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People Panicking Over an 11-Year-Old Mowing the WH Lawn Should Spend a Day on My Farm
IJR ^ | September 21,2017 | LouAnn Rieley

Posted on 09/24/2017 6:29:03 PM PDT by Hojczyk

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1 posted on 09/24/2017 6:29:03 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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My father was let out as a hired man at 12 and lived in a different state than his family and sent most of his pay home to support his siblings.


2 posted on 09/24/2017 6:31:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Hojczyk

growing up on a farm/ranch oh yeah. kids today have no idea...


3 posted on 09/24/2017 6:35:12 PM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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I was driving an 8N raking hay and cultivating at 8. Got in trouble with the cops when I drove the tractor to town to see Grandpa Hunted for meat too with my single .410 and helped milk the cows, fed the sheep when I got home from school.Kids no days have it too soft.


4 posted on 09/24/2017 6:39:53 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: Hojczyk

when i was 11, i had 6 lawns i mowed every week ($5 per lawn)

there is nothing wrong with having a kid mow the lawn... the WHITE HOUSE lawn is great for him (wonder how much he gets to mow it)

this should be ENCOURAGED... not diminished

of course, the left is opposed to anyone showing any type of leadership or entrepreneurial spirit. they want an entire country sapped of their drive and dependent on govt handouts


5 posted on 09/24/2017 6:40:06 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Hojczyk

I used to go to my Uncle’s farm in Indiana for three months every summer as a kid and through high school and did all the things your kids did...
Those who were never fortunate enough to have spent a working day on a working farm have no clue.


6 posted on 09/24/2017 6:41:00 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was learning the tool and die trade by the time I was old enough to push the broom


7 posted on 09/24/2017 6:42:30 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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I do not for a moment imagine the typical Democrat, MSM journalist, Liberal/communist blog site commentator, or college snowflake has a clue as to the working habits of Americans. Regardless of the issue of an 11 year old mowing a lawn (horrors!), the fomenting opposition to all things conservative will find grievous fault with ANYTHING about the Trump Administration.

As we view this outrage over enterprising youth, there have to be a dozen "reporters" scrounging the backgrounds of the young man and his family, ever so eager to dig up some salacious 'truth' that ridicules this harmless episode of Americana.

8 posted on 09/24/2017 6:44:45 PM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent..)
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When I was a kid I had to walk barefoot across the living room in order to change the channel on the TV and it did not matter if it was raining or snowing or if there was a hurricane going on outside. Kids nowadays have it way too easy.


9 posted on 09/24/2017 6:53:41 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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“When I was a kid I had to walk barefoot across the living room in order to change the channel on the TV ——”

You were an abused child. :-)

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10 posted on 09/24/2017 6:56:30 PM PDT by Mears
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11 posted on 09/24/2017 6:56:58 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: seawolf101

I saw my first remote TV controller in 1960. It was a Zenith TV with Space Command remote. You pressed a bar and the unit went ‘clunk,’ inasmuch as it was sound activated.


12 posted on 09/24/2017 7:00:08 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: oldasrocks

Yep. I was turned loose with a JD730 diesel a week after turning 7. Left unsupervised to rake a 40 acre field of oat straw. A few months earlier I was pulling a four section harrow over plowed ground with a Oliver 770. Dad was plowing in the same field, so I wasn’t unsupervised. I look back and joke about that job. It was a brutal ride on the hills where the clay slabs practically threw me off the tractor.

My siblings and I had livestock chores by the time we were 4. I’ve got a photo of my dad feeding the chickens when he was just 2.


13 posted on 09/24/2017 7:00:56 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: seawolf101
When I was a kid I had to walk barefoot across the living room in order to change the channel on the TV and it did not matter if it was raining or snowing or if there was a hurricane going on outside. Kids nowadays have it way too easy

LOL! I did that too on my Dad's B&W TV set, actually has to turn the knob to change channels. I also had a lawn mowing business with a friend of mine, we charged 50¢ for both front and back lawns (this was in the early to mid 1960s).

14 posted on 09/24/2017 7:04:45 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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I am amazed the libs haven’t yet called child services on Trump or the Kid’s parents...


15 posted on 09/24/2017 7:06:13 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: Hojczyk

And take away their iPhones.


16 posted on 09/24/2017 7:06:36 PM PDT by McGruff (Lock Her Up! In a Padded Cell!)
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My son was 4 when I put him in the seat of a 4440 JD to drive across an open pasture as I took another tractor across. I put it in low gear and when he got there stepped up on the tractor to stop it. He loved it and went home and told Mom. When he was 10, I had his mother raking hay as he rode with her. He was telling her exactly how to do it. He is now 27 and a wonderful son.


17 posted on 09/24/2017 7:13:33 PM PDT by taterjay
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Me too only I got $2.00 per lawn. Financed my 1/2A model plane building and flying that way until inflation took them away from me. Could no longer afford fuel.


18 posted on 09/24/2017 7:17:11 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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FRiends, without folks like us, our parents, and our progeny, this country would grind to a halt in a week.


19 posted on 09/24/2017 7:18:22 PM PDT by tomkat
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My late grandfather was a Coal Cracker/Breaker at age 11,lived through the Great Depression and served in WWII. Life was tough. A modern football player does not know tough nor understand appreciation.


20 posted on 09/24/2017 7:29:41 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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