TBT: Rep. Jack Kingston Proposes That Poor Students Sweep Floors In Exchange For Lunch
With his face all over the news recently, this old article that captures his thinking is worth a repost!!!
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) wants kids to learn early in life that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. To make sure they absorb that lesson, he’s proposing that low-income children do some manual labor in exchange for their subsidized meals.
On Saturday, Kingston, who is vying to be his party’s nominee in Georgia’s Senate race next year, spoke at a meeting of the Jackson County Republican Party about the federal school lunch program.
Under that program, children from families with incomes at or below 130 percent of the poverty line are eligible for free meals. Students from families with incomes between 130 percent and 185 percent of the poverty level can receive lunches at reduced prices.
But on Saturday, Kingston came out against free lunches, saying that children should have to pay at least a nominal amount or do some work like sweeping cafeteria floors.
“But one of the things I’ve talked to the secretary of agriculture about: 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,” he said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/18/jack-kingston-school-lunch_n_4467711.html
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punishing the poor. It's your fault if you're poor, doncha' know? It's not the rigged system!
I have long advocated that all school students and personnel work together to keep their school clean but to single out students from less wealthy families is just wrong 
more than wrong, it's deplorable
seriously Republicans, are you that clueless as to what you are suggesting??
I hate these people! I really, really do. They want to make the lives of people who are already miserable even more miserable. It's so cruel and heartless! 
