I mean, really, quit cashing those government checks:
“I think it would be a good idea if perhaps we had the kids work for their lunches: trash to be taken out, hallways to be swept, lawns to be mowed, make them earn it,” Del. Ray Canterbury (R-Greenbrier) said during floor debate. “If they miss a lunch or they miss a meal they might not, in that class that afternoon, learn to add, they may not learn to diagram a sentence, but they’ll learn a more important lesson.”
Which will be that their government and their community think they are scum, and should be exempted from child labor laws, and are to blame for their parents’ misfortunes. I can’t think of a more appropriate lesson for children than that.
I swear whenever these Republican knobs start yobbing off about how poor people just need to learn to work hard, I think YOU FIRST ASSHOLE. I doubt any of them have ever hauled anything heavier than a double scotch, but boy are they eager to stand watch with a whip while the little children pick in the fields and scrub in the hallways.
Make them earn it. In your life, man, what have you ever earned?
A.
Now, if this were a matter of makingall children do janitorial work to learn the value of hard work and earn their lunch, regardless of family’s ability to pay/provide food, it might actually have some glimmer of a possibility of merit. It’d still be crap, but the idea that the only people who need to learn how to do physical labor are The Poors is even more crap.
Yes, because we should totally trust biological waste cleanup, toxic chemicals, and bladed power tools to little kids who haven’t had enough to eat today. What could possibly go wrong?
why do government elected officials get paid? shit, minimum wage. no benefits either. live in their shoes.
They will learn a more important lesson — about what punishment-and-cruelty-obsessed assholes Republicans are.