“The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child labor laws to children working on family farms,” Daily Caller’s Patrick Richardson reported on Wednesday, “prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.”
Somewhere, farm kids high-fived each other.
But not Rossie Blinson of Buis Creek, NC. Now in college, Blinson expressed concern that the new rule would shortchange young people. “I started showing sheep when I was four years old. I started with cattle around eight,” Blinson declared. “It’s been very important. I learned a lot of responsibility being a farm kid.”
Minnesotan John Weber, 19, argued that the proposed regulation would “prevent a lot of interest in agriculture. It’s harder to get a 16-year-old interested in farming than a 12-year-old.” Weber is majoring in Agriculture at college and credits working on his grandparents’ and uncle’s farms with instilling a “work ethic” in him. “It gave me a lot of direction and opportunity in my life.”
In high school, Weber took out a loan to purchase a few steers to raise and sell. “Under these regulations, I wouldn’t be allowed to do that.”
Further, the regs would forbid groups like 4-H and FFA from providing safety training, mandating, instead, a 90-hour federal government course.
Oh, but wait a second . . . it must be an election year or something! “Citing public outrage,” informs a notice posted on the Daily Caller story after business hours last night, “the Department of Labor has withdrawn the controversial rulemaking proposal described in this article.”
My goodness, that’s actually common sense! I’m Paul Jacob.
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One of the problems is that these government, college boy, elitist, know-it-alls never seek the input of the people directly affected by their attempts to do what they believe is best for someone else.
Common sense is anything but common with the people in power. They always believe they know better than the rest of us.
Unfriggin’ believable! In one of my more recent columns or else in an email to someone I remarked that the national legislature/regulatory machinery had reached the point of reductio ad absurdum. Purely in terms of continuing to pass central dictatorship-type rules(by huge majorities or regulatory edict) that almost nobody in the educated public real world accepts.
I’m hoping the people will very soon nullify (www.tenthamendmentcenter.com) these many acts of, well, treason. Or simply ignore them and be on their way, like the Cider House Rules (http://www.amazon.com/Cider-House-Miramax-Collectors-Series/dp/B00003CWNR/?tag=thecofcoa-20). At least someone had the sanity to kill this particular excrescence.
I understand the government had been planning to help the farms that would be losing labor assistance by assigning highly experienced Secret Service personnel to the ‘Ho’ing
Citing public outrage and withdrawing this proposal is NOT enough by a long shot. The people who have come up with this idiocy need to be dumped off if the public payroll and go back to working for a living. And quite probably the government agency that allowed this to even be considered is getting WAY too many funds in its budget and ought to be made MUCH smaller. And it needs to have the people that are then left working there reminded about the 17 enumerated duties of the federal government. Frequently.
What’s next, banning someone from having their children make the bed? I spent my high school years cooking dinner most nights (my sister did it before me) because our mother was working and going to school.
You have to admire the chutzpah. The same people who scream about government ‘getting into the bedroom’ and don’t want anyone telling them what to do would come between parents and children in their own home.
What about–sorry I forgot which agency,– probably The Federal Highway Authority– wants to ban GPS’ from talking and showing the maps on the screens on mounted GPS’s- as it ‘ could cause distractions”. (Best of the Web–ON line-WSJ Opinion- earlier this month).
And other crackpot ideas.
The late George McGovern, after leaving the Senate, and having a business (or two or three) fail, said that had he known the consequences and difficulties of the laws, rules and regulations that he helped write and/or vote for, he never would have done so.
perhaps ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ( AND THE AGENCIES) BE FORCED TO LIVE WITH THEIR REGULATIONS FOR 30 OR 60 DAYS, BEFORE THEY CAN MAKE ANYONE ELSE DO SO.
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