GOP Rep. Jack Kingston Proposes That Poor Students Sweep Floors In Exchange For Lunch

[Cali_Democrat]

Source: Huffington Post

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.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/18/jack-kingston-school-lunch_n_4467711.html

[hobbit709]

1. Maybe he should do something productive to earn his $170K+ salary as an example.

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

31. That worked out so well for the NEwtster.

[Aerows]

38. Maybe he should be the first to raise the FICA cap

since every damn one of them make at least 50K over it, and many of them make a lot more. No no, we can't raise the SS cap, because it might cut into a Congressional salary. Suggest that.

[lark]

2. Stupid Repugs, suggesting schools break labor laws.

How about children of the rich have to sweep floors so the poor can have lunches so they repay all the workers for the income they've stolen by their parents moving American jobs overseas?

Seriously, a lawmaker is suggesting that schools violate child labor laws? Seriously? What a buffoon. Just another blatant display of Repug hypocricy - all laws must be enforced, unless they would help some poor people.

[KamaAina]

32. Thus Rep. Kingston is guilty of inducement to commit a crime.

Haul his ass off to the nearest private prison!

[upaloopa]

3. How about getting better paying jobs for poor people.

"Are there no work houses"
A republican Scrooge just in time for Christmas.

[Kelvin Mace]

12. Scrooge was fucking Jesus compared to these people

[VanillaRhapsody]

4. Oh yeah...just like my sharecropping father who had to share shoes with his

siblings...had to chop wood...then drop out after 6th grade to crop tobacco and cotton from daylight to dark for $0.50 a day! This is what they want to return us to...one step from away from slavery...indentured servitude...and you better like it or else!

[TwilightGardener]

5. And then the shabby little urchins can join the lunch line at about 2:55 pm,

after a day's janitorial work and classes, and eat the leftover slop that's being scraped into the trash.

[Mass]

6. Pandering to the far right, now that he has suggesting tanking ACA is not a good idea.

He probably figures it will help for the primary.

He may believe it though, but it was also an easy shot at pandering.

[packman]

7. Damn, moving to Georgia

Just so I can vote against this arrogant, asshole of a prick. Employ the rich kids as supervisors over the poor sweepers, got to make it an even playing field.

Ranks right up there with,"Let them eat cake".
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[OnlinePoker]

8. So he's blaming the kids for their parents not earning enough money?

Maybe he should require kids who have enough to eat every day to prove that they "earned" their meals as well and weren't just given a free lunch by their parents. What an ass.

[Swede Atlanta]

9. What is wrong with these people?

For one he is baiting his base (the over 50, white hair or no hair racists of the Southern GOP) because what he really means is the poor black children should be sweeping the floors in exchange for the privilege of attending a public school.

Schools are there to educate. These children need more than anything to be focused on their academic progress so that they can be prepared to compete in the global economy.

I am not opposed to having programs that give older adolescents an opportunity to earn some pocket money but this needs to be children 16 or older. I recall I actually had an "on call" job for a local hotel at age 15 to help deliver bags when a tour bus would come into town and always had a summer job. That was very useful and taught me a lot about what I did not want to do for a living.

But forcing poor children who are already disadvantaged to sweep floors just to get a hot school lunch? Really Jack? I suggest you do some work for your salary and benefits other than voting to repeal Obamacare and shutting down the government.

[Kelvin Mace]

10. Because firing the janitorial staff

and replacing them with slave labor is really going to help poverty in America, by consigning the families of the custodial staff to slave labor.



Fuck this guy!

[El Shaman]

11. Hey,

Jack ; you know what you can do with the 'broom sticks'!!!?

[BlueJazz]

13. Plus the little ingrates are getting their education for free. I think that they should ....

....have bicycles hooked up to generators so the poor children can ride in the classroom, generate power, ...school sells the power
to the power company and everybody is happy! "Mary...you're slowing down...step it up!...."

[whathehell]

14. His fellow Georgian, Newt Gingrich suggested the same thing -- kids as janitors

with, perhaps, one adult supervisor. You have to admire the ambition of these guys.

They now not only want to destroy unions, they want to bring back Child Labor too.

[Diego_Native 2012]

15. Time these people gave up the label

of Christian. Call them the Mammonists the truly are.

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." – Matthew 6:19–21,24 (KJV)

[TBF]

16. I think it's time for Congress to work for free -

I'm tired of subsidizing these motherfuckers.

