Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores

The road to hell is paved with good intentions....this is one of the paving stones.

Has Solis ever been on a farm? Big Brotha is reaching his fingers everywhere.

What's next, they going to prevent town kids from mowing the lawn? perhaps raking leaves ? taking out the garbage ? is walking the dog recreation or work ?

Having grown up in a rural area as a town kid (but with many farm kid friends), all I have to say:

Absolutely idiotic.

Way for the Democrats to alienate every American in the farming sector.

Obviously, chores are child labour. What's next, homework or school will be considered child labour? "Sorry kids, you gotta hang around and do nothing all day till you are 18 (instead of 4) because going to school means "work".

President Obama has Kansas roots. He should know better, especially given the disproportionate power agricultural states have in the Senate and the Electoral college.

The Democrats are showing their contempt for rural America. Again.

Edit: The arrogant b&stards think they can just keep dumping one regulation after another on people in the so-called 'red states' and that there won't be a backlash.

Thirty years ago the IRS ran rampant over farmers until Willie Nelson drew attention to their plight and then the IRS directed its ire at him. Which further ticked off the rural folks to the point that Nye County, Nevada was in near open rebellion with people threatening to shoot BLM agents and then in Fallon two IRS agents were knocked off. Only then did someone in Washington realize it was time to back off.

I don't know how many of you realize how close the USA is to either civil war or dissolution or something but the fact of the matter is that we are.

We've got liberal Democrats calling for Governor Walker of Wisconsin to be beheaded.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2 ... s-Head-Off

We've got the BATFE implementing a gun registration scheme on border states regardless of court orders to not do such a thing. Obama is using his power to try to silence Arizona and other states as they try to deal with illegal immigration and drug cartel crime. The EPA has just been slapped down by the US Supreme Court for asserting that their decisions were unquestionable by any court. The Mayor of New York City has sent his own agents into rural states to stir up trouble and no in the Federal Government is telling him to cut it out. And etc.

Things are getting pretty dicey down here and I don't think it matters who wins the election this fall there's sooner or later going to be a confrontation of some sort.

A conversation I had with a friend who is G-4 of a particular state National Guard was about the anniversary next year of the Federal raid on the people at Waco, Texas and he said, with no equivocation, that if such a thing were to happen in his state his current governor has made it clear that she'll order the Guard to protect their citizens. That's how bad it is.

This is exactly what happens when ignorant people are allowed to make decisions. There's nothing inherently wrong with child labour. It's only a problem when it comes at the expense of education. Child labour regulations weren't instituted to prevent kids from working but to give them the chance to go to school. If it's work done concurrently with education, there's no issue. Some dumbass with no understanding of the history of the labour movement just magically concluded "child worker = evil" without a damn clue.

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When I end up having kids, I intend to perform every single one of these things with them. You can't learn if you never do anything, and the best lessons come when you get yourself hurt. (but not too badly).

Completely ridiculous. And to replace 4H with a government training program? Would they get to handle actual animals or computer sims?


I spent my all summers as a kid on my grandparent's farm helping with chores. Child labour? Hardly I wouldn't trade all that that taught me for anything.

Me too. My uncles chicken, dairy, pig farm.

No sheep, as he wasn't Scottish.

Wow. Retarded.

I admit, we may have pushed the boundries a bit as I was delivering wheat to the local elevator before I had a driver's license.

When my Dad finally agreed to start paying me for my hours in the field, it was on the condition that I start buying my own clothes. My clothing started to last a lot longer and I learned the value of work.

One of my friends in Clarksburg lets his 14 year old drive the SUV around town and no one, including the local deputy, cares.

Why?

Because we've all seen Lauren driving combines, harvesters, tractors, and even a 20 ton bulldozer and she does just fine so the least of our worries is what she does behind the wheel of a pokey little SUV.

Seriously, what these kids would LOSE from being prohibited to work on the farm would be immeasurable.