Obama Strikes Again! Attempts to Reverse 10,000 Years of Precedent!

[suitanim]

Bear in mind that one of the main reasons people used to have so many kids was to provide free/cheap labor....on the family farm. And that the only reason there is no school in the summer is so kids can work........on the family farm. This is just more of the same, nanny-state government intrusion, butting in where they have no right to be, making decisions about things they have no real-World experience or expertise in (but still believing that they know best), and overstepping the bounds of the constitution...again.

Some of the mandates here are laughable. Children can only operate tractors or heavy equipment under the supervision of an adult. Well, if there is an adult, wouldn't they just operate the equipment anyway? This will end up costing farmers...we cannot get rid of this idiot in the WH soon enough.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/artic...1_ULNSeg513495

Every day after school, Matt Muller's four children come home to help on Martha Valley Farms, the land in Jackson County that has been in the family for 25 years. Sometimes their cousin, Muller's nephew, comes home with them.


If the U.S. Department of Labor's proposed changes to child labor regulations go into effect, it would be illegal for his nephew to continue lending a hand, Muller said. Changes would also prevent other young family members from spending the summer on Martha Valley and would stop the children from helping their grandfather plant and irrigate his farm, Muller said.

The department is seeking comments through Dec. 1 on proposed changes that would stop children under 16 from doing what are considered to be the most dangerous farming jobs. Proposed changes include prohibiting young teens from riding on a tractor, herding and branding cattle, working inside a grain silo, working more than six feet off the ground and working with pesticides.

[The WH]

Good luck convincing Beauford T. Justice in rural Iowa to enforce this on his neighbors. The same people he has lived next to for 40 years.

Don't worry though, Monsanto will kill farmers first.

[fansince'76]

It's a well-known fact that teaching young kids how to drive tractors leads to underage and illegal joyriding...

A 10-year-old boy sneaked into a Florida impound lot, stole a pickup truck, led police on a brief chase, and knocked down a utility pole, which then set a house on fire...

...Police don’t know how the boy found the keys. But they did find out how he learned to drive.

“Word on the street — and word from grandma — is she taught him how to drive,” said McIntyre. “She taught him how to drive tractors in the farm and drive around in the field that she owns.”...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...cops-like-him/

[suitanim]

Good luck convincing Beauford T. Justice in rural Iowa to enforce this on his neighbors. The same people he has lived next to for 40 years.

Don't worry though, Monsanto will kill farmers first.

True enough...probably through the "Terminator Gene". Scary stuff!

[The WH]

Yeah, it's completely messed up.

[Mach1]

More job openings for the illegals.

[suitanim]

More job openings for the illegals.

Can you blame them if the do go that route? If you're a farmer and you aren't raising corn/wheat/soy (The "big 3" for government subsidies), you are almost certainly struggling. Then along comes Hopey and rubs some salt in your open wounds. Even if this misguided measure has good intentions, it also will have a ton of negative unforeseen consequences. Illegal employment is probably at least one of them.

Why do this then? Because Obama knows farmers vote "R".