Newt Gingrich is engaging in class warfare when he suggests poor kids work as janitors

I accept my opponents definition of "class warfare" as being "Class warfare: is when one declares or proclaims a particular segment of society (By Class, ie. Affluent, Middle Class, The Poor) as being a detriment to society as a whole" lets look what the word detriment means detriment: Noun: 1) The state of being harmed or damaged. 2) A cause of harm or damage. Argument 1. Newt Gingrich is not engaging in class warfare, he is trying to ensure that it will not happen. How is suggesting job opportunity's for poverty stricken family's a cause of harm or damage? Perhaps they are not the most glamours jobs in the world however looking for a realistic solution to decrease crime rates and provide an income for family's that may not have one is not engaging class warfare at all. argument 2. Lets take a look at some of what Mr. Gingrich actually said that night in question. first quote by Mr. Gingrich: "Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works, So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash,' unless it's illegal." Well statistically poverty stricken neighborhoods due in fact have a very low job rate. Further more they statistically also have a much higher crime rate. So if the majority of people living in these areas do not have jobs nor a steady income and live in an area with a high crime rate, and need money to survive then yes statistically more then less create their own income by doing something illegel. It should also be noted as well that the majority of these crimes or misdemeanor drug charges. Which means the majority are not serious crimes but a quick way to make a buck. However it is still in fact illegel to do so. Quote number 2: "You have a very poor neighborhood. You have kids who are required under law to go to school, They have no money. They have no habit of work. What if you paid them part-time in the afternoon to sit at the clerical office and greet people when they came in? What if you paid them to work as the assistant librarian? And I'd pay them as early as is reasonable and practical. I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we're involved in right now, and finding a way for poor children to learn how to work and learning how to have money that they've earned honestly is an integral part of that." From this quote alone I would like to point out that Newt was not being ignorant when he said underprivileged kids should work as janitors. He also suggest other jobs such as assistant librarian, clerical office greeter. He was suggesting a solution to the staggering amount over criminal activity in these extremely underprivileged neighborhoods. and once again trying to find a solution to a problem is not engaging in class warfare. While you might not agree with what Mr. Gingrich had said I think it is easy enough to prove that he was not trying to create conflict between economic classes, but rather find practical solutions to improve these underprivileged areas as a whole.