Posted on 09/18/2017 9:48:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’m assuming that Frank’s father is there with him - exploiting his own son and forcing him into child labor. I hope someone has called the authorities, and the wheels are in motion to make lawn mowing by children illegal.
These are the same people who try to close down lemonade stands.
Yet those same people are all in favor of illegal aliens doing yard work. Go figure.
Did the same people complain about kids being drafted to work on Michelle Obama’s collective farm?
I guess the kid had to black or brown?
Well sure, everyone knows lawn mowing and leaf blowing jobs are for illegals only.
I read that the kid volunteered to cut the lawn. Thus, anything he received for it was a gratuity or gift. The labor laws don’t even come into play.
“Greenhouse attempted to defend himself by citing his extensive experience in writing about child labor law violations and the danger of children being injured by machinery. From a high level perspective I suppose there’s something to that. I’m not sure we should be hiring eleven year olds to run industrial stamping machines or tunnel grinders, but we’re talking about a lawnmower here.”
I don’t give a rat’s patoot what experience he has in writing about child labor laws and injuries. I want to know if he’s ever pushed a lawnmower.
Besides which in the report I read the kid was under adult supervision.
Man, these morons are so predictable. We should troll them every chance we get. It’s just too funny.
Greenhouse could have done something smart and useful.
He could have referred to the “Top Ten Mower Safety Tips” at
https://www.familyhandyman.com/landscaping/top-ten-mower-safety-tips/view-all/
But Greenhouse prefers to be an alarmist, referring to statistics that include mower injuries to kids who are 2 yo and 4 yo and kids who don’t wear decent shoes, or eye and ear protection,.
Not more child labor exploitation!
Allowing children to learn a work ethic and also to learn that work is a great importance in life cuts across the desires of the progressive welfare statist. Kids are supposed to learn to avoid work. Our entire education system is designed to inculcate a distaste for work
and they don't care how old they are either!..they're just worried about costs....THEIR COSTS!!
Lock him up!
I grew up in the town that Frank is from. Mowing yards for $2 a pop and shoveling snow, $1 a sidewalk and $2 a driveway was what we kids did for extra money.
Nothing exposes a bad law, in this case child labor, like its enforcement.
John would have no problem having an illegal Mexican coolie mow his lawn though.
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