Newt does have his moments!
 
From last night’s debate in South Carolina – Gingrich’s response to Juan William’s Republicans-are-racist innuendo:
 

My first summer job – at 15 – was working 40 hour weeks as a maid at a Holiday Inn. Tough work, but quite a learning experience. It instilled a sense of accomplishment, maturity, and put $$ in my pocket baby! I’m sure many of my readers have similar stories.
 
How will the poor even learn they “can” when liberals keep telling them they “can’t?” The Left’s only response to poverty is to pass out more free stuff: Welfare Dependence Keeps Growing.
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Related:
 
Modern-Day Bread Lines Breaking Records ~
Average annual participation in the food stamp program (now called “SNAP”) from 1969 through September 2011:
 

 
Not only is it counter-productive but, as the Heritage Foundation points out, the Food Stamp program is losing billions to fraud.
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Update: 1-19-12 ~ from Larrey Anderson at the American Thinker: Newt is right. Obama is the food stamp president.

My home state of Idaho just broke a record. Of her 1.5 million residents, 235,000 are on food stamps. The tab is $30 million a month. That’s $360 million a year.
 
This means that every person in Idaho must somehow come up with $240 a year — just to pay for food stamps. (Do the math.)

 
Hey msm – facts are stubborn things aren’t they? Guess that’s why you seldom give us any.