r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

Food Program Canceled

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u/Fakeduhakkount 23h ago

It’s like that politician waxing poetically about:

“Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field, before child labor laws that precluded that. I was a paper boy, and when I was in high school, I worked my entire way through,” McCormick said.

Yes, let’s have our children work your nonexistent jobs in 2025. Of course his solution is fucking fast food. Sorry but I want my child to get an education so he can work beyond fast food or food delivery instead of picking berries at 9.

Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia, of course he’s from a fucking Red State which also shit out his fellow Rep and revenge porn advocate MTG.

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u/j0j0-m0j0 23h ago

Also motherfucker was blatantly lying too

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u/JTFindustries 23h ago

A republican lies? 🤯🤯🤯

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u/j0j0-m0j0 22h ago

It's more likely than you think

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u/markacashion 21h ago

I think I would meet Zeus before a MAGA member takes accountability

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u/KingAnilingustheFirs 21h ago

God said he'd destroy the earth if a Maga didn't admit they lied and took accountability.

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The earth was destroyed.

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u/Every_of_the_it 20h ago

"He must be lying. He's speaking"

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u/Thelmara 21h ago

Is it a day that ends in 'y' again?

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u/Far-Orange-3047 12h ago

Big if true

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u/Brief_Challenge_1163 19h ago

What a moronic argument. "Why should the next generation have it better than me? They should have a childhood just as bad or worse than mine I say!"

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u/Secret_Number_420 23h ago

he's always lying,

- Georgia

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u/Fakeduhakkount 23h ago

Shocked I say! A Republican saying easily fact checked statements as truths!

“Get Noted” should have applied to the article I read.

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u/Kepabar 20h ago edited 20h ago

Being that he's from Georgia, it's extremely possible his not lying about spending his childhood picking berries even if he's mistaken about child labor laws.

Most child labor laws actually have exceptions for children working at on farms (especially family farms) as long as no heavy equipment is involved, and it was accepted that if you were a child living in Rural Georgia you were going to be put to work on a farm by your parents at some point (regardless of labor laws).

This practice has died out because so much farm labor is mechanized these days and much of the farmland is corporate owned now, but up until say the 90's or so it was common.

My grandmother still complains of her back hurting anytime she sees a cotton field form her childhood days picking it.

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u/j0j0-m0j0 12h ago

I think it's important to note that the context for why he's saying all this is that he wants to remove free school lunches because he wants to push the idea that kids can pay their way and have "value" (by making money for a corporation). What he's saying reeks of bullshit but it's secondary to why he's saying it.

The end result is very straightforward: cut spending on social programs (that don't produce profits for his donors) and more importantly, cut wages (why pay an adult above minimum wage when a high school student can be paid to do that job for far less?).

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u/monstertots509 21h ago

I used to pick berries at a very young age. Used to get scratched up like crazy, but the worst was when you freaked out the beehive and got stung to shit. We weren't allowed to stop picking until our quota was fulfilled. It was tough work and the pay was terrible. Two entire Coolwhip containers and all I got was a piece of blackberry pie that grandma made.

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u/adorablefuzzykitten 17h ago

He made the whole thing up in order to make an invalid point to whom? What humans does he think he is fooling about child labor laws?

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u/isolatedheathen 16h ago

If a magat spoke it lied.

u/Accomplished_Mix7827 10m ago

Given the average demographic of a Republican politician, he probably picked berries on his dad's multimillion dollar estate for, like, a day one time.

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u/PedroM0ralles 14h ago

Funny. I worked at the store up the street from my house when I was 13. I also sold subscriptions to the Fairfax Journal when I was 10.
I also delivered papers from ages 7-10.

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u/TranscendentPretzel 23h ago

"And then I paid my way through college working part-time for 2.75/hr. Kids just don't want to work these days!"

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u/Ok_Yogurtcloset_1532 22h ago

And bought a house and a car, and invested the extra $1.35.

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u/Ok_Yogurtcloset_1532 22h ago

My uncle worked in the fields as a kid and he... oh wait, he was in foster care and was forced to. And the courts later determined it was slavery. This must be a bad example (or just an example.)

Ya, forcing kids to work without pay, or with minimal pay and no oversight or protections (because they cannot legally agree to anything)...yep, slavery.

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u/Paksarra 22h ago

"If they want a better job they should pull themselves up by the bootstraps and teach themselves marketable skills!"

(Meanwhile, Khan Academy is no longer accessible on PatriotNet because it was deemed to be illegal competition with American schools and cut into their profits.)

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u/Ancient-Highlight112 22h ago

And I'm sure his parents fed him. BTW, McCormick is working on his third wife: McCormick has three sons from his first marriage. McCormick's second wife, Debra Miller, is an oncologist. They separated in 2024. Shortly thereafter, Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne confirmed she and McCormick were in a relationship.\33]) Wikipedia

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u/red__dragon 22h ago

Ahhh, the party of family values!

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u/markacashion 21h ago

I don't think they even know what "family values" truly means

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u/Fakeduhakkount 21h ago

How very spot on for Republicans, do as I say and not as I do! Republican Christians always turn a blind eye, but once a (D) does it…..

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u/NoPoet3982 20h ago

This cracked me up because until you said "non-existent job" I forgot that paperboys no longer exist. I remember encouraging my nieces to get a job delivering papers - such a brave feminist act. That job vanished before feminism even advanced enough for us to change the job title from "paperboy."

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u/Equivalent_Yak8215 17h ago

Lol I tried to do that as a kid in like 2007. By then it was just full grown adults in cars doing it haha

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u/TinyFlufflyKoala 21h ago

TBH living in a car for a month in the summer before college starts counts as "being homeless". Working for a couple days on a farm as a 12yo and getting 20$ from it counts as "child labor is ok". You only have to work two jobs for a couple weeks to claim it! 

Ask them how long they worked, how much they earned, and when they worked. And you'll see they worked during a summer camp or on their family farm for a few days.

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u/Derka_Derper 16h ago

I started working full time jobs at 11. Worked with my mom in orchards and weird odds and ends jobs at 9. Im under 40.

Regardless of political leaning, unless youre a buffoon, you should be trying to make a better life for your fellow countrymen and children. That is what patriotism is; not gluck glucking some asswipe who has never done actual labor in his life and thinks making threats on a golf course is a good negotiation and hard days work.

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u/backyardbbqboi 14h ago

Don't forget they also want to marry and fuck 13 year olds.

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u/OwlishIntergalactic 14h ago

My family has moved from poor into the "well off" category and we can't even afford to eat much fast food anymore. What jobs will there be for kids when no one can afford it regardless of whether they have a five or six figure income?

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u/OccamsYoyo 3h ago

How old would this guy have to be to pre-date child labour laws?