Georgia Rep. who wanted poor kids to work for lunch is cool with spending taxpayer money on his own

[phantom power]

Of course.

We last met Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GAH) when he was going on about how he wanted all the poor kids getting subsidized lunches to have to work as janitors in order to teach them the beautiful life lesson of how there is no such thing as a free lunch. You know, because all the rich kids whose parents are able to afford their lunch obviously toil away in the coal mines after school to earn theirs. Also because the greatest criminals in our country are hungry children.

Now, the other shoe has dropped, as it is wont to do.

An investigation by Georgia’s WSAV-TV revealed that our fiscally responsible, “no such thing as a free lunch” hero has been expensing many of his own lunches and his staff’s lunches over the past three years since he’s been in office. To the tune of $4,182. Which, according to Talking Points Memo, would have funded 2,000 school lunches.

That’s taxpayer money. Now, call me crazy, but as a taxpayer myself, I feel a lot better about paying for the lunch of a poor 8-year-old than I do paying for the lunch of a bunch of rich politicians.

The investigation also revealed that Kingston enjoyed $4,289 worth of free meals paid for by third-party groups like the Georgia Bankers Association and the Congressional Institute. He traveled around the globe on congressional business trips, racking up $24,313 in costs, and he expensed $145,391 worth of meals for campaign events.

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/212889/georgia-rep-who-wanted-poor-kids-to-work-for-lunch-is-cool-with-spending-taxpayer-money-on-his-own/

[Laelth]

1. Beautifully written. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[gopiscrap]

2. What a fucking asshole!

[CurtEastPoint]

3. A rich, pampered, rather dense Southern asshole.

Privileged, can't see beyond his own little world.
Doesn't believe in evolution or global warming.
Regarding the extension of the House work week from 3 days to 5 in 2006, Kingston commented: “Keeping us up here eats away at families. Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families – that’s what this says.”
Pitiful. And the clowns in S. Ga. keep re-electing this ass.

[Hoyt]

4. Won't matter. As long as he bashes the poor, Georgia bigots will support him.

[SoapBox]

9. 100% agree.

I work for a huge Southern based company (but live on the Left Coast...makes me a freak to many) and the amount of Holy/Pious mixed with the hypocritical, vicious, mean and nasty never fails to amaze.

[raging moderate]

5. I went hungry a lot as a kid.

There was no lunch program at my elementary school. And no free lunch program at my high school. I spent most mornings thinking, "Now it's only two hours 20 minutes until I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich... Now it's only two hours 10 minutes until I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich..." etc. ("Gee, what is that kid daydreaming about all the time?" Note to current teachers: Why don't you privately ask the kid if he/she would like a cracker or a slice of bread? ).
My mother WAS working full-time. She just wasn't getting PAID a living wage. They were extremely happy to take FREE advantage of her high work ethic and her hard-won accuracy in spelling and grammar, weren't they? As they take FREE advantage of many other kinds of good skills and work ethics today. Talk about a sense of entitlement. Yeah, let's talk about that. Let's really talk about it.

[treestar]

11. That story breaks my heart

This asshole needs to hear it.

[mountain grammy]

13. From another who often went without lunch..

yes, let's really talk about it. These representatives represent no one but their own selfish interests.

[progressoid]

6. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tells ya.

[Iliyah]

7. How Christian of him.

And their base still votes for them, go figure.

[QuestForSense]

10. All for me, but none for thee.

hy·poc·ri·sy: a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.

[niyad]

8. 145k in campaign lunches? who paid for those?

[radicalliberal]

12. A shameless hypocrite! n/t

[El_Johns]

14. Big K&R. This is how they think. They are worthy of all, but no one else is.

[johnnyreb]

15. Lemme at 'em.

[Skittles]

16. what an asshole

I cannot think of a much better way to spend taxpayer money than to make sure schoolchildren are fed - children DO NOT LEARN WHEN THEY ARE HUNGRY