Michele Bachmann.  Oh yeah, you need me to say more?

She wants to put the refugee children in labor camps.  No, no, no, I am not kidding.

Labor camps.  Damn, woman.

She even has it all worked out.

And we’d get private sector business leaders to locate to those facilities and give these children low-risk jobs to do. And they’d learn about the American way of life, earn their keep, and everyone wins in the end.”

Yeah, slave labor – the basis for “the American way of life.”  What the hell is a “low risk job” that a seven or eight year old can do?  Huh?  You want those kids assembling transistor radios or something?  Or maybe polishing Marcus’s shoes?

Conservative radio host Jason Lewis asked Bachmann about the camps, and what life might be like for the children sent to them. “Well, we’d of course want these facilities to be ideal, you know, for the children to work and learn. They’d spend half of their day working, and the other half learning what every child should learn, and that’s English, you know, English and American history. And as soon as they learn English with some degree of fluency, they can attend local schools, maybe with a voucher program, or something like that. And then they could work when they aren’t in school.”

So I guess piano lessons are out, huh?  Tell me, Michele, are these kids gonna cook their own meals and do their own laundry, too?  Will they be supervised in some manner or just let their corporate overlords whip them into shape?

Can we deport Michele Bachman.  No, no, no, I’m serious.  Can we?

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

 UPDATE:  I’ve been punked.  Again, dammit.  This is the second time I’ve been punked by a satire story because it’s just too damn hard to tell satire with Republicans.  This story ain’t true.  However, Michele Bachmann is.