Kingston Wants Poor Students to Sweep Floors for Lunch

Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) proposed that “low-income children do some manual labor in exchange for their subsidized meals,” the Huffington Post reports.

Said Kingston: “Why don’t you have the kids pay a dime, pay a nickel to instill in them that there is, in fact, no such thing as a free lunch? Or maybe sweep the floor of the cafeteria — and yes, I understand that that would be an administrative problem, and I understand that it would probably lose you money. But think what we would gain as a society in getting people — getting the myth out of their head that there is such a thing as a free lunch.”