Rising Hegemon
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.Will.Work.To.Live.
Because being born poor is there problem, just ask Bloomberg.
But you cannot have a new 'Gilded Age' if you don't offset kickin' the poor with some sweet gild.
Kingston co-sponsored a $6.3 million earmark in 2008 to replenish the beach on Tybee Island, where he owns a cottage about 900 feet from the beach. "It's absurd to suggest that this benefits me," he said.[cross-posted at Firedoglake]
8 comments:
MoreOn a Kingston beach Party! It's NEITHER Hire Nor Their!! But "beach renourishment" in the face of global warming's rising tides is King Knut AB$URD, in any event!!! (Not to mention the environmental damage of digging up benthic habitat, smothering some more in the littoral zone and creating a new depauperate shoreline*) *Besides the only thing that actually works temporarily is bringing in sand from some far inland, upland site. - ACOE coastal-engineering ecologist
MoreOn a Kingston beach Party! It's NEITHER Hire Nor Their!! But "beach renourishment" in the face of global warming's rising tides is King Knut AB$URD, in any event!!! (Not to mention the environmental damage of digging up benthic habitat, smothering some more in the littoral zone and creating a new depauperate shoreline*) *Besides the only thing that actually works temporarily is bringing in sand from some far inland, upland site. - ACOE coastal-engineering ecologist
I think has confused the word "absurd" with the word "obvious".
considering the prison industrial complex, i am surprised debtors prisons haven't been instituted.
Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) does not believe in
'free lunches' for school children, but he does believe in
(1) free flights to and from his home state and D.C., (2) free
airport parking, (3) free on-site gym access, (4) free health-
insurance subsidies, (5) free death benefits, and (6) free
239 paid days off. He also believes that poor school children
should sweep floors in exchange for lunch. It's unclear what
he thinks congressmen should do in exchange for all their
'free lunches', but whiting sepulchres would seem to be
appropriate.
We have the technology to grind the bones of the poor into fine beach sand. If only the government would get out of the way and let the free market work it's magic.
Yet one more attempt to destroy the workers' protections built up over a century. Gotta get back to the Gilded Age.
These are some sick motherfuckers.
unfuckingbelievable...
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