Posted on 04/26/2012 6:06:03 PM PDT by Nachum
Under pressure from farming advocates in rural communities, and following a report by The Daily Caller, the Obama administration withdrew a proposed rule Thursday that would have applied child labor laws to family farms.
Critics complained that the regulation would have drastically changed the extent to which children could work on farms owned by family members. The U.S. Department of Labor cited public outcry as the reason for withdrawing the rule.
“The decision to withdraw this rule — including provisions to define the ‘parental exemption’ — was made in response to thousands of comments expressing concerns about the effect of the proposed rules on small family-owned farms,” the Department said in a press release Thursday evening. “To be clear, this regulation will not be pursued for the duration of the Obama administration.”
The rule would have dramatically changed what types of chores children under the age of 16 could perform on and around American farms. It would have prohibited them from working with tobacco, operating almost all types of power-driven equipment and being employed to work with raw farm materials.
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We have lost many of our freedoms in this country because at some point some decided that there should be no risk in life. I came from a long line of risk takers and people who lived life to the fullest so this is a concept I have a hard time with. Is farming and ranching dangerous- well yes of course it is, but life itself is dangerous. Safety is a word that has been overused to pass laws that take our freedom. I believe our politicians use some people’s fear of life itself to take away our freedom. Some want a fantasy where we all live forever instead of people being allowed to make up their own minds what type of risk they want to take. People that ride bulls or jump out of airplanes know they can die doing it- but they also know they are living life to the fullest and don’t want it any other way. For those that think everyone should take it easy on their couch so no harm will come to them I would like to tell them they are free to lay on the couch, some of us want to really LIVE.
Bm
Your country may be only 230 years old, but MY Country is far older than that.
CHEERS for now but I wonder if they’ll just re do the law like they forced abortion taxing on catholic and other churches/non profits orgs. I hope this sticks.
I believe Mr. Obama once said: “I don’t do rural”.
not really...the indians were mostly hunter-gatherers..I don't recall them having an agricultural background....did they plow and plant ??? They ate a lot of what grew naturally, hunted the enormous amount of wildlife that were present here. The Europeans, when they came, established farming methods and actually reproduced agricultural products through their own efforts
sorry...if you are of american indian descent, your people were defeated by an invasive force of Europeans. Much like virtually every other nation on earth, the effective use of force established what we have today. Look at the past few years...where is Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union,when someone else takes over ( usually by force) they are in control. While some may not agree, to the victor go the spoils...it has always worked that way and always will
My own country (from the standpoint of oldest traceable ancestors) was established about 541 AD by settlers from what are today Cornwall and Essex ~ and they can be traced to 245 AD.
They held their own until the late 1500s. One line went to Sweden right as that nation was being created and another to Spain shortly after the discovery of the Americas. Some of them still live there.
That's what a "country" can mean ~ now, regarding a specific organizational structure? That's not a country ~ that's a "system"
America started the day the first Scottish rebel was tossed overboard into the Potomac near Smuggler's Creek. It'd started even sooner for the first Jewish woman who was dropped off at Shodack Island rather than New York. And even further back, the year when DeSoto's men found out that America was not just big, it was bigger than anything they could imagine ~ that it wasn't just a bunch of islands.
1775 to 2012 is, of course 237 years, not 230, so which country is it that dates back only 230 years?
Recent studies attribute the domestication of Japonica Rice to the Aleut people ~ it was developed in Coastal Alaska and taken to Asia in later centuries.
But right off the bat you have two great starch sources ~ potatoes and corn ~ as well as BEANS and SQUASH.
There are thousands of varieties of each ~ and there are numerous other species that were domesticated by Indians thousands of years ago.
The whole planet has but 6 known centers of plant domestication ~ one is the East Central region of North America (centered on Mammoth Cave) and another consists of the highlands of Central America (Mesoamerica) with a wide variety of climate zones arrayed vertically.
Recent studies attribute the domestication of Japonica Rice to the Aleut people ~ it was developed in Coastal Alaska and taken to Asia in later centuries.
But right off the bat you have two great starch sources ~ potatoes and corn ~ as well as BEANS and SQUASH.
There are thousands of varieties of each ~ and there are numerous other species that were domesticated by Indians thousands of years ago.
The whole planet has but 6 known centers of plant domestication ~ one is the East Central region of North America (centered on Mammoth Cave) and another consists of the highlands of Central America (Mesoamerica) with a wide variety of climate zones arrayed vertically.
Covered that later. Without the agricultural developments of the American indians this world would probably be unable to to support more than 500 million people instead of its current 7 billion.
I think that the world ate just fine before the discovery of the "new world" I don't think that the American Indian had the concept of planting a seed to produce a crop. They, of course ate what the earth provided, but to assume that a race of people who had no concept of the wheel could have established an agricultural program is nonsense.
Immediately to their south were civilizations creating cities, pyramids, stone buildings, metal tools and weapons,and a civilization that compared with the rest of the world. I have american indian blood in many of my relatives, but the American Indian population were VERY basic human beings.
BTW, your thesis is readily discredited. Even in Eurasia where people had no knowledge of the wheel they managed to create domesticated food crops.
Frankly I think you are faking it.
BTW, the ONLY place South of the Americas is called Antarctica. The penguins live there. They’ve built no cities nor have they made metal tools.
Not without a team of highly-paid public bureaucrats supervising them.
Seems appropriate.
Taking away the work ethic is a successful way to turn the next generation into undisciplined brats.
cute....when you run out of intelligence, you resort to comedy....that's O.K.
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