That’s, uh, not what we were talking about.

Recently, the White House announced that it would be freezing federal aid for a variety of programs. This includes funding for students’ free lunches.

Now, seeing this, people on all sides of the aisle might think that children *should* be given food for free — seeing as they’re, you know, kids. However, Georgia Congressman Rich McCormick disagrees. You want to eat, kid? You gotta *work* for that money!

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

Of course, I don’t think this happened, at least not in the way that he’s implying. McCormick went to a private Catholic school, and while I’m sure he spent a summer or two tossing papers and helping some of his mom’s friends pick strawberries, I don’t think he was really relying on those jobs to feed himself.

And if he was, well, he should know how much doing that sucked (and how much someone like him would have benefited from *not* having to do that). I mean, c’mon, they’re kids — just give them food, allow them to grow up and then let them discover the crushing weight of the modern workplace.