Let’s establish this right out of the gate so as not to confuse issues: It is wrong when corporations use child labor. Forgetting the law for a moment, whether it is here in the U.S. or overseas, children are children, and corporations should not exploit children. Got it? With that said, this is not about corporations, this is about families and farms. More specifically, family farms and the overreach of the federal government.
For centuries, even before there was Willie Nelson and FarmAid, farming throughout the world (including here in the United States) has largely been a family affair. That is, parents and their children (when not in school) work from dawn until dusk to put food on the family table, and the tables of others.
Recognizing this, when child labor laws were developed in the last century, there was an exemption built in for family farms. Now, however, the concept of the family farm may be getting gutted if the Obama Labor Department has its way.
Under a proposed “dramatic updating” of the nation’s child labor regulations, the Department of Labor is considering eliminating many of the tasks that children and young adults do on their family’s farm.
Although the DOL’s website specifically states, “The proposed regulations would not apply to children working on farms owned by their parents,” the regulations would (presumably) apply to farms owned by grandparents and other, non-parental family members.
Moreover, as the Milwaukee’s Journal-Sentinel notes, many family farms are legally structured, which could remove it from the parental farm exemption:
Under the proposed rules, according to the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, someone under 18 would not be allowed to do many chores for a neighbor or even their own family’s farm if it’s set up as a corporation or a business partnership.
Today, many family farms are legally structured as corporations or partnerships.
Under the DOL’s proposal [emphasis added], the following tasks would be outlawed….
Read more from Labor Union Report on RedState.com.
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What do you do w/a 'RAT' in the cupboard?
You do what a friend of mine once did, take a 38 and blow him out of the cupboard. She did, and the RAT was as dead as a doornail!!!!! I have wished now, for three years that someone would shoot the rat that is infecting our nation’s cupboard……………….alas, no one has so far, had the balls to do so. Or, maybe nobody wants to spend time in prison for simply getting rid of a simple minded, and sorry excuse of a rat. Personally, given the choice between a furry rat and this flappy eared, purple lipped peice of pig shit, I’d take the furry rat instead. He truly isn’t worth spending one second behind bars. He is not worth the fur on a RAT! What does one do in this case? Only God knows, only God!!!! I truly beleive that our one and only chance of turning the tide, and getting this lower life form out of office would be to drop on our collective knees and begging God Almighty to help us, PLEASE HELP US ALL! Worse than this sorry peice of muSLIME FILTH/DISEASE, is the media, they are, as I said in one comment, THEY ARE THE TRAITORS! It is THEY WHO HAVE WHITEWASHED THIS TRASH FROM KENYA INTO A “WHITED SEPLECURE” and called him/IT GOOD! Has anyone heard one tiny thing uncomplimentary about this PEICE OF SHIT from any one of these so called “reporters” or news outlets? No. Yet they continually attack anyone who “DARES” to run against this shit, and demonizes them to death almost! Herman Cain is just one such example, and he is BLACKER than the HALF WHITE HALF ‘black” freak of nature!!!! I blame this so called “honest reporting” of theirs, nothing but LIES FROM START TO FINISH! They would not know true or truth from their own asses. Diane Sawyer and the rest, especially that dyke, KATIE COURIC! She still has poop on her face from 2008! Brown noses and all. I refuse to watch any of them, because all they do is pile one load of shit upon another, lies and more lies. They and they alone, are responsible for ruining Herman Cain, in order to further muddy the waters of truth. And to keep this filthy peice of disease in our once, “white” house. Why, would be the question, why are they so hellbent on continuing the DOWNFALL OF THEIR OWN COUNTRY? For make no mistake, it is THEY WHO HOLD THE RESPONSIBILITY OF FIRST ALLOWING THIS ENEMY OF AMERICA INTO THE SEAT THAT HE NOW HOLDS AND FULLY INTENDS TO HOLD ONTO, WHILE TAKING EVERYTHING FROM THE TRUE PATRIOTS OF OUR COUNTRY! AND HANDING OUR FREEDOMS OVER TO HIS muSLIME BROTHERS TO FURTHER RUIN AND DESTROY!!!!! The MEDIA FOLKS, THE MEDIA ARE OUR WORST ENEMIES!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Kill it!
One more way for Obummer to destroy America his main goal .This turd has got to be stopped and if people don't wise up our grand children are in deep shit
These communist are picking the family owned farms to pieces, first the driving license fieasco, now the age bull crap. Their jealous that people are working at something honest.
just like obummer now they want to take over the farms.POFS.
And another missle fired at us Americans by "Commisar" His "Rightiousness and God of all he surveys~
Obama the great! If you've never heard of Agenda 21~ Say Hello to the latest Communist Doctrine.
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the first Communist Leader of our great nation~ Gee I hope to get rid of him at the polls~and all his cronies
with him! If he gets a second term~~We Americans will be totally f———————————-d!
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