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Posted on 04/25/2012 6:07:51 AM PDT by yoe
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.
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.”
“Prohibited places of employment,” a Department press release read, “would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”
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.
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.
“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.
This is an illegal immigrant jobs bill. The farm work must be done by someone.
Already, in this area, there are no “teen” jobs, they are all taken by illegals.
This bill extends that into food production.
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who’s gonna de-tassle corn?
Yet the same federal government and Congress will lament the demise of the family farm and think up new subsidies to protect farming from corporate interests.
Is this something that can be voted down?
I know folks want to reduce this to a matter of the marxist in chief's chitown politics, but it is bigger than that. It is another brick in the police state wall that has been put up around us with nary a peep.
Molon labe on this one. What will they do, come onto the family farms and arrest kids? Let ‘em come!
Don’t be silly. The Department of Labor will simply declare that corn doesn’t need to be de-tassled.
Ignore this rule and let the Dept of Labor attempt to enforce it.
Sound Good to Me!
Show of hands...how many people think these rules are going to be ignored, and that at some point a County Sheriff is going to become involved; depending on their politics either with or against the farm owner?
I am of the firm belief that County Sheriff’s are one of the last lines of defense against the rampant Federalism that is overtaking our country. Men like Joe Arapio, and countless others, are the ones who will be/are on the front line acting as a defender/trip wire in the coming battle.
> What will they do, come onto the family farms and arrest
> kids? Let ‘em come!
No, they will arrest the parents and fine them into penury so they have to work menial jobs in the city.
If you resist, they will kill you.
Just another step in their plan to cut people off from producing their own food.
If they control the food supply (that is, the ‘means of production’ for food), then very few people can control many.
Get hybrid seeds.
Learn how to start them.
Learn how to plant them.
Learn how to grow them.
Learn how to harvest the seeds to plant the following season.
Aquaponics, baby.
Oh, goody, now rural folks can raise lazy, good for nothing, video game playing little miscreants just like city folk do!
And there will be less competition for the illegal aliens.
I think the abunch of government morons are eager for a civil war.
I started operating my father farm tractor when I was 12 years old
So some Policy Wonk in size five black wings tips is going to show the 4-H club how it’s done?!
I wonder what Willie Nelson, John Cougar Mellencamp and all of their Farm Aid cohorts have to say about this?
On second thought, I think I know...
> So some Policy Wonk in size five black wings tips is going
> to show the 4-H club how it’s done?!
Look for the metrosexual queens to try to modify the focus and compass of 4-H in the coming years.
Remember, these fairies have jack-booted thugs from Treasury Dept. to do their bidding.
We have a small farm where our kids work, too. We will not comply. Neither will our neighbors. None of us will rat out any of the others.
If the fairies come with their thugs, it’s a signal to me that America is fallen, and we need to seek another home.
I actually find this a bit frightening because in prior years, even the most liberal Democrat administration was still afraid to take on the farmers.
This one seems to have no fear whatsoever.
Yes, either that, or they just want to put the rest of the family farmers out of business permanently, and damage our economy in the process. Whatever their goal is, these negative consequences are not unintentional, the commie bastards know exactly what they are doing.
Yeah, that’ll help bring food prices down....
America has no room for her kind. Ship her out. Purge her.
What about having kids running around as community organizers.
We saw this in “1984” - family relationships were banned. Your loyalty is to only be to the state. A very Satanic state of affairs, that.
Family farms are the epitome of what the left hates - strong families, strong character, work ethic, and independence.
This is the very same federal government that is telling the Supreme Court today that States cannot assist the federal government in the enforcement of illegal alien laws.
I”D suggest its time to crank up the dozers and start prepping the slit trenches. They’re coming for you if you live on a farm.
Yes, it can be voted down. We have to vote Obama out of office (even if that means voting Romney into office). We have to vote to turn control of the Senate over to someone better than Harry Reid (yes, even Mitch McConnell would be much better). We need to vote to keep Republicans in charge of the House (yes, even if Boehner is Speaker). Many conservatives seem to forget that there are worse things in life than RINOs.
And we also could be looking at filling a spot on the Supreme Court
“Look for the metrosexual queens to try to modify the focus and compass of 4-H in the coming years.”
It’s already happening, lots of USDA cash that was for 4H is going for “harm reduction” and “youth at risk” programs.
http://californiaagriculture.ucanr.org/fileaccess.cfm?article=70170&p=OJCQEN&filetip=pdf
http://ucanr.org/repository/cao/landingpage.cfm?article=ca.v050n02p4&fulltext=yes
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You need non-hybrid seeds.
I envision a farmers march on D.C. complete with tractors, rakes, hoes and other farm equipment.
As President Jefferson Davis so prophetically said just prior to the War Between the States: “We just want to be left alone.”
Furthermore, I can’t even imagine the good Amish farmers paying any attention to this edict.
I am waiting for the day when a brave County Sheriff comes out and says, "The federal government has overstepped its bounds and is acting in an un-Constitutional manner. Agents from Such-And-Such federal agency will be arrested and escorted out of my county if they attempt to enforce Such-And-Such law."
My husband’s first job in high school was recording weights of trucks freshly loaded with hay cubes, for the family agricultural trucking business. That would not be permitted any more, I guess.
Be careful what you say, the anti-Romney bots will come out of the wood work and pillory you for speaking such heresy on FR. They are everywhere and they are the guardians of all that is conservative; even if it means letting obama and his czars remain in control.
In just a matter of a few years there will be a huge increase in the number of injuries and deaths on the job.
Nothing is more dangerous on the job than an 18 yo kid that has never worked a day in their life at anything with any kind of risk.
They have no concept of danger and will put themselves in a position where they can get hurt or killed, and have no thought about it.
They also get other people hurt or killed because they have no concept of the risk involved with the job.
Remember who really got Elian Gonzalez returned to Cuba. It was Archer Daniels Midland.
This will run the Amish out of the country.
I started driving the tractor to plwo and cultivate at about ten. at 12 I was in the barn hanging tobacco and spearing it. at 14 I was hiring out to other farmers after we had harvested our own crop.
Do kids get hurt? Occasionally.
But they learn good work habits, They gain strength, and they don’t need to go to the gym most important they are with their dad.(God I wish I could be with him doing that again.)
They are much better off than joining a drug gamg in the city.
We had plenty of time to play after the work was done and we got hurt more often on the playing field than on the farm.
This is The Onion, right?
Well said.
The family farm is the last place children are ALLOWED to learn non-union work habits,therefore it must be destroyed.
Neither big labor ,big agribusiness,nor big government want independent people.
The child labor laws are at least as much about preserving union jobs as they are about protecting children from exploitation.
The family farm is the last place children are ALLOWED to learn non-union work habits,therefore it must be destroyed.
Neither big labor ,big agribusiness,nor big government want independent people.
The child labor laws are at least as much about preserving union jobs as they are about protecting children from exploitation.
It is a further attack on agrarian religious organizations like the Anabaptists, Amish, Mennonites, etc... (bible clingers).
These kids are stealing jobs that could be held by good hard working UNION employees. We need to organize the Family farm so that Obama’s UNION supportors can have good paying jobs and put the family farm out of business. Ya that is the OBUMMER way.
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