Heads Up about proposed new Child Labor Laws for Farm Families

[Miniv]

Yet ANOTHER new regulation/law proposed by the government! I am SO tired of this administration. (Sorry.)

Just read the link, please.

If this goes through you can kiss 4-H and FFA good bye........

http://dailycaller.c...ng-farm-chores/

 

[fourluckyhorseshoes]

I hope this law is not passed. Is there a senator we can call up and talk to?

"Rossie Blinson, a 21-year-old college student from Buis Creek, N.C." -- I'm actually in the same major as her and have been in some of her classes.

 

[Carolyn R]

I heard of this yesterday, what do you expect of some city dweller that has little to no respect for the backbone of America? Stand up people, time to remind the government that they are there to oversee not to micromanage our lives. I guess I am a horrible parent, my kids muck stalls, take the dogs potty, turn out the horses on occasion, have their own bb guns and target practice with 22s with us. My daughter asked if she and some friends could camp in our small barn that is only used for hay and grain now, well elect me for the worst parent of the year! No I guess that would be reserved for the dairy farm down the way where the kids must help milk the cows before school. The government really needs to back off!

 

[ozymandias]

You might want to read the headline again.

Update, April 26, 7:55 p.m.: Citing public outrage, the Department of Labor

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has withdrawn

the controversial rulemaking proposal described in this article.

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[Miniv]

Ozymandias, You beat me to it.

I just saw the update a few minutes ago.

And I say YAY! If enough people get up and really complain, maybe this will happen more often!

 

[Carolyn R]

Great to see, it seemed to be updated while we were writing our posts. There are so many aspects of our daily lives where government needs to scale back it's big brother role.

 

[Jill]

Looks like it's now being retracted. Obama's very out of touch with every day Americans, as this attempted regulation illustrates. Also another lesson in the fact that bigger government = smaller individuals. I don't care how you check the math.

 

[tagalong]

It was misquoted and embellished far beyond the stupid idea it already was to begin with... before it was pulled. The main push seemed to be from politicians in Florida and Tennessee - what the heck were they thinking? At least it did not get very far.

 

[Jean_B]

You need to understand the political process (worked for a legislative office for 25 years). The VAST majority of stupid legislative PROPOSALS are the result of some legislator trying to passify an influential, but foolhardy, constituent...as in this case, some stupid constituents in Florida & Tennessee. They are proposed with NO intention of getting out of the starting box, but because some idiot with more money then sense thinks it's a good idea, the legislator proposes it - it's called "shut up" legislation. The constituent is happy, and eventually it all just goes away.

 

[ohmt]

Every time this comes I think it's a little bit funny how nobody actually read the proposed rule change, which excluded farms owned by the child's family. So if the child was working on his/her own family farm as a chore, they would have been exempt from the rule change.

Still, there were a few loopholes that needed fixing, so I am glad that it has been pulled. Safety was the purpose of the rule change, but they needed to go about it in a different way. People not willing to actually read the rule change went haywire. Also, it was proposed by the US Labor Department, not Obama himself.

 

[tagalong]

People not willing to actually read the rule change went haywire.

Yes, they did. And they embellished the dumb thing, added stuff to it that never existed and blew it up waaaay out of proportion. Predictably, others fell for it... without caring about pesky little things like facts or even bothering to do some fact-checking themselves...

 

[Sonya]

You all are correct that it did exempt the parents farm, however, Grandparent's farms were a no no....or an Uncle. cousin, etc...

 

[ohmt]

Like I said Sonya, there were loopholes, but it was far from what people were ranting about.

Mary Lou, I completely agree. It is definitely the fault of the News and other media sources. People in this country are so politically uninformed it is ridiculous. I admit, I am far from knowing all, but when I don't know something I do my best to research from valid, unbiased sources. I have been seeing an influx of political "stickers" and chain mail statuses on facebook that are so incredibly "off" it just saddens me.

 

[HGFarm]

Pulled out or not, I just dont understand people's logic and the need to write such crap...........

 

[tagalong]

I have been seeing an influx of political "stickers" and chain mail statuses on facebook that are so incredibly "off" it just saddens me.

And it will only get worse as the election nears. Rhetoric, rumours and conspiracies that do not exist are far more more important and interesting to people than facts....