Jack Kingston: “Should a grocery store employee be prohibited from bagging a turkey that weighs more than 15 pounds? Now, I have a…”

“Should a grocery store employee be prohibited from bagging a turkey that weighs more than 15 pounds? Now, I have a family of four, so if I can find a 15 pound turkey, I am going to buy it. Now, my wife can pick up a 15 pound turkey because she has been picking up four children. Most kids quickly get to be in excess of 15 pounds. But let us just think this through. Libby Kingston goes to the Piggly-Wiggly to buy the 15 pound turkey and she lifts it up; yet the 18-year-old football player from Savannah High School, Johnny Simmons, cannot lift it from the cashier to the bag. Maybe we need to install forklifts at all the Piggly-Wigglys so that we can get those 15 pound turkeys into the bags so that the mamas can pick them right up and carry them and put them into the SUVs. Another question. Should hospitals and nursing home employees be restricted in their ability to help lift patients from their bed? I have an employee right now whose father, very sadly, has suffered a stroke, and he needs assistance when he goes to the bathroom. Now, under these rules it is no problem, all an employee has to do is say, Well, you are on your own. We know you had your stroke, but, good luck, sorry, I am on break right now. That is what these rules do.”