Republican congressman suggests some children receiving free school lunches should work at McDonald’s instead

He was 12 in 1980, when minimum wage was $3.10, which looks like about the equivalent of 12 bucks today. Wanna take bets on whether this asshole is for or against a minimum wage increase?

Yeah someone needs to vomit on this dude. Go eat 30-40 flapjacks at the mcds and just letter rip

And before the NLRB, the preferred method of coming to a union understanding was to get a group of like-minded coworkers to convince the boss at the end of a blunt instrument.

This guy is full of shit on that point anyway as farms get a lot of exemptions to child labor laws.

Children should have opportunities to learn work skills. They shouldn't have to rely on that to eat. Pricks

Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field, before child labor laws that precluded that.

My Russian mother is like that