And he can vacuum his own damned office too.

[liberalmuse]

17. This is reprehensible.

How can anyone with a heart and soul even fathom such a thing? I would love to get a head count on how many people are actually okay with this. They need to be outed.

[The Second Stone]

18. How about Kingston gets a job and stops leeching off of

taxpayers pretending to be morally superior?

[SoapBox]

19. Oh ya...you just double down on making kids beg (aka sweep) for food.

Like others said...Scrooge.

[Jessy169]

20. Forcing poor kids to sweep floors for food -- a real self esteem booster

And if that works, Jack Kingston probably has some other tasks in mind for those poor kids, you know, cleaning toilets, washing dishes, taking out the trash -- heck, let's just turn them into slaves. I'm sure that is what Jack Kingston would ultimately like to do anyway.

Yesterday on DU there was an article about some Republican congressman pointing out that "sometimes" Republicans come across as Neanderthals.

Jack Kingston, case in point.

[cstanleytech]

21. In fairness such a program should be applied equally to all students both rich and poor.

And it should be limited to helping pickup the trash and sweep the floor in the cafeteria and only the cafeteria but as for his current proposal he has made? Someone needs to tell him to shove it back in the hole it came from.

[AllyCat]

22. It never ends with these haters.

They hate the poor. They hate children. They hate public school. They hate ANYTHING that takes away from their outrageous salary and the unfathomable earnings for their corporate masters.

I have an idea. With all that free time he has doing absolutely nothing, maybe HE could scrub the floors.

[n2doc]

23. That's my nut

He is what passes for a 'moderate' in the southern GOP these days...

[Judi Lynn]

24. It would be heaven seeing someone use Jack Kingston's face as a mop in scrubbing floors.

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Of course we know Jack, as a mop, would leave the floor far dirtier, and SLIMIER than it was before.

This is exactly what anyone could have expected from this creep at any time in his ugly career. It's his "style."

[tabasco]

25. I hate these people.

I truly hate them. They are vile scum.

[klook]

26. He's trying to out-asshole the other assholes vying for the Ga. Republican senate nomination.

Even a right-wing turd like Kingston is concerned about appearing "too liberal" (translate: "human&quot to get elected here.

Blecch.

Come on, Michelle Nunn!

[Solly Mack]

27. What an asshole.

[DinahMoeHum]

28. After you, Jack.

n/t

[HockeyMom]

29. Custodian, "I will clean up his mess in the bathroom"

"You job is to teach him and care for him". I worked 1:1 with a special needs 5 year old. One day he had a bad accident in the bathroom because he got sick. While I was perfectly willing to clean up after him, I was not going to do this without the correct supplies: gloves, disinfectant, etc. The Custodian (not outsourced yet) told me he would give me the supplies to clean up the child, but it was HIS job to clean the property of the school when the children made messes.

I suppose according to these people a 5 year old special needs child should have cleaned that toilet bowl, floor, then cleaned himself and his clothes?

[sakabatou]

30. How about you sweep and scrub the entire building where you work before you get paid

[madashelltoo]

33. I want the Repigs in Congress

(Senate included) to sweep floors and clean bathrooms and take out the trash to get a portion of their pay. After all, they're not doing any damned thing else!

[rustbeltvoice]

34. Kingston has a history of stupid

Kingston is one of those individuals, so stupid that one must wonder how he learned speech. Yet, he enjoys a career of saying inane and insulting things. Can not Bubba and Hannah in Savannah vote for someone else? If i remember right, he complained how long the work weeks were for him in the District, and that he wastes time in running against opposition candidates.

In 2008 Jack Kingston, was on television and accused Barack Obama of disloyalty. His high crime: not wearing a flag lapel pin. To the show host's, Dan Abrams, credit, he noticed Kingston was not wearing one. Such inconsistencies just go without saying, the troublesome thing is -- a verbal recognition. For years Republicans have worn a flag pin as a sign of false patriotism, so as to attack others falsely and especially falsely by innuendo. In 2007 Jack Kingston, a congressman of Georgia, introduced a resolution to commend the wealthy, druggie, radio mouth Limbaugh, after some Democrats took Limbaugh to task, for equating soldiers who criticize the war as traitors.

Please, our brothers and sisters from Georgia remind us of his past idiocies. There must be enough episodes for a soap opera. Every once in a while his stupidity he displays and flaunts on camera. I think he tries to court Colbert, and Maher on cable. He had to have said some outrageous tidbits. Did he not recently say something stupid about Democrats being responsible for weak gun laws?

