State Legislator: Make Children Work for Their School Lunches

[riqster]

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/state-legislator-make-children-work-for-their-school-lunches/

Snip: "A West Virginia “Republican” state legislator said exactly that. If a child gets their school lunch paid for, this Dickensian (accent on “dick”) jackass thinks they should be made to perform janitorial duties, landscape work, and so forth.

Really, Mr. Canterbury? Child labor? Forcing six-year-olds to haul trash and push power mowers? You DO know that’s illegal, don’t you?"

More at the link.

[LonePirate]

1. There really is no limit to the outrageous, disgusting and crazy things RWers will say nowadays.

They must spend hours trying to come up with these astonishingly backwards things to say or propose.

[arcane1]

2. As if low-income kids don't get picked on enough in school

Sometimes I hope to discover that the modern republican party was one massive performance art project.

[onenote]

3. please sir...

[Paulie]

4. Just sick.

No child labor left behind. Asshat.

[tokenlib]

5. Single out the poor, let them be bullied and mocked...

..arrogant rich bastards. The picture would not be very nice...and the reality worse. If you let the kids who can pay for their lunches--clean the toilets--then maybe.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. For a period of my childhood...

I was on the free lunch program. I don't know how many lunches I skipped just due to the embarrassment. Now some asshat wants to add more? I would gladly pay more property taxes so ALL kids received free lunches at school- breakfast, too.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Oh, and rec'cing for visibility. nt

[Heather MC]

8. As if being poor and needing to use the free lunch program is not enough of a hardship

[DhhD]

9. Federal Lunch Money for work. By whose authority will children work while at school?

There are Child Labor Laws.

The family fills out a federal application for free or reduced lunches and breakfasts.

This is against public law.

[BlueDemKev]

10. Here's the article from the West Virginia Gazette

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201304120207

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. my best friends (two sisters) got German potato salad.

For lunch. Their mom fixed it. This was in high school. The family had five kids and their dad was a minister.

They marveled over my lunch. My mom made an eye of round roast, and I got good roast beef sandwiches on white bread.

We didn't know about wheat bread then.

[davidpdx]

12. Which Republican candidate was it that said we should allow children to work as janitors?

All the jackasses run together so it's hard to remember. I only remember an 8 headed monster.

[DhhD]

13. Newt Gangrene.

[Drahthaardogs]

14. How do these crazy asses keep getting elected?

Seriously, how much work can a five year old? If they pick up their toys I always counted it as a win!