[BGThomasis]

Obama's getting tough on Big Goat. LOL This is like union rules meet goat herding. How many goat herders will this put out of business?

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45722

Team Obama Regulates Goat Herders' Workplaces

by Audrey Hudson 08/24/2011

The Obama administration is setting new workplace regulations to assist foreign workers who fill goat herding positions in the U.S. , including employee-paid cell phones and comfy beds.

These new special procedures issued by the Labor Department must be followed by employers who want to hire temporary agricultural foreign workers to perform sheep herding or goat herding activities. It describes strict rules for sleeping quarters, lighting, food storage, bathing, laundry, cooking and new rules for the counters where food is prepared.

“A separate sleeping unit shall be provided for each person, except in a family arrangement,” says the rules signed by Jane Oates, assistant secretary for employment and training administration at the Labor Department.

“Such a unit shall include a comfortable bed, cot or bunk, with a clean mattress,” the rules state.

Diane Katz, a research fellow in regulatory policy at The Heritage Foundation, unearthed the policy in the "Federal Register," the massive daily journal of proposed regulations that Washington bureaucrats publish every day.

Under the Obama Administration, the nanny state has imposed 75 new major regulations with annual costs of $38 billion.

“This captures what is wrong with government,” Katz said. “I could not have made this up.”

With unemployment holding steady at 9% and government regulations adding more burden to small businesses, such as those run by ranching families, Katz said, bureaucrats aren’t helping.

[Kghyutgykim]

Document here: http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/att...17-06_Att1.pdf

[Hetgvwic]

Brad, do you think it's wrong for the government to require those who hire migrants to NOT keep them chained up in box trucks? That's what some did to farm workers in Florida. Not 100 years ago, in 2007.

http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-03-2008/0004878260&EDATE=

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entr...hits_the_road/

[layedgebiamma]

I think Brad's on the side of those who would keep "the help" in some form of prison.