this offer and learn a new trade/skill instead, even if it was temporary until my union gave me my next assignment in the field. (Of course this narrative goes against everything you republiCon f**ks believe i.e. People are lazy, people don't want to work, people would rather just do nothing and get paid, etc etc) Nope, like millions of other unemployed Americans, if they CAN work and have the chance TO work they will jump on it immediately.Now let me explain to you, in lieu of your recent comments about your position on NO child labor laws and children working as janitors instead of union members, why you, in fact, are completely f**king nuts, bat-shit insane, and out of your *******ed mind...First, when you say NO child labor laws you are already contradicting yourself and showing your true stupidity. NO child labor laws? NONE?! So you would be willing to let your 5 yr old daughter work 40 hr weeks?! If you said NO then obviously you are FOR some sort of law, at least a minimum, huh? Anyway, thats the LEAST of sheer stupidity you've unleashed on this subject. Lets continue...As a NYC Janitor I was exposed to HUGE amounts of toxic chemicals, from graffiti removal spray, to wax floor stripper, to industrial chemical solvents that could melt your face off if not used properly. Then there's the back-breaking work. Lots of it. From massive garbage disposal...3-4x a day pushing, loading, and unloading HUGE over-filled containers on wheels to multiple locations, to constant HEAVY lifting, to the often humbling bathroom cleanups and sanitization, I was lucky, this school only had 6 bathrooms, well not including all the office bathrooms for the administration as well. Have you ever cleaned a public bathroom for kids grade K-5, Newt? Yeah, scary stuff.Then there's the outside clean-up, as in on and around school property. Would you want your 9 yr old alone on a public street, sweeping, possibly abducted? C'mon Newt, some of this must be making sense by now. There's leaf-blowing, operating a John Deere, landscaping. Some other duties include assisting in working on complex boiler systems in the basement, knowledge of the entire buildings fire exits, CPR, fire sprinkler systems, evacuation routes, random things the teachers may ask of you such as moving desks and chairs from one floor to another, if the alarm is tripped in the middle of the night they drive to the school to let the police in with their keys, etc etc etc. The list never ends.Look Newt, I could keep going on the vigorous duties of just some aspects of what a janitors job entails but I imagine it must be making you feel like a very miniscule man right now because you probably never lifted a finger in your pathetic little life except to point it at those hard-working people you choose to view as the 'bottom-of-the-totem-pole' folks who's paychecks you would outsource to children because you continue on your quest to be the most evil, douchiest, half-assed attempt of man who has ever walked the Earth. Equating THAT work to somehow thinking it can be replaced by child labor marks you down in history as the single most pathetic and stupidest thing not just any presidential candidate has said in the history of the United States, but quite possible the dumbest thing anyone has ever said in the history of the United States. Congratulations.Oh btw Newt, I've been back at my Union job for over 2 years now but I'll never forget one of my first assignments as a young Union Bricklayer, rebuilding WTC 7. What have you done for you country lately?Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow DU'ers, and remember to be thankful even for the smallest things in life. It's all the small things that make life worth living. Be thankful for everyday you continue to breathe and exist and contribute to the greater good of humanity.
They are becoming more and more unhinged by the day.
I know!November 2012 is going to be so MUCH FUN!!!!
FarLeftFist ... even if it was temporary until my union gave me my next assignment in the field.
