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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

"How ya going to keep 'em down on the farm?"

Every day something angers me beyond the pale... I had heard about this a few months ago, but it's just now hitting the news... A proposal from the Obama administration prevents children from doing farm chores, that is, children under the age of 18 can no longer work "in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials." A Department press release read, "Prohibited places of employment would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions."
Say WHAT??!!
The Department of Labor is finishing up new rules that apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, and prohibit them from performing a list of jobs on their own families' land.
The article I read said that this is about destroying the family farm and pushing them into bankruptcy so they can shut them down, and then we can all rely on Big Ag to feed us.

This is completely disturbing to me. Kids have been working on family farms since food was grown.  I knew this administration would be 'Fast & Furious' in their power grabs but I am APPALLED at how fast we are losing our freedoms by the MINUTE!! This is only April!
Between now and election day, these radicals have WAY too much time to do irreparable damage...

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