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Gingrich Daughter's Teen Work May Have Violated Law [US Dept. of Labor: Child Labor Laws Broken?]
MSNBC ^ | January 18, 2012 | Eve Tahmincioglu

Posted on 01/18/2012 10:03:15 PM PST by Steelfish

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To: Steelfish

MSNBC contributor Eve Tahmincioglu lamented that, “Disasters wipe out jobs along with lives .” In her piece, Tahmincioglu blamed job loss directly on the tornadoes and floods that have bedeviled the central US.

The hardest-hit states already are seeing claims pour in for unemployment benefits. Since a deadly wave of tornadoes swept through Tuscaloosa, Ala., and other Southeast towns in late April, more than 6,000 people have applied for disaster-related jobless benefits, said Tom Surtees, director of the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations. Typically about 24,000 people file for jobless benefits each month in the state, where the jobless rate is 9.3 percent, a bit above the national average.

Might make sense, of course. If your towns have been wiped out by natural disasters, well, it might stand to reason that jobs would be wiped out, too. This might help explain the sad jobs picture during this, the Obama administration. MSNBC would love if it were that simple, love to have something other than Obama to blame for the high unemployment figures, certainly. (more…)

From the “figures lie, but liars figure” department we find that left-leaning cable newser MSNBC reported that the main reason Obama’s job stats are tumbling and unemployment is so high is because of the harsh tornado season and other natural disasters we have been experiencing over the first half of 2011. Yet, hypocritically, if we take a peak back to the unemployment rates reported by MSNBC in 2004, during Bush’s era, his jump in hiring was called false because of — you guessed it — hurricanes and other natural disasters.

That’s right, folks, MSNBC is using natural disasters to explain away Obama’s high unemployment rates when they used the very same excuse, natural disasters, to say that Bush’s rise in employment was false.

http://bigjournalism.com/tag/eve-tahmincioglu/


81 posted on 01/18/2012 11:25:56 PM PST by kcvl
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To: svcw
Oh, this is just stupid.

Why?

It's a great opportunity for the MSM to work for social justice. MSNBC should stay on this case until noon a year from tomorrow, when Newt takes the oath.

82 posted on 01/18/2012 11:25:59 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Zeppelin

It should be illegal for Liberals to buy door locks, or locks of any kind for that matter.

Liberals lock their doors to protect them from other Liberals.


83 posted on 01/18/2012 11:26:54 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Liberals, Useful Idiots Voting for Useless Idiots...)
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To: Steelfish

Jackie should take her broom and shove it up MSNBC’s ass where it is needed to clean out all the leftist crap that is up there.

Might even poke Chrissy Matthews, commie O’Donnell, and Ed The Horse Schulz in the eye, up there.


84 posted on 01/18/2012 11:27:15 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Steelfish
Eve Eve Tahmincioglu looks like a female Jon F'in Kerry
85 posted on 01/18/2012 11:30:13 PM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: chuckles

I shoveled snow, took care of gardens, raked leaves, worked in my father’s store, and worked at a camp as a waiter, all before I was 15.

Bought food, records, stamps, and a coke & cody with my own money.

I’m no govt welfare slave. Everyone in my family worked, often from the day they got off the boats from Europe (5 cents an hour to roll cigars; sewing, etc).

Obama has created a nation of “slackers” (McFly), and MSNBC wants to keep it that way.

The writer, probably a crazy Romanian who missed working on the horse radish farms by a hair.


86 posted on 01/18/2012 11:35:15 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Doogle

‘Gingrich Daughter’s Teen Work May Have Violated Law’

My parents definely violated child labor laws and I am so glad they did! I learned to work my ass off and loved it and still do to this day. It is a great feeling to know you have worked a hard days work to make your own living.

Some 45% of the country’s freeloaders should know such joy and happiness!

These know it alls can kiss my ass! I doubt any of these so-called experts have ever worked a real days work in their ugly souled lives.


