Idaho Lawmaker Wants Children to Work for Those Free Lunches [View all]
Idaho state Rep. Ron Mendive thinks his state’s school kids should have to sweat for their pizza squares and chicken nuggets.
“If we could find a way for the students to work to earn credits for their school lunch, I don’t think we’d see any of the waste we do in that program because it doesn’t mean much,” he said during an education committee meeting on Tuesday.
Mendive did not say whether he envisioned first graders sweeping floors or wiping down tables to pay for meals. He also did not indicate how he would get around Idaho child labor laws, which say children must be at least 14 for non-agricultural work. The law is supposed to be enforced by local school boards as well as by probation officers.
But as someone with a 100 percent rating from the American Conservative Union Foundation, Mendive is not a man constrained by reason. He has also declared that if you support abortion rights, that means you also support prostitution—as both are “a woman’s choice.” He contended that it is ”a double standard” to say otherwise.
“Prostitution is a choice, more so than an abortion would be,” he added. “No one is forced into that.”
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Ain't he a fine Christian gentleman?
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