Letters: Starve toddlers who don’t work?

Is the “lesson” we are supposed to learn from Robert J. Buechler’s Jan. 12 letter (“Division is between doers and takers”) that we should treat our fellow humans like wild animals?

Many of the free meals our tax dollars provide feed children; at what age does he suggest they should begin work?

In Victorian England, children as young as 3 or 4 labored or starved. Perhaps he has a chimney that needs cleaning?