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To: Libloather

I thought that is what farm kids did.

They worked.


2 posted on 03/21/2025 7:24:34 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: riverrunner

Uh...locking kids in sheds wasn’t part of farm work


4 posted on 03/21/2025 7:27:08 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Democrats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: riverrunner

wow, you are so funny behind your keyboard /s


16 posted on 03/21/2025 7:39:25 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: riverrunner

Is the wife Native American?


28 posted on 03/21/2025 8:09:57 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: riverrunner

Being locked in a shed and berated with racial slurs is definitely not typical farm life for any kid...

You can’t get much work done while locked in a shed.


33 posted on 03/21/2025 8:26:35 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: riverrunner

That’s pretty much the way it was in my life. My dad was a cattleman, spent all summer from the time I was 6 working in the hayfields for free and being berated when I messed something up.

I was a white slave.


43 posted on 03/21/2025 10:05:28 AM PDT by allwrong57
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To: riverrunner

Not just farm kids. My father was a welder and had his own business. When I was about 10 I started going with him to work on weekends. He hardly ever took any days off, seemed he was always busy. He showed me how to sharpen chisels, oil wrenches, clean torch tips, sweep out the building, etc. I didn’t mind, I enjoyed the atmosphere of the place, and his customers treated me like I was special. By the time I was 12, I was already welding for about a year (oxy/acetylene) and I was taking all of the small jobs that came into his shop. He paid me half of what the job was, the rest was for supplies. I never considered it work, I though I was on top of the world. But the kids in the article were not treated well at all, and forced to work. I was never forced to work in my fathers shop. Many parents that have a small business take their kids to work to learn the tricks of the trade, so maybe they’ll have their own business some day. Not so with these kids, maybe you didn’t read the whole article.


47 posted on 03/21/2025 10:36:51 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan ( )
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To: riverrunner

This was a bit more that regular farm kid work. Most farm families do not lock their children in a shed.


48 posted on 03/21/2025 10:39:11 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: riverrunner

Did you read the story?


56 posted on 03/21/2025 12:57:56 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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To: riverrunner

You thank that is funny?

Fookin’ racist.


60 posted on 03/21/2025 3:29:10 PM PDT by JoeRender (The left are advocates of morality only when they can use it against enemies political. )
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To: riverrunner

NOT EVEN CLOSE TO FUNNY


73 posted on 04/28/2025 10:46:49 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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