Recently I've put up a couple of posts about regulatory nonsense oozing out of the obama administration's numerous and varied orifices (here and here). Now we have this latest piece of cow manure (literally).
A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.You've got to be kidding me! Kids can no longer work on the family farm? What genius came up with that idea? Oh yeah - Hilda Solis ("A former four-term California congresswoman, Solis is President Obama's Labor secretary. An opponent of free trade, she is a pro-union voice in the cabinet...).
The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.
Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.”
The new regulations, first proposed August 31 by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, would also revoke the government’s approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA, replacing them instead with a 90-hour federal government training course.Oh my aching back. Groups that have been around for decades composed of people who actually work on farms can no longer train farm workers? But the government - the friggin' government, which can't find its asshole with two hands, a roadmap, and a flashlight - is going to require a training course that takes more than two weeks? Words fail me.
Rossie Blinson, a 21-year-old college student from Buis Creek, N.C., told The Daily Caller that the federal government’s plan will do far more harm than good.My grandkids both showed sheep via the FFA for the first time this year. I heartily second Mr. Blinson's comment about learning responsibility. They definitely improved their skills in that area, along with several others. It was a great educational experience for them, as well as being personally fulfilling (Well, up until the sheep got auctioned off. The granddaughter shed a few tears then.)
“The main concern I have is that it would prevent kids from doing 4-H and FFA projects if they’re not at their parents’ house,” said Blinson.
“I started showing sheep when I was four years old. I started with cattle around 8. It’s been very important. I learned a lot of responsibility being a farm kid.”
In Kansas, Cherokee County Farm Bureau president Jeff Clark was out in the field — literally on a tractor — when TheDC reached him. He said if Solis’s regulations are implemented, farming families’ labor losses from their children will only be part of the problem.Or just the values of working.
“What would be more of a blow,” he said, “is not teaching our kids the values of working on a farm.”
Which seems to be what obama's Department of Labor is trying to prevent
Working, that is...
Now contrast the above chart ("During the Obama Administration") with the one below ("During the Reagan Administration". Which one gives us the greater Hope?
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I heard that this was a union law that the United Farmwokers have been trying ti get passed so farmers will hire more union members.
Absolute horse shit, pardon the pun, but what is wrong with kids learning how to work the farm, what their reward will be for all the hard work, and a jumps start on their own careers whatever they may choose....because they have a work ethic that will be second to none! Unlike say....union janitors in New York that make more than most teachers.
Wouldn't surprise me that the unions were trying to move in on the farms. We all know that unions are allergic to hard work and personal responsibility.
Just read they have withdrawn the proposal. Isn't it amazing how quickly things can get yanked in an election year?
Complete B.S. My grandparents raised 8 kids on a farm. All of us grandkids first learned to drive on the farm - usually a tractor or grain truck alongside the combine. Many of my family still farm. You want to impress my city kids? Watch their faces as their 10-year old cousin deftly castrates a calf without blinking an eye. The lessons learned about life, death, meaningful decision and hard work on a farm can't be beat.
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EEOC Directive 14,367,492
Jewish and Christian Parents May no longer take their kids to religious services without first obtaining authorization from a Federal Court or local Muhla authorized to notarize such authoirzations under Sharia Law.
This Directive IAW Presidential Decree 666,666,666 signed by Pres. BHObama, Friday, 13 April 2012.
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Harper - hadn't heard that, but I hope you're right.
Pascvaks - don't give them any ideas.
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