Rep. Rich McCormick defends the potential impacts of the White House's federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some children should be working instead of receiving free lunch.
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I read the article, and this is just gross. Why can’t a high school kid from a poor family be allowed to get lunch at school so that they can keep the earnings from their summer job? Wouldn’t that do more to help people escape poverty???
Exactly! Kids shouldn't have to work to buy their own food. And what about all the young kids? Yet another example of pretending to be pro-life but really just being forced-birth and then abandoning families to the capitalist hellscape.
I’m afraid it’s more insidious than that. The system is already rigged by the basic funding mechanisms (property taxes). Taking away vital nutritional assistance is beyond disenfranchisement. Children will get sick, some will die, and it’ll be hard to track it back to this policy.
Announcing a tone deaf mean-spirited, non-solution to a real problem, from Moron Lago where the GOP feeds taxpayer money to Trump’s pockets. Sometimes GOP is a Kakistocracy. Sometimes the GOP is kleptocracy. Increasingly, it is a kleptokakistocracy.
Makes sense. After you deport all the farm workers, you need someone to do the harvesting, and Mrs. Wilson's second grade class is right there having circle time.
But we have the money to "buy" Greenland and to provide 8 months severance pay to 2 million Federal workers to leave their jobs. This Administration is disgusting as is McCormich.
He’s a doctor from a wealthy district in GA and has 7 children and 2 ex wives. Now he’s with his new partner Republican Rep Beth Van Duyne from TX. Obviously he is heartless and cruel which are a must for MAGARepublicans
Sure the 9 year old daughter of a working poor family in West Virginia should get a job to pay for her own school lunch. Sounds about right coming from a sociopathic republican.
People need to realize that the concept of a childhood was an invention of the prior mid-century & that the rw's pushing of the Overton Window means to change society's acceptance of that concept & view children as having been made "soft" by it. Thereby opening up a new range of workers to exploit.
I think these despicable remarks of McCormick must be coming from a training session at the Doral where the Republican Party is meeting.
An aside; a great deal of money hitting the Trump coffers as he owns the Doral.
Grifting as usual
No. It should never be used. Especially when there are better words and phrases. In fact, my “retarded” cousin, who lives in an ARC facility and who votes in every election, calls him an Asshole.
#BeLikePam
Somebody please tell this idiot that the jobs he held as a child are now being held by adults who are trying to support families on those subpar wahes!
Richy Rich thinks children should be working, not getting free lunch at school? This jerk needs to be working instead of surviving on his government job.
seriously every headline i read I'm just like..... lol ok.
obviously the actions that come from these ridiculous people have devastating affects on me and the ones I love, but my only response to headlines right now is lol
this man just said "fuck feedin' them kids, PUT'EM TO WORK"-- lol sir
McCormick is justifying his corporate mentality of taking from struggling American families so he can give even more gov't subsidies to rich corporations & rich donors @thedemcoalition.bsky.social
They're deporting anyone who doesn't look like them. Arkansas lets a 9 year old work in a factory.
Where do you think the new labor is going to come from?
He has 3 sons - is he will to put them to work in a factory or field?
If they're so concerned about people mooching off the government, I know some fossil fuel companies who are getting a lot more taxpayer money -- each -- than all the school kids in the US combined...
Literally every thing else in a school is provided at no cost to the children. Do these dipshits realize that everything in a school costs money?? Or do they just hate children?
McCormick is typical corporate Republican using harsh capitalism on poor & middle class struggling American families so he take from them & give even more gov't subsidies to rich corporations & rich donors
wtf is wrong with this world :/ 14 and 15 is just too young to work... in my line of work they wouldn't even be considered to be professional enough to work with people who have mental illnesses, etc.
Is he for real!? School lunch may be the only meal some children get. You are an entitled idiot. Look at reality. Are you suggesting 10 year old kids get a job!!
What is wrong with these people?
Are they actually so stupid that they don’t even know what is going on around them?
We’re now at a point where we want kids to work instead of getting an education?
These elected officials are supposed to be working for we the people not the idiot conman!
Para que quieren estudiar y recibir comida en los colegios pudiendo trabajar desde los 5 años en el macdonald y ahí les dan las hamburguesas que quieran, previo pago de las mismas
As a town, we voted to give kids free breakfast and lunch before the pandemic. Then the entire state did it. I sat on the board of dir for a children's charity aimed mostly at hunger and it's an issue, even some middle-income kids are malnourished because they are neglected. You can't learn hungry.
That's the point. They don't want them to learn. They want them uneducated and stuck in low wage jobs to sacrifice themselves to their god of capitalism.