Supposedly this nincompoop is the child of a professor. He was afforded some sort of education and instruction. How can the normal world comprehend?

And further, is every white Congressman in Georgia beyond redemption in a civil and sane society? Texas is represented by a great number of contemptible jerks; but Georgia is smaller, and they have: Kingston, Paul Broun Jr., Phil Gingrey, and Lynn Westmoreland in the House. The first three want to be US senator, Nathan Deal became governor. Really, what gives?

[muntrv]

35. Uh Jack? You need to do more work, asshole!

http://thomas.loc.gov/home/ds/h1131.html

[jwirr]

36. In the 50s my father was one of those small farmers who was going broke. I was in 5th grade and

my brother and I did not have money for hot lunches. And food at home was also short. My dad went to the school and asked if I could do any work for our hot lunches. They put me to work washing dishes in the lunch room. It was my first job. I worked every day and got paid two meals a day. This rethug is a fool.

[YOHABLO]

37. Oh he is just playing to his base. He definitely knows his base here in Georgia.

These good ole boys love this stuff. Unfortunate, sad but true.

[warrant46]

40. Yes !!! His base of Fundamentalist Christians are cheering

These Fundy Christians think its OK that children starve because their parents are perceived to be lazy.

And if you feed these children for free you will encourage mom (the welfare Cadillac Queen) to breed even more offspring with who ever happens to be around and then the whole tribe will become even more dependent.

Its old testament faux Christianity. With a slice of Racism thrown in when the child is a minority or mixed race.

After all Jesus is white -- isn't he ?

[rustbeltvoice]

41. But you see the difficulty for me...

The basic decency of humanity is absent. These scoundrels, reprobates, and mean spirited pricks should not win contests with seventy percent of the vote. If they do, it is an indictment on the electorate, and therefore, the population. And it is not just these crackers and peckerwoods (whether i am allowed to use those terms), i am forced to believe it is the country on the whole.

I am not looking at the census data, but Savannah, and the sea islands, and military bases are in that district. And he and the other asses who are running for Senate, one of them will win their party's candidacy. Georgia has over thirty percent African-American population, and perhaps close to ten percent Latino/Chicano population. Are there so few people of good will and good sense in that state in the remainder of the population that such individuals coast to victory? Once this state elected Jimmy Carter, and Max Cleland.

I am almost a-wanting to say the best Republican that ever came through Georgia was William Tecumseh Sherman.

[weissmam]

39. I guess he don't realize this makes him sound like an ass AND THAT youtube is forever (LOL)

[Ken Burch]

42. "Are there no workhouses?"

[CTyankee]

46. "Please, Sir, I want some more..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sZrgxHvNNUc#t=0

[JI7]

43. they might as well come out and say they want to bring back slavery

[ConcernedCanuk]

44. That's a good idea!

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Let's think this out.

I figure a decent school lunch would be about 3 - 5 bucks.

At a pay scale of 10 bucks an hour - 1/2 hour per day buys ya lunch -I STRESS

A REAL DECENT LUNCH.

A sandwich and milk - 2 bucks if that - so 12 minutes work for that.

There is (or shouldn't be) NO WAY the $$ value of the food and the $$ value of the labor should differ.

I'd say bring it on - now find enough personnel available and qualified to run such a programme.

Myself? - I'd work for extra credits and feed my friends who cannot or will not work.

Suck it up brain surgeons!

'twas ur idea . . .



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[Bosso 63]

45. Hey Jack, your proposal is too modest. Tell your base what they really want to hear.

The best way to serve poor children is with fava beans and a nice chianti.

[DebJ]

47. One big factor I'd like to ask him about: the concentration of the poor into a few schools.

Our local city school system is almost ENTIRELY comprised of free lunch / reduced lunch students,
because the poor are geographically isolated in the city. There wouldn't be enough floor to sweep
if almost every single student had to do this.

Isn't this the case almost everywhere, that the bulk of those on free lunch go to the same schools?

On Edit: It would be funny to actually enact this as a prank on him, to have one of these schools
video a scenario where each child sweeps up like 2 feet of floor.

[bulloney]

48. There's no such thing as a free lunch, says the congressman who receives free lunches regularly

and other junkets from lobbyists he regularly whores around with.

You can likely apply this to at least 90% of these idiots.