Rep. Frank Antenori isn't busy enough balancing the budget? I thought only desperate politicians turn on the weak.

Why not do something meaningful, like propose his fellow lawmakers give-up their salaries and health insurance during this economic meltdown and put it toward education? Oh yeah, that's right. They'd probably want to send it to school tuition organizations.

Maybe this is part of a full-employment plan for the police and courts, or perhaps maybe he’s just doing satire, like Jonathon Swift’s A Modest Proposal.

From Mr. Swift:

I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of the hundred and twenty thousand children already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one-fourth part to be males; which is more than we allow to sheep, black cattle or swine; and my reason is, that these children are seldom the fruits of marriage, a circumstance not much regarded by our savages, therefore one male will be sufficient to serve four females. That the remaining hundred thousand may, at a year old, be offered in the sale to the persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom; always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.

From Mr. Antenori, according to the morning daily:

"If you don't have enough money to buy your own food to exist for your own sustenance, and you need some other hardworking taxpayer that's out there and working and paying taxes to subsidize your food, then you shouldn't have the luxury, at the expense of some other taxpayer, to go out and enjoy the niceties in life."