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Lawmaker suggests blatantly unlawful activity?
Oh, it's Idaho, the Alabama of the west coast.
These people are insane monsters. >

They're really picking up speed at turning parental choices and responsibilities into governmental mandates. >

But at least they'll be able to take a gun to school to exercise their anger and hopelessness!
/s >

Making children work to 'earn credits' to eat? This person should not be a state representative. >

he's barely a person. mostly a haphazard collection of right wing bumper stickers and bitterness >

How else are the rich kids gonna know who the poor kids are? >

That's exactly all that this is, too. To further humiliate & ostracize those who are victims of poverty. >

Or….we feed children because it’s what Jesus would want >

well... not Supply Side Jesus™ >

Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. Give a man high interest credit and you'll eat for a lifetime. >

Give a man an AR-15 and .... >

I did not have, “Idaho Child Labor,” on my bingo card for 2023. >

That's because it was on the 2011 bingo card.
November 21, 2011 Newt Gingrich Thinks School Children Should Work as Janitors "You say to somebody, you shouldn't go to work before you're what, 14, 16 years of age, fine," Mr. Gingrich said. "You're totally poor. You're in a school that is failing with a teacher that is failing. I've tried for years to have a very simple model. Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work, they would have cash, they would have pride in the schools, they'd begin the process of rising." >

These horrible garbage people make me wish I believed in hell. >

You actually already died, and are presently in hell >

The last few years have been so fucked that for the first time in my life I actually wondered to myself whether it was somehow possible that I'd died and didn't know it. >

I think I might believe that the rapture has actually already happened. The few good people there were are gone, and we are the left behind. >

Wow Idaho.  
I didn’t think it possible to lower my opinion of Idaho, but then surprise!  Proposing child labor for hungry children.. that did it. >

Not all of us are like this hollow-headed twat waffle. There are good people here in Idaho. (And great fly-fishing, hiking, camping, and winters that'll freeze your balls off.) >

My sister lives in Idaho and she’s a good person so there are at least two of you in the state >

What a fucking piece of shit garbage human. >

So... you want children to work as laborers?  
That sounds a lot like child labor.  That's kind of illegal.
Maybe try raising effective tax levels on the top 1% of capital gains earners instead. >

We know where the Republicans stand on child labor:
The Trump Administration Moves to Roll Back Child Labor Rules and Expose Teen Workers to Hazardous Jobs
Republicans want to roll back child labor laws >

There is a proposed bill before the iowa house that will allow children ages 14-17 to work in such places as mines, meat packing plants and rendering facilities.  AND it shields employers from liability if said child is injured, maimed or killed on the job. I wish I was joking about this 😐 >

Welcome to Oliver Twist, America. >

it's rare that we find an idea that's as equally stupid as it is bad and cruel. >

Is it? Seems like SOP for the GOP. >

so, advocating for child labor is where were at now. at this rate we're about 6 months away from the call to reinstate indentured servitude. what a time to be alive >

Indentured servitude is still legal. Read section one of the 13th amendment. >

Coughmilitarycough >

Lol… coming from a veteran, it sometimes felt like indentured servitude. 
I was referring to the incarcerated people of America though. Thirteenth amendment carves out a stipulation that indentured servitude is ok as long as it’s a punishment for crime. >

It’s hard to say what they hate more, schools or poor children. >

Schools... definitely schools. Anywhere anything other than their churchy belief system is taught or accepted. Simply being open-minded, polite, and respectful to those around you is an infringement on their absolute given right to be assholes to anyone they choose. >

Will someone think of the children ... and all the free labor you can put to use. Smells like unregulated capitalism. Just like Jesus wanted. >

If youre still voting republican, there is something seriously wrong with you. There is to much evidence out there that shows republicans are tanking society >

What the fuck is wrong with Republicans? They're all extremely sick fucks. >

Sounds like this guy needs some yard work done. >

There's a part of humanity having this huge boner of make other peoples lives more complicated. Like it's their some sort of taboo duty as a human piece of shit and saddly half of the world agrees on it. >

No one ought to vote for any Republican for any office - city, county, state, or federal - until this entire fascist generation of Republicans is completely purged and all the damage that they have done has been repaired. >

I can't believe I just fucking read this in 2023. >

Republicans are sadists. >

Idahoan here. Literally all of our legislators and representatives are this fucking stupid. Like the one who said women can swallow cameras to see if they're pregnant. >

Just remember: these lawmaker cranks are backed by thousands of voters - - many of whom think the crankiness is a selling point. Seriously, this idiocy says a lot about him but it says even more about his constituents. >

