Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores

Daily Caller ^ | April 25, 2012 | Patrick Richardson

[MrB]

Podcast on this topic from a great speaker, biblical worldview:

http://generationswithvision.com/broadcast/obama-administration-threatening-family-farms/

[JSDude1]

How are they going to enforce this..

I for one would ignore it!

[Road Glide]

“I don’t know nor can I conceive of any farm or ranch families that will take this seriously.”

They’ll START taking such things “seriously” when Department of Agriculture SWAT teams show up on their properties...

And no, I’m NOT kidding.

Remember that Amish farmer that had a team of agents swoop down on him .... for selling raw milk?

[Road Glide]

“The sooner a child is introduced to it, the better...even if they’re only pushing a Lil’ Tykes red plastic mower around the yard while Dad is cutting the grass.”

Funny you mention this.

Wait until the Department of Labor issues regulations that ban kids under 18 from operating lawnmowers, “for their own protection”, of course...

[FreeAtlanta]

When I was 13 I was driving the family tractor. These people are power hungry, destructive, nuts.

[Road Glide]

“If they pass enough stupid, intrusive, nonsensical laws they will ultimately be able to control all of us, as we will all unwittingly become criminals. It will then be up to the government to decide what laws they will enforce and which people they will prosecute. If you get out of line, they will find a law you have broken and get at you in that way.”

This has been posted before, but worth reading again:
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them...you create a nation of lawbreakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Rearden.”
Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”

[FreeAtlanta]

I remember reading where the Russians would station soldiers at farms to prevent harvesting. The Democrat/Communist are well on their way to do the same thing. Control the food and energy, control the people.

LIBERals are LIBERTY Killers. Stop using the soft and fuzzy word LIBERal and call them communists or leftists.

[RedMonqey]

Then the “inspector” would have to prove somehow that the activity is not play, which would be pretty hard if the child insisted that it was and that he was having fun.

The government man doesn't have to prove anything.Once charged, its up to the farmer to prove he's "not guilty"

We had some run ins the feds for selling "non inspected meat"(fresh and smoked sausages that we eat ourselves)

He confiscated some of our supply(luckily it was near the end of our sales and we didn't show him our freezer of fresh sausages) and gave us a warning. To contest it was more costly than what it was worth so we let it slide

For the next year we kept our roadside sign down and just sold it to our regular costumers.

Haven't had a problem since... Ssssssh! Its a secret!!!!

[X-spurt]

Maybe “some” of the bonehead farmers that voted for nobama will finally see the handwriting on the wall.

Am no political campaign smarty, but it sure seems like the dems are rushing to do lots of things that will gen up votes to throw them out. Reverse psychology doesn't look appropriate here. They must really be having a tussel getting their lib vote out to resort to tossing them these marxist bones.

[dfwgator]

As the “technology trap” closes tighter and tighter on us, we are truly going to be screwed because soon there will be few people who will actually know how to cope with the SHTF. Society will breakdown in a matter of hours.

[GOPJ]

The next law will be to make farm kids totally useless to themselves and others... with the ideal happening when they wear their pants halfway down their butts, have gold teeth and flash mob 7/11 ‘s. Yeah, let’s go with the ‘winnahs’....

[reformedliberal]

They already do surprise inspections of CRP land. Any complaint and they tell you that you signed a contract and can only get out of it by paying back all the monies received to date. Most farmers participate in some sort of government program. All of these are contractual. They will use this to justify snooping on your land.

Also, kids talk. Someone will find out and there are nannies in every community. You would be lucky to only have to answer for child labor laws. In some instances, they could sic the CPS folks on a family.

Don’t forget the new use of drones to spy on Americans. You ignore them at your peril. There are fines and they can just take money out of your accounts or put liens on your property.

This is so destructive. Back in the day, kids out here earned their spending money/shoe money/college money tasseling corn, walking bean fields to spot the rouges, and even working in tobacco farming, which includes some dangerous jobs. Every Spring, entire families would go out to the pastures to pull mustard before the dairy cows could eat it. This was actually a bonding activity, where all generations joined in, followed by a family picnic or BBQ.

I agree that it is anti-family, anti-work ethic and aimed at decreasing the number of generational farmers.