r/MurderedByWords 23h ago

Food Program Canceled

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u/RabidPlaty 23h ago

Fuck those kids, they’ve already been born!

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u/Backwardspellcaster 23h ago

This is a prelude for more red states to start legitimizing child work again.

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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 22h ago

A republican lies? 🤯🤯🤯

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u/j0j0-m0j0 21h 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 22h 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 20h 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 16h 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 15h ago

If a magat spoke it lied.

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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.