Rep Jack Kingston (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Jim Newell

Rep. Jack Kingston seems to be the least crazy of the various House Republicans running to replace retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss in Georgia. Why? Ha, I don’t really know; he got into some sort of fight with Real Conservatives recently for suggesting it wouldn’t be “responsible” to “let Obamacare fall to pieces on its own.” Sometimes he goes on annoying liberal TV shows. Mostly, he’s not Rep. Paul Broun, who is nuts.

Anyway, not-Paul-Braun had a really awful idea the other day! It involves poor children and lunch. Children from families below 130 percent of the federal poverty line can receive free school lunches, children from families between 130 percent and 185 percent of the FPL get reduced prices. This disturbs Jack Kingston, and he believes something must be done.

But on Saturday, Kingston came out against free lunches, saying that children should have to pay at least a nominal amount or do some work like sweeping cafeteria floors.

“But one of the things I’ve talked to the secretary of agriculture about: Why don’t you have the kids pay a dime, pay a nickel to instill in them that there is, in fact, no such thing as a free lunch? Or maybe sweep the floor of the cafeteria — and yes, I understand that that would be an administrative problem, and I understand that it would probably lose you money. But think what we would gain as a society in getting people — getting the myth out of their head that there is such a thing as a free lunch,” he said.

Read More Republican unveils worst school idea ever: Make poor kids clean floors – Salon.com.