87 posted on 01/18/2012 11:38:57 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Steelfish

When I heard Newt talk about it, I thought the janitor was tossed out as an example, of the things he was talking about not that all janitors could or should be replaced with kids.


88 posted on 01/18/2012 11:43:04 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: svcw

That IS the problem, they are making us all criminals, some before they are fourteen years old. Where is the freedom they are always talking about?


89 posted on 01/18/2012 11:46:50 PM PST by Cowgirl
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To: dagogo redux

Technically this kind of light church-cleaning might have not been kosher, but it sounds very like a family chore situation with easy tasks. It does not sound like anything that comes remotely close to abuse.


90 posted on 01/18/2012 11:54:01 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: Steelfish

Much like those who grew up on farms, those of us from lumberjack families were doing all sorts of illegal/dangerous work from our pre-teen years onward. Quite a few of my friends were more than capable (and did) of driving skidders and loaders/running chainsaws well before 16 rolled around.

My grandfather and my uncle both drove log trucks and I spent many a 40 below night in them keeping them running in an Adirondack winter because a 350 Cummins does not like to start at that temp after sitting all night. Likewise under them changing busted springs and blown tires on 20 in. split rims. (try Coke for rust busting ;)

This country would have then/still would today fail utterly without kids working jobs that the govt says are illegal.


91 posted on 01/18/2012 11:54:42 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: kcvl

Hey, I manned garage sales when I was a kid. Probably violated some stupid feral law. I loved it because I got to make money.


92 posted on 01/18/2012 11:55:26 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: Steelfish

Mountain meets molehill.


93 posted on 01/18/2012 11:55:57 PM PST by metesky (Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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To: Norm Lenhart

kids can yeehaw too


94 posted on 01/18/2012 11:56:03 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: metesky

In a weird way, this actually takes away some of the innocence of childhood. Kids normally don’t have to be beaten or goaded into doing things that their parents and older siblings willingly do. Dad painted rooms, so did I. My big brother worked on the car from above and beneath, so did I. It was a family thing.


95 posted on 01/18/2012 11:58:40 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Indeed!

I can just imagine what those libs would do if they ever found out that all them farm/forestry/industrial redneck teen kids had a beer or two right along with their Dads/co workers at the end of the day too ;)

I miss the old ways and the old days.


96 posted on 01/19/2012 12:01:22 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Steelfish

I remember work ethic. I got mine by working in the fields in the summers and then when I hit High School, being from a large poor family, I was eligible to participate in something called “Work Study” where I could work before and after school in the attendance office and during the summer doing maintanance, filing and whatever other work they needed done at the high school.
Then I worked in the cannery at night. When I got to college I still got to participate in the Work Study program and that helped a lot. Of course, this was the 60s, not the 80s.
After the child labor laws came about is when we had the influx migrants who became immigrants and when the kids started being so ungrateful, IMO.


97 posted on 01/19/2012 12:05:29 AM PST by tinamina
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To: svcw
More proof that the gubmint needs a severe going over with a very stiff rake--but in the service of freedom no doubt these idiot public servants will step right up.
98 posted on 01/19/2012 12:06:56 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Norm Lenhart

Might make sense to serve it in a mini mug, though, because the effect of the alcohol is proportional to the body weight. One can to a kid might be like three or four cans to his dad.

But don’t let Smokey the Bear see it.


99 posted on 01/19/2012 12:08:52 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Up north we had more than one 16 year old ‘lumberjack’ in the 200 pound range. And not a lot of fat on’em. Think the stereotypical ‘Farm boy’. They grow’em big in the woods ;)

BS aside, I’m not saying Dads force fed beer to their kids, my point was simply that it was just another ‘dangerous thing’ that libs would flip over. In the 80s there were still states with 17 YO drinking ages. Today people tend to forget that once upon a time in the pre MADD hysteria days, a teenager with a beer was not that uncommon, nor did parents freak out about it.


100 posted on 01/19/2012 12:17:29 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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