“Just a few years in the coal mines bro, that’s it. It’s safe now bro, I swear. We’re just trying to teach them responsibility, bro. C’mon bro just a few kids in the mines. Just to see how it feels, bro.” >

"Children worked in the mines for centuries, now they just play Minecraft.  Clearly, they yearn for the mines.  Who are we to stop them?" >

As a parent, this got me. Legit snort. >

He would REALLY hate it here in Nevada where we actually give elementary aged children free school breakfast AND (gasp) lunch. Oh, the humanity… >

It's 2023, and these MF's dusting off the 1923 political playbook for ideas. >

Don't they start school at like 5:15 am in Idaho as well? Man, poor kids.
I bet this guy is all pro-life, but fuck them as soon as they're born. Got to get working and slaving away as soon as they are old enough to tie their own shoes. >

Such a compassionate approach.
Voltaire:

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. >

I detest people like him. I can't even really call him a human as he lacks compassion. How about the wealthy start paying their share? >

These fiscal conservatives will never stop being insulted by the thought of a few of their tax dollars going to feed someone else’s child. >

Idaho is where they send you to train for Afghanistan. >

Lack of empathy + ignorance = conservatives >

Oh look old rich man who suggest children work for their money because if they don’t work for it, they will squander it… puts himself in position to squander funds for others by denying $6 million in federal money to working parents.

He also joined like-minded legislators in opposing a $6 million federal early education grant intended for working parents with children aged 5 and under >

It's not like this would affect private school kids, or kids who can afford to eat lunch. It's just the children of the poors that would be enslaved. >

When my son was in third grade, he was put on Ritalin by his doctor because he was ADD. We weren’t allowed to put his mid day pill in his lunch box because it was the school’s policy that only the nurse could give out medication. So at lunchtime, all the ADD kids would be rounded up and paraded down to the nurse’s office in front of the other kids. He felt so humiliated that he didn’t want to take it anymore. Imagine rounding up all the poor kids to work for their lunch. How terribly cruel. >

QUICK! Back to the Gilded Age! >

We need to organize and fight this dumb shit , it's obvious at this point that pushing crazy shit is their normal, not an aberration.  This... This right here is how you get fascism. >

This man may be the worlds greatest Ahole. He should avoid laying down in public. People may try to use him as a traffic tunnel. >

Put their parents to work, put their dogs to work and unborn children to work >

We were warned that the GQP would make child labor legal again. >

So let’s make the gap larger between students who are well off and the students whose families struggle. 
I really hate so many things about this country. >

Also known as "Oliver Twist 2023". >

With the free lunch program running out now, how many kids will have to become artful dodgers just to get a meal now? There's no telling. >

Protect those fetuses by any means neccessary.
Once they're out of the womb... let 'em starve if they can't afford to pay. >

The party of "small government and protecting kids" wants to *checks notes* put children to work for the state? >

There’s plenty of that ahead of them. Maybe they could concentrate on learning? >

Why can't we just feed the fucking kids. He must be walkin cuz he sure ain't runnin. >


But as someone with a 100 percent rating from the American Conservative Union Foundation, Mendive is not a man constrained by reason.

Couldn't have said it better myself >

What is so crazy is that he can have a 100% rating from a conservative group, yet people will still yell about how Democrats has gone too far to the "left". 
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Centrists will still attack Democrats, but they won't say anything about this extremist Republican. >

I was gonna post a quote from the article about this guy, but there's so much there, I can't narrow it down. He's nuttier than a fruitcake. I wonder if his wife has to help him get dressed so he doesn't put his shoes on the wrong feet and wear his jacket inside-out. >

Oh you’re going to bring back vocational training? /s but I wish it wasn’t >

So slave labor.  Got it. >

"  He has also declared that if you support abortion rights, that means you also support prostitution—as both are “a woman’s choice.”  "  
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I mean, sure, I'm ok with that. >

It takes all of two seconds to realize how fucking awful an idea it is to have children from poor homes or just children with shitty parents being required to work in front of their peers from wealthy or stable homes just to get something to eat. Two fucking seconds. >

Child slavery.  Republicans are calling for child slavery. >

the vast majority of our politicians are narcissistic sociopaths so I'd bet good money that this grown adult would lose his fuckin' mind and have a full-blown diaper tantrum if his staff very politely asked him to walk down the hall and grab his own lunch delivery tomorrow >

Can we stop electing dinosaurs into power please. Grandpa needs to have his keys taken away not given actual power to affect lives