"The Christmas Carol" Starring Newt Gingrich as Scrooge, Warden of the Debtor's Prison BuzzFlash.org
If Charles Dickens were alive today, he would get the Newt Gingrich seal of approval.
Not the adult Dickens, but Dickens the child laborer.Dickens didn't clean toilets, but as a 12-year-old who would later become the most widely read author in England - with a vast following in the United States - Dickens was forced to work in decrepit, unsanitary conditions.
The blacking-warehouse was the last house on the left-hand side of the way, at old Hungerford Stairs. It was a crazy, tumble-down old house, abutting of course on the river, and literally overrun with rats. Its wainscoted rooms, and its rotten floors and staircase, and the old grey rats swarming down in the cellars, and the sound of their squeaking and scuffling coming up the stairs at all times, and the dirt and decay of the place, rise up visibly before me, as if I were there again.You can see Newt grinning at how misery and slave wages build character.
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