Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) Wants Poor Students to Sweep Floors for Lunch

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/12/18/kingston_wants_poor_students_to_sweep_floors_for_lunch.html


Kingston Wants Poor Students to Sweep Floors for Lunch


Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) proposed that "low-income children do some manual labor in exchange for their subsidized meals," the Huffington Post reports.

Said Kingston: "Why don't you have the kids pay a dime, pay a nickel to instill in them that there is, in fact, no such thing as a free lunch? Or maybe sweep the floor of the cafeteria -- and yes, I understand that that would be an administrative problem, and I understand that it would probably lose you money. But think what we would gain as a society in getting people -- getting the myth out of their head that there is such a thing as a free lunch."

[tosh]

1. This is ONE of the (R)repugnants

running for the senate.

[Gothmog]

5. To get the GOP nomination, you have to be the biggest jerk in the field

Kingston is trying to be a larger jerk than the other GOP/tea party candidates running for this nomination. He has big shoes to fill given that this is Saxby Chambliss seat (a world class jerk). In Texas, the GOP candidates for Lt. Governor are in a contest to see who loves teaching creationism more. The first candidate to come out in favor of the world being flat will likely win the GOP nomination for this seat

[tosh]

11. I know!

They would be amusing - no, hilarious - if we could just round them up and put them in their own little colony somewhere.

French Guyana comes to mind a la Papillon ...

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Remember when Jesus made the multitude sweep the streets and clean chamber pots...

...before they were allowed to partake of the miracle of loaves and fishes?

[valerief]

3. Why not have the rich kids pay for the poor kids? And hire a friggin' janitor? nt

[BillE]

4. Wouldn't that violate

child labor laws?

[marmar]

6. I'm so sick of these a**holes......

[KamaAina]

7. That would be a violation of labor law

hence Rep. Kingston is guilty of inducement to commit a crime. Haul his ass off to the nearest private prison!

[CTyankee]

9. Didn't Newt Gingrich come up with a similar idea back in the primaries of 2007?

[KamaAina]

10. No. He did in the primaries of 2008.

As much as some state repuke parties (I'm talking to you, Florida) would have liked to move their primaries up before the new year, it never happened.

Must be something in the water down there.

[K lib]

8. Why not pass some laws?

You know because the taxpayers subsidize your salary to do nothing like the rest of your repuke brethren

[Spirochete]

12. He needs a fucking lobotomy

He's the knob who said that people who were struggling financially should get another job, or work more hours, then pitched a major hissy fit when Pelosi made the House work increased hours.

[GeorgeGist]

13. Probably thought this up while ...

eating his free lunch in the House dining room.

[Raine1967]

14. This is the VERY same tool that bemoaned having to actually work 5 days a week back in 2006:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/05/AR2006120501342.html

Forget the minimum wage. Or outsourcing jobs overseas. The labor issue most on the minds of members of Congress yesterday was their own: They will have to work five days a week starting in January.

The horror.

Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, the Maryland Democrat who will become House majority leader and is writing the schedule for the next Congress, said members should expect longer hours than the brief week they have grown accustomed to.

"I have bad news for you," Hoyer told reporters. "Those trips you had planned in January, forget 'em. We will be working almost every day in January, starting with the 4th."
(snip)

"Keeping us up here eats away at families," said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. "Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says."

And then there is this:

I really wish we could get the House back.

And I really wish he would just leave altogether to spend time with his precious family.

[babylonsister]

15. Yes, he's a POS. I've disliked

him for so long, even before I moved to GA.

[Raine1967]

16. I moved to Atlanta in June 2006. I was agog at his level of bile.

I moved there from NY and we had some republican winners, but when he said that? It was at that point I thought this party is going off the rails. I'm now in Virginia...

And we just kicked some teaparty ass!

Gawdforphuckingbid HE should have to work, and her he is suggesting poor children should mop floors because no one deserves a free lunch.

I cannot stand him. I really hope Georgia elects Michelle Nunn to replace Chambliss.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/327273-michelle-nunn-hauls-in-17m-in-georgia-senate-race <-- YOu know, I'll donate to this race!

If Virginia can do it, I have a feeling Georgia can too!