Letter to the Editor; Rep says poor kids should work for their school lunch??

To the Editor:

Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) recently proposed that low-income pupils need to work for their school lunch. Really?

Punishing children for being poor is a new low for many members of Congress, Kingston among them. I wonder if they think that cutting food stamps, school lunches, Meals on Wheels, and the safety net for poor women, children, infants, veterans, the elderly and disabled makes them better representatives, caring people, more Christ-like?

I don’t hear these same members of Congress punishing the 936 companies, corporations, and banks that got a TARP bailout to th...