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Obama’s Outrageous DOL Rules Will Restrict Minors From Working on Family Farms – Killing Farm Life
gateway ^ | March 21, 2012, | Jim Hoft

Posted on 03/21/2012 9:40:19 PM PDT by george76

Barack Obama is committed to killing off the family farm – an American tradition.

For generations children and adults have worked together on the family farm. Those days are over.

Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) today introduced the Preserving America’s Family Farm Act, to prevent the Department of Labor (DOL) from enacting its controversial proposed restrictions that would ban children from working on family farms.

Senator Thune spoke out against the Obama Administration’s proposed labor rules for youth who work on farms and ranches on the Senate floor.

The Obama Administration’s rules are so strict they would restrict minors from handling most animals and even from using battery-powered screwdrivers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Kansas; US: Montana; US: North Dakota; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: agenda21; family; familyfarm; familyfarms; farm; unagenda21
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To: george76

It's time to fire the entire federal government!

Deport all leftists...

Start over again with VERY SMALL fed-gov.

61 posted on 03/22/2012 1:04:45 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: george76

BTW, there’s a bill in the CO legislature for reorganizing part of the State’s HHS (CO DHS) services regarding kids. It’s a UN-related thing. If it passes, the State will monitor much more about children and their households.

IMO, the only correction in sight is the default process to force smaller government, but there will be a whole lot of pain for the next tiers of middle class families cut from the ever more exclusive economy (debt regime radically shrinking sooner or later).


62 posted on 03/22/2012 1:21:26 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop

I saw that.

The Denver Post blog posters were nasty - as usual, too.


63 posted on 03/22/2012 5:44:26 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

When the government crosses some line that you have drawn in the sand, what will you do?


64 posted on 03/23/2012 10:57:51 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: george76
Thanks for the ping!

Who knew that I was once a criminal? I pulled tarps from a catching frame when I was 11 and 12 in the orchards of northern California. When I was 15, I started driving tractor and/or forklift every summer until I graduated from high school.

When Obama is done with America, we won't recognize it. Just damn.

65 posted on 03/31/2012 3:31:03 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Flycatcher

This will kill the Four H Club, one of the finest organizations in the United States.


66 posted on 03/31/2012 4:16:16 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Obama has NEVER given a speech where he did not lie!!!)
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To: AGreatPer
Didn't think about that, but you're right. Same with the FFA (Future Farmers of America).

Speaking of that, one of my favorite things to do at county fairs is to visit the livestock exhibits. Just about all the hogs, goats, lambs, sheep, etc. were raised by kids -- often pre-teen kids. When they sell their livestock at the fair auction, they don't really make too much money for their efforts, but it instills in them a rock-solid work ethic.

It would be a real shame to see Obama put an end to that. I have no doubt that the Communist-in-Chief truly hates America. There can be no other explanation for his wholesale destruction.

67 posted on 03/31/2012 4:35:51 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Flycatcher
Why do I have to hear about this on Free Republic?
And I live in farm country.
Where are our legislatures? Why is this not all over the news?
68 posted on 03/31/2012 4:54:32 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Obama has NEVER given a speech where he did not lie!!!)
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To: george76; Morgana

From the same people who think 11 year olds are mature enough for sex. Crazy.


69 posted on 04/03/2012 2:59:51 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: george76

Have to pry the heirs away from the family farm so they know nothing of the family business and will be all too willing to part with it as they grow older.

Also puts a fork in the meme that these farm jobs are work Americans just WON’T do.


70 posted on 04/03/2012 5:20:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
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To: sport
That was what they were designed to do: Kill farm life as we know it.

Can you spell kholkhoz? It's Russian for "collective farm". Maybe Comrade Obama will show us a new way of getting the crops in.

71 posted on 04/03/2012 10:57:14 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: GeronL
From the same people who think 11 year olds are mature enough for KINKY sex.

There. Fixed it.

72 posted on 04/03/2012 11:18:44 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: george76

Thune needs to defund the DOL. Simple as getting the few non RINO’s in line and running with that.


73 posted on 04/04/2012 4:07:14 AM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: Graewoulf

The drumbeat of Dictator Baby-Doc Barack now is heard on our farms - - - ....There was a full scale raid on an Amish farm, recently, because they sold whole milk to a couple of customers.


74 posted on 04/04/2012 4:11:36 AM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: Safetgiver

Meanwhile, the drumbeat of Dictator Baby-Doc Barack continues to grow louder : -— regulate -— control -— destroy -— Regulate -— control -— destroy -— REgulate -— control -— destroy -— REGulate -— control -— destroy -— REGU


75 posted on 04/04/2012 5:37:36 AM PDT by Graewoulf ((Dictator Baby-Doc Barack's obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND U.S. Constitution.))
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To: nathanbedford

Liberals are driven by their need to help.
Liberals believe that rich people do not need help.
Liberals believe that poor people do need help.
So the sooner the Liberals can make the rich people poor,
The sooner the Liberals can help them.


76 posted on 04/04/2012 5:41:35 AM PDT by Graewoulf ((Dictator Baby-Doc Barack's obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Safetgiver

Farm/rural life is independent life.

And those who are independent aren’t easily controlled.


77 posted on 04/04/2012 5:45:33 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: george76

The rural way of life is a threat to the left. In fact, any self-sufficient way of living is anethema to them. All good citizens must be dependent on the government for their basic needs.


78 posted on 04/25/2012 6:09:54 AM PDT by jboot
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To: wbill
I worked on a number of farms as a kid. The most onerous thing I did was picking the dead chickens at a chicken farm.

Did the chickens have large talons? I hope you have seen Napoleon Dynamite.

79 posted on 04/25/2012 6:19:46 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: george76
If the federal government can regulate the relationship between parents and their children on their own family’s farm, there is virtually nothing off limits when it comes to government intrusion into our lives.

IMO, this will be shot down in Federal court. After all, why have your kids clean their rooms when you could hire a maid?

80 posted on 04/25/2012 6:26:47 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
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