Posted on 04/26/2012 4:26:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
Regulation: For centuries, children have played an indispensable role in family farms. Their efforts have been and still are often essential to survival. But the nanny state wants to outlaw their contributions.
What do the Labor Department bureaucrats in urban, elitist Washington who are writing the rule that would prohibit children under 18 from working on farms know about farm culture?
How familiar are they with agricultural society and its age-old traditions and its timeless demands? Who are they to interfere with a way of life that has been the backbone of America?
None of that matters to the busybodies and petty tyrants of the federal government. They will force their rules on others because they believe in their moral and intellectual superiority — particularly over a people they see as hayseeds in fly-over country.
Farming has inherent dangers. We won't dispute that.
The machinery can be lethal. It is also hard work. It's not a cushy and counterproductive government job that pays more than productive private-sector work.
What farming also isn't is a domain of private life that the federal government can take over.
Should the Obama Labor Department get its way, farm kids under 18 will no longer be allowed to work in grain elevators, silos and feed lots, or at stockyards and livestock auctions.
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Mark my words.
Michael Taylor: http://www.muckety.com/Michael-Taylor/145019.muckety
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Population control via gmo
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
-C. S. Lewis
One of the most poignant quotes I've encountered in quite a while.
When I was a lad, I was given transportation home from college by the father of a friend. Michigan just passed a seatbelt law. The father enthusiastically asked me what I thought of the new law and I retorted "Just what I need - another law by the government protecting me from myself".
He was incredulous at me and argued government control of all contingencies, but I argued the big picture back to him to no avail.
How dare the children of farmers take jobs away from illegal immigrants.
What do they know? Delenda Carthago, that's what.
Who are they to interfere with a way of life that has been the backbone of America?
Communists. Hilda Solis is redder than a rhesus monkey's ass.
How dare they farm? The Politburo didn't tell them they could farm.
Federally-licensed suppressed weapons (silencers) takes care of that. Lots of farmers have used them in the past.
In No Country for Old Men, the evil assassin Chigurh uses a stock-culling "tool" of that type.
“There is NOTHING wrong with kids participating in a family farm.”
Apparently, there is EVERYTHING wrong with it because a bunch of brilliant, Progressive, really-really smart, intellectual geniuses have decided that those
bible-thumping, gun-loving, church-going, knuckle-dragging,
neanderthal-owners of farms are a bunch of morons who don’t know what they’re doing. (The sting of tyranny becomes stronger by the minute.)
IMHO
Airplane?
Really?,Fill us in.
Piper Cherokee.
Do you have your own landing strip?
Will Johnny Cougar write a song about this? Or not, because HIS people are in the White House?
Darn. If I weren’t married already (and the the luckiest man alive), I’d be asking for phone numbers and/or email addresses...
2600’ X 50’ (WS76)
That’s cool. You must have a pretty big place to have a 2600ft strip.
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