That's great! I'm not sure if they are still offering free meals in the summer (they were during Covid) but the charity I sat on the board for exists for that purpose as well. They do a lot of things but getting kids a good dinner as well is chief among them.
This also should come as no surprise given Huckabee Sanders relaxatin of child labor laws in Arkansas as the model. And we aren't just talking a shift at McDonalds, we are talking about dangerous jobs at warehouses and meat packing plants.
WTF is wrong with these people? Does this maga moron even know what he is talking about?
The National School Lunch Program provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day. It was established by President Harry Truman in 1946.
They're incapable of caring about anything besides themselves, they'll happily let every child starve to death to fund their billionaire tax cuts. They're psychopaths.
I'm assuming the district doesn't have a lot of kids? Typically it's the old fuckers who don't want to contribute to the younger generations. Good luck when they need elderly services....morons.
This is the wealthiest district in Georgia. Many families with young children. All they care about are Trump tax breaks. They are not interested in helping the disadvantaged.
Pardon my French, but UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE. We have enough fun money to buy Greenland, but not enough money to make sure children do not go hungry? Trump and all you fake "Christians" who voted for him: Go to hell, go directly to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
These type of people, this Rep in particular are an absolute cancer on American Society. Meanwhile countries providing free HEALTHY lunches are beating the hell out of us in education.
A millionaire lawmaker telling kids to get a job to afford lunch. These Republicans have lost touch with average Americans, but keep getting elected. The Democrats messaging needs to be overhauled to recapture the attention of blue collar voters.
I work at a school. We all know that you need good food in order to fuel your brain so that you can learn. He’s a doctor so there’s no excuse for him suggesting that poor kids don’t need food too. The whole idea of this is disgusting.
I thought we were done with child labor in 1938. So we all know now, that GOP is trying to take us back almost 87 years. Infact.... we were in the middle of The Great Depression. So ironic.
This pos scumbag wouldn’t know a honest days work. Perhaps we should lower the salary and amount of healthcare these politicians make. Plus make our billionaire president pay for his own golf trips
It's not to see where the money is being spent. It's to see which cuts get the most push back. Pauses on those will be lifted, probably with deep cuts, and the money will be diverted to ICE.
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You really should have.
One day you will arm and do \away with these vile Satanic criminals. I suggest you start sooner rather than later.
He probably wants some of them on a corner instead of school.
Subjugation and harm is all they have for us.
https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com/post/3lgt3ujenvs2m
AREN’T THEY PUNCHING BACK UNTIL THIS TRUST FUND BABY CRIES!
In this one the best we can hope for is an election loss.
An aside; a great deal of money hitting the Trump coffers as he owns the Doral.
Grifting as usual
It seems things will not be going back to the relative normality we had so far.
How can ANYONE defend not providing lunch programs to our youngest in HeadStart & school aged children.
Hungry children can't learn!!!!
(Retired SpEd & K teacher)
Attempting to use it as a noun is nonsensical and only makes people wonder if you are a bad person.
Better?
The point is not how you perceive yourself, but how you represent yourself.
If you care what others think and how others feel, you won't use it as a noun.
Just stop using "retard" as a noun - it belittles you.
Take care; bye now.
#BeLikePam
Although I would absolutely check any food I bought from a McDs at which he worked to ensure it had been cooked and didn't contain his hairs.
The GOP. Probably.
obviously the actions that come from these ridiculous people have devastating affects on me and the ones I love, but my only response to headlines right now is lol
this man just said "fuck feedin' them kids, PUT'EM TO WORK"-- lol sir
Where do you think the new labor is going to come from?
He has 3 sons - is he will to put them to work in a factory or field?
Republicans are literally telling poor children
"Let them eat cake."
#Fakechristan
Pro-life my arse!!!
Maybe all kids should work for lunch…
Forget them books…
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/10/1162531885/arkansas-child-labor-law-under-16-years-old-sarah-huckabee-sanders
Are they actually so stupid that they don’t even know what is going on around them?
We’re now at a point where we want kids to work instead of getting an education?
These elected officials are supposed to be working for we the people not the idiot conman!
Spew trump rhetoric at every turn
Or spend hours on your knees sucking trumps penis ?
No one complains. In fact nearly the whole town turns out for lunch pickup in the summer, a lovely time that connects the community.
The National School Lunch Program provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day. It was established by President Harry Truman in 1946.
https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp
I also crochet, paint, digital art, sew! Probably more that I’m forgetting.
READ Matthew 25: 31-46
And it's time to consider eating the rich.