This Stalinist apparatchik must be purged
“The Department of Labor did not respond to repeated requests for comment.”
You must obey.
I suspect the motivation for this stupid thing is to make American farmers even more reliant on illegal labor. Has nothing whatsoever to do with protecting children.
That is insane! These people are absolutely nuts, they have to stop them before they totally destroy this country.
More governmental intrusion in areas where they have NO business, IMO. The American farming family has done just fine without Big Bro’s intrusions on what the kids can or cannot do. Kids growing up on farms know they have chores, and guess what, they grow to be some of our most productive citizens (just my opinion). We can’t have that now, can we?
FUBO
All you need is the government!
If people don't see the total & utter destruction that is happening piece by piece in America, they're blind.
God help us all.
I have never met an OSHA inspector who thought that kids working on the farm was OK.
“And in my view, if the federal government can regulate the kind of relationship between parents and their children on their own family’s farm, there is almost nothing off-limits in which we see the federal government intruding in a way of life.”
Exactly. These bastards won’t stop until they are controlling everything that goes in or out of our eyes, minds, and bodies.
This is full-out war on what America is all about. Everything about this foreign enemy combatant in the White House is geared toward destroying the fabric of this nation and turning it into bottom-feeding scum.
....farmers could soon find The Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division inspectors on their land, citing them for violations.....
I can say that in a lot of states this will effect there is a lot of empty ground, in out of the way places that “DOL Wage and Hour Division inspectors” could get “lost” in trying to reach farms/ranches to enforce this law. West Texas, parts of Idaho, Montana. This just plain stupid.
The oppressive federal government has to keep teenagers from helping on their family farms “as soon as August.” After all, illegal aliens are looking for work or they’ll go back to Mexico and the Democrats will be deprived of their votes in November.
There will be hell to pay in farm country when the pencil pushers come out to check on this outrageous rule. Democrat legislators will be thrown out of office in rural districts.
Typical top-down meddling from this crowd; google the depression-era Schecter Brothers from Brooklyn for an amusing look at this kind of thing.
The feds will just take their union dues directly out of the farmers' bank accounts to make it convenient for everyone.
SWAT teams will be raiding farms, shackling parents, burning barns/farmhouses, shooting the animals, salting the fields, shipping the kids off to re-education camps where they’ll be forced to do communal hard labor.
Why do people even bother trying to follow these “laws” anymore.
Be like the illegals.. overwhelm them with non compliance.
Just like the illegals.. they cant arrest everyone!
I would like to know why these “inspectors” are allowed on these farms. Are people fined if they don’t let them on their property? This is a serious question, because I would think that the “inspectors” would be trespassing if people don’t want them there. We have a fence and a gate that clearly says “No Trespassing,” and we don’t open the gate for just anyone.
That said, if the “inspectors” do show up, the parents and children could just explain that they are not “working,” they are “playing.” 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.
This is absurd. Some of the most mature and responsible kids I have ever known throughout my life have been kids raised on farms.
When I was a LOT younger (and less mature) I used to snobbishly look down my city kid nose at rural kids raised on family farms. Then I got to know them.
I have NEVER met a farm kid who was lazy, dumb or immature. I’ve NEVER met one who needed the government to shelter them from the chores they have as part of the family farm. Sure, like city kids, they would rather play video games or watch junk on TV but, the obligations of the farm keep them grounded and give them tools that most city kids lack.
This is the attack that the Obama Administration is launching on farm kids. They are attacking kids who will be tomorrow’s leaders because of their maturity and responsibility. If farm chores were such a big issue, why are 4H clubs